If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Big ups for the Blue Jays admin

🏏 A little bit of history as 🇲🇳 Mongolia get their first win in international cricket. The Women's team beat Bahrain by 3 wickets in the ACC Premier Cup!

This amazing version of Purple Rain by the Waterboys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsT...

I have questions.

If the number three isn't ready for the second ball of the innings then they should be out. Pathetic for CAN to apologise too. Back your players!

#HappyPrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈😉

A 3rd 'timed out' in international cricket in the NEP 🇳🇵 v BHU 🇧🇹 match at the ACC Premier Cup 1st time in WT20Is, 2nd time in WT20s #cricket 🏏 www.icc-cricket.com/matches/2711...

Resistance takes all shapes and forms.

So with some pretty fucking extreme racism in the mainstream now in UK politics im sure nothing untoward will come from the fact the EHRC just opened the door to “being uncomfortable with sharing a space with certain people” being a fine reason to segregate people

It would have been nicer if we'd just stayed at home.

Sit on it and bounce up and down until everything fits in

For those claiming that the long EU entry queues are the EU’s revenge for Brexit, remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on those entering the EU. It then put us outside.

trans rights and women’s rights are not in opposition, they are in fact two fronts of the same war, and cis women should support trans folk not just because it’s the morally correct thing to do but also because an attack on trans folk is an attack on us

I guess we know what tournament Bangladesh have got as compensation for missing the T20 World Cup.

Bahrain only made 10 changes, but still managed to beat Hong Kong. These results do suggest that the development of cricket within the Gulf States beyond the immigrant population is significant.

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

Oman men with 11 changes from their last game, win their opening match of the Asian Games qualifier against Singapore. Asian Games requires players to be passport holders, with most subcontinental players who normally represent Oman don't have.

Eighteen teams taking part in the qualification for the Women's Asian Cup, beginning on Wednesday. I suspect this may be the most teams ever to take part in an international women's cricket tournament.

Every time I see this grotesque far right scaremongering , it sickens me even more that the BBC have been such a help in making this extremism a viable possibility while ITV and Ant&Dec assisted in making Farage a celebrity

Compare and contrast today’s T20I results. Nepal Women v China Women - China win by 5 wickets (DLS) Nepal Men v China Men - Nepal win by 221 runs.

An author asked me how I dealt with bad newspaper reviews for my books - i explained “easy, as only one of my books has received a proper newspaper review - normally weird received a review in The Psychologist (and one from an anti trans activist who was then invited to a party for Monkey Cage)

Thailand and Malaysia have qualified for the women’s cricket tournament at the Asian Games later this year. Thailand qualified by beating China by 83 runs in their qualifier semi-final, with Malaysia sneaking past Nepal by 2 wickets in their semi-final.

So, as the guy who had a podcast called Be Reasonable for more than a decade, I do want to point out I have nothing to do with the *pro* child abuse campaign... of the same name. www.bereasonableengland.org Hitting kids is wrong, you bunch of bloody weirdos.

Try telling someone from 20 years ago that Kenya would struggle to get past Rwanda and Botswana in the first stage of qualifying. The team that went to the ODI World Cup semi-final. That played the first T20 World Cup. That at one point was being suggested for future Test status.

The gambling chat underneath live cricket streams is really completely out of control.

I feel we need to talk about the Apple News Rugby League logo.

As a relatively recent Baseball Sicko, one thing I am still grappling with is how to follow and enjoy a sport for 162 games when my favorite team makes me insane with rage on a daily basis. How do you guys do it and stay mentally healt—wait, okay, I see the answer.

Oh this is very, very good. Rage against the machine.

This conversation circulated when ODI status was first expanded in 2006, but in the light of everyone having T20I status and the proposed expansion of ODI status to 32 teams it might be worth having again. Should players be able to represent different teams in each format?

Unsure which is more surprising, the fact that Finland had a pop magazine called STUMP or that the Fast Show's Jazz Club presenter (you know, the one who says "niiice!!") appears to have actually existed

At the cinema to watch Mandalorian & Grogu. A couple of kids being annoying but as they seem to be with big Eorl Crabtree, the former England international Rugby League player who is sat behind me, I don't think I'll kick up much of a fuss.

I think you'll find that's a matter for the courts.

Trump has had 23 golf days at his resorts this year, and now says he’s too busy at work for his son’s wedding

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

How do you take people's rights away compassionately? What a cunt this man is.

If you kowtow to one group of bigots, you kowtow to them all. This won't end with trans people.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Replace the word "trans" with the word "black" in this and it's very clear how horrible this situation is.

Probably all Le Monde articles about the UK start: "Au Royaume-Uni, l’incroyable fiasco" before going on to whichever particular one they are writing about today.

The 'net migration is falling yet British people think it is rising' thing is less performatively baffling if the media were prepared to acknowledge that when the Reform crowd talk about 'immigrants' they mean 'people who aren't white'

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

Always enjoy chatting to @rodlyall.bsky.social whose excellent book on the ICC is up for an award We chat about the ICC, a dystopian cricket future and our experiences covering Estonian cricket www.cricketfj.com/p/q-and-a-ro...

They say the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. But personally I think it was Dominos convincing the world it’s reasonable to pay £40 for a pizza.

the fuck it will

Late to the party, but a great piece by @firdosem.bsky.social on cricket in Indonesia! www.espncricinfo.com/story/bats-b...

Croatia's Connor Carroll today became only the sixth man to score 150+ in a T20I, with an unbeaten 150 (out of 199-2) against Switzerland. It's the joint 5th highest score in men's T20Is, and the joint second highest by an associate male player.

there's a reason this question is being posed by Fanduel Sportsbook. if you answered B, they're advertising to you

The question about why Starmer and Labour are so hated is perhaps one of the simplest questions to answer in British politics