'… a new Test coach can come in and "complement" that so that the whole setup can become more than the sum of its parts. This is much better than the current scenario where all the parts are kept loose in a giant bin in the cargo hold of a Jawa sandcrawler.'

Very Perth day 2, second session areas from England. #FIFAWorldCup

I don't know who this commentator (or indeed player) is but the description of 'a cheeky footballer with mischievous ideas' is just delightful. It's how I wish I'd described David Warner - a cheeky cricketer with mischievous ideas. #FIFAWorldCup

England v India One-Off Women's Test, Day Four, featuring Bacchus off the long run #ENGvIND 🏏

England v India One-Off Women's Test, Day Three, featuring Hermes off the long run #ENGvIND 🏏

England v India One-Off Women's Test, Day Three, featuring Hermes off the long run #ENGvIND 🏏

I'd like to now see Ben Stokes captain the England Test team against Pakistan. #ENGvPAK 🏏

If I were going to sack an England coach, I wouldn't announce it in the middle of an England Test match.

Full credit to the ECB. Finally sacking McCullum because the women's team are being thrashed is a twist I did not see coming. #ENGvIND 🏏

England v India One-Off Women's Test, Day Two, featuring gaudiness and Morpheus off the long run #ENGvIND 🏏

Quite enjoyed that Gaudy spell of bowling. I'd be happy to see some more. #ENGvIND 🏏

Lord’s Cricket Ground: first look in Test cricket The pitch is typically two-paced at best, more frequently low and slow, and the playing area itself isn’t even level. Despite this, Lord’s hosted its first (women’s) Test match today. How did it shape up? www.kingcricket.co.uk/lords-cricke...

Feels like one of the great futile reviews. #ENGvIND 🏏

Before today's play starts, catch up on the most interesting* bits of yesterday's play here. #ENGvIND 🏏

Before today's play starts, catch up on the most interesting* bits of yesterday's play here. #ENGvIND 🏏

England v India One-Off Women’s Test, Day One, featuring displays of contrition, shows of support, Frank Castle and Morpheus off the long run #ENGvIND 🏏 newsletter.danliebke.com/p/england-v-...

I've slightly lost track. Is this the LAUNCH PHASE™ of the innings? #ENGvIND 🏏

I am officially pre-supporting the following individual players in this #ENGvIND Test: ENGLAND The Laurens INDIA Jemimah and Deepti NB Others may win me over with sufficiently comical antics during the match (eg a mankad)

More Test cricket! #ENGvIND 🏏

Final nail in the MCU coffin

Do our tickets include transport to the game?

Get ready for England v India at The Home of Very Belatedly Permitting Women To Do Things www.kingcricket.co.uk/get-ready-fo...

Can't even be fucked taking the conversion. Proper #Origin dominance.

Big fan of how Reece Walsh gestured exactly how he'd miss that conversion BEFORE he took it. Great vision. #Origin

I guess it'll be the second half then. #Origin

I always worry, just a little, that Liam Martin might have smuggled a switch blade onto the ground. #Origin

FUN FACT: The Queensland national anthem is the same as the Australian one, just completely out of time. #funfact #Origin

Excited to see in which half of tonight's State of #Origin match New South Wales will not bother to defend.

Excited to see in which half of tonight's State of #Origin match New South Wales will not bother to defend.

CBCT - Molineux Sensation The triumphant (?) return of the Can't Bowl, Can't Throw podcast Topics: - Australia winning the women's World Cup - The terrifying spectre of The Cricket Regulator™ - A classic game of Stars or Renegades or Both? - Plus, another thrilling Muller Award

CBCT - Molineux Sensation The triumphant (?) return of the Can't Bowl, Can't Throw podcast Topics: - Australia winning the women's World Cup - The terrifying spectre of The Cricket Regulator™ - A classic game of Stars or Renegades or Both? - Plus, another thrilling Muller Award

I’ve picked out some of my World Cup highlights. Let me know what I missed!

Always a hilarious shame when a team goes out of its way to get some properly corrupt cheating up and running and then still loses 4-1 in a humiliating display. #FIFAWorldCup

Watching the replay of the first innings of the World Cup Final now, and, in summary, there's been too much singing. #WWC2026

Final - England v Australia Women's T20 World Cup Report Card, featuring Morpheus off the short run, feet and wishing England luck #WWC2026

Ellyse Perry reporting once more some 'World Cup awareness' #WWC2026

Correct decision. Even though Ecclestone obviously caught that cleanly, we should always want to give Pez a longer innings. #CWC25 🏏

Won't be watching the final tonight because it starts too late for me to stay up and too early for me to get up. Regardless, let's just hope the better team wins. That would save a lot of unnecessary stress. #WWC2026

I'm a very casual watcher of soccer (or 'footkick' as it's more commonly known), so can someone more knowledgeable clarify if it's an actual rule or just the etiquette of the game for the commentators to be so laughably one-eyed, whining the entire match that the referee is against us. #FIFAWorldCup

Nat Sciver-Brunt, Heather Knight and the old school joy of bisection www.kingcricket.co.uk/nat-sciver-b...

Semi-Final Two - England v South Africa Women's T20 World Cup Report Card, featuring Morpheus off the short run #WWC2026

Massive fan of Travis Head becoming the number one Test batter in the world having not played a Test since January. What a remarkable batter he is.

Semi-Final One - Australia v West Indies Women's T20 World Cup Report Card, featuring dreams #WWC2026

I'm not sure I can stay awake long enough to watch the semifinal between Australia and the West Indies. So that's annoying. #WWC2026

Is this where I make my quadrennial, semi-serious case for penalty shootouts taking place *before* World Cup knockout matches? #FIFAWorldCup

“Who’d be a New Zealand bowler in 2026? Presumably everyone by the end of the year at this rate of attrition.”

this is very good

No paywall today, in honour of this mad series being done. #ENGvNZ 🏏

England v New Zealand, Third Test, Day Five, featuring upset people and sunsets #ENGvNZ 🏏

As always Dan captures the essence of Ben Stokes - the terror and the genius. Our son patriotically stormed out of Headingley 2019. As an Aussie, Stokes is one of my favourite cricketers of all time. We are a complicated household. #ENGvNZ open.substack.com/pub/danliebk...