Right-wing news in America discussed how the Minnesota ICE shooting victim had "pronouns in her bio", in a "grotesque" report. "This is how radicalised American media and politics is becoming," says Lewis Goodall www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...

His position is surely untenable. I’ll disciplined batters Awful bowling tactics Poor preparation Lack of specialist coaches Hard for players to lose their place, no jeopardy for players Non coherent spin tactic All this the responsibility of the management www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Woke up at just the right time to hear Bethell get his first 100! Though one of my AirPods ran out of battery and the second was hanging on :) I’ll remember where I was for sure ! #TheAshes

Happy Xmas everyone, from Melbourne. Here’s to a Boxing Day test win :)

Xmas is early in Australia, and what an awesome present I’ve got. It’s a sad sad story, but a great one :)

Hello Melbourne! Our hotel was upgraded and this is the view from our new one! Not bad eh :)

@zaltzcricket.bsky.social on great from in Melbourne, despite what people on the front row think :)

A brave fight by England today, but we didn’t play well enough to win. Too many mistakes made, not least of which not playing a specialist spinner, I just can’t get my round it

Another grim cricket day in Adelaide, but I did get to stand on the hill and look at the amazing scoreboard close up. Oh, and tonight there was a rainbow :) Other than that, struggling for positives!

I’ve watched the 2nd Jamie Smith Snicko debacle about 20 times now. How that was given out is just beyond me. I get that technology can fail, but how a professional umpire decided that he hit that, when the ball was miles from the bat is just unforgivable.

If Trescothic says as little in the dressing room as he does in press conferences, it’s no wonder England are as bad as they are right now. Also, the batting coach hasn’t spoken to one of his batters who was given a shocking decision, that boggles the mind

Well that was one of the more depressing days of test cricket I’ve seen from England. This is surely about as bad is it can get!

An amazing day in Adelaide, honours about even. A record breaking attendance, but boy was it hot, and about to get even hotter

Could barely sleep last night on the eve of the Adelaide test! Can’t wait to take my seat in the oval later today, though the predicted 35C isn’t something I’m relishing!!!

Was just hanging out having coffee in Adelaide and here are these two! yup, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Stark!

Security guard at the Adelaide oval let me into the Bradman collection, even though it was closed. On my own all the lights off, but despite that, it was great. Here is the bat he scored 334 at Headingley in 1930

My first view of the Adelaide oval

After an epic journey, we’ve made it to Adelaide. Dark when we got here, but it looks kinda nice

No doubt FIFA will buckle to this pressure, but this is exactly the match that should have a pride celebration. There will be thousands if not millions within Iran and Egypt who this would mean so much to www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Maybe it’s about time we stopped all the amplification of the racist, bigoted, hate filled shit that flies out of the mouths of the politicians who rely on this to gain airtime and move the debate in whatever direction they want.

I suspect we’ve seen the last of Wood playing for England, at least in the test team. A tremendous bowler and person, plagued by injury. Some real highs to his career and I reckon all those recoveries from injury take a special person to keep going www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

I mean, it’s really not complicated! Pitch the ball up and let the ball and the pitch do the work. Cricket is an old game, and it’s never changed. The madness of bowling bouncers for hours on end, mixed with the crazy belief you can hit every ball for 4 is a deadly mix. #Ashes

Strange what happens when you pitch the ball up! Who would have thought that actually bowling properly would ever get wickets! #Ashes

Root clearly doesn’t want to be on TV interview! Should make the bowlers or captain front up, it’s them who’ve let the team down, not Root

A shocking days cricket for England. This is a really good England team, but if the management and captain implement the wrong tactics, it’s just wasted, and that’s what has happened in both tests on this tour!

This is a shocking bowling performance from England! JUST PITCH IT UP!!!!!!! #Ashes

Amazing, imaging pitching it up and taking a wicket! Who could have imagined it!

One bowler has had success in this match, he barely bowled a short ball! This is just awful awful bowling from England, brainless

There really has been some brainless batting by some England players today. The model for success is stood at the non strikers end at the moment! Head down, no rash shots!

So happy for Root! I’ll never see a better English batter I don’t think. I just hope he pulls out a century in Adelaide and or Melbourne so I can see a century in the flesh

Well, I’ll settle for that from the first session! Could have been so much worse!

What the hell!!! A Starc over without a wicket!!!

We are at the point where England celebrate balls where we don’t lose a wicket!

I’ve taken days off work to watch the first two tests and am going to the other side of the world to watch matches 3 & 4 and this is the mess the series is in already! And we are less than 3 overs into the 7 session of the series!

Honestly! I’m almost lost for words!!!!!!!

Morning to all the English cricket fans! Hope you all got more sleep than me. I got about 2 hours, max! Just too excited. Won the toss and bat, no Cummins and no Lyon. Let’s just hope we are still batting by stumps #Ashes #TheAshes 🏏

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Wow !

Bloody hell!!! Just seen this, hadn’t thought about him for ages, then read the article on him in the paper at the weekend. One of our better batters during some dark days for England cricket. I had no idea he’d struggled so much since retiring! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Just seen a video on TikTok of FBI director Kash Patel. He is wearing a Liverpool football club tie!!

This is it then, here we go. #TheAshes

That’s a shocker of a DRS! Spike was tiny and nowhere near when the ball passed the bat. Identical one for Australia given not out yesterday! #TheAshes

I applaud positive batting, but shot selection is still important. Be positive playing the correct shots, not playing the wrong shots. Stop playing at wide balls and driving good length balls. #TheAshes

This isn’t going to day 3! #TheAshes

Never underestimate the power of England to manufacture a batting collapse at any time! #TheAshes

The ball just isn’t there to drive! Stop driving at balls that aren’t half volleys! Just shocking shot selection! #TheAshes

Pope is so frustrating, clearly an excellent player, but then plays such shocking shots like that. #TheAshes

I am utterly exhausted, but don’t want to miss a single ball of this test. My plan yesterday was to sleep during the afternoon and night, but just couldn’t get off. Nocturnal living isn’t easy when the cricket is so good :) #TheAshes

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