We go again: 1. Duckett 2. Haines 3. Root 4. Brook 5. Bethell 6. Smith+ 7. Stokes* 8. Atkinson 9. Carse (Archer) 10. Leach 11. Tongue #Ashes 🏏 #AUSENG #AUSvENG

We go again: 1. Duckett 2. Haines 3. Root 4. Brook 5. Bethell 6. Smith+ 7. Stokes* 8. Atkinson 9. Carse (Archer) 10. Leach 11. Tongue #Ashes 🏏 #AUSENG #AUSvENG

Orthodox Christmas on January 7 is widely celebrated across Central Asia as a symbol of faith tradition and interreligious harmony https://ow.ly/xYxy50XSXJq #OrthodoxChristmas #CentralAsia #ReligiousTolerance #ChristmasTraditions #CulturalCelebration

ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE: FIFA:

🇺🇦🏏 | My book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' is the story of some tough and eccentric sportspeople – and how they saved many of those around them from Russia's invasion in 2022. Details | Where to buy 💙📚 ⬇️ www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

Great news everyone! By sheer force of public demand, we have opened up our merchandise shop for a new pre-order window! Jerseys, hats, hoodies, and more. Worldwide shipping, even to the USA. All profits support our development. Shop link: s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket

My author's copies of my new book, 'The Return of Russia' have arrived. The book will be published in the UK and US on January 27 by @yalebooks.bsky.social. I have events planned in London and other parts of the UK in Feb and March. Details to follow #Russia #history #Putin

At 10 overs an hour there's a real risk Australia won't be in the lead by stumps. #Ashes 🏏 #AUSvENG

– I bought a new pair of trousers just south of Manchester. – Altrincham? – No, they fit fine as they are.

'Game's gone', vols. 2975 and 2976: Fulham's captain scores to equalise, celebrates with the fans – but he's already taken his team's shirt off and thrown it on the ground. A bit later, a Man City player is perfectly rightly given offside, so arrogantly waves his finger at the assistant referee...

First short video now up on my new Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇦🇺 Rainbow lorikeet in Sydney, Australia. Please like and subscribe! Tomorrow: Ulan-Ude, Buryatia. youtube.com/shorts/kzPH5...

(This isn't my big one @levparikian.bsky.social and @bernardhughes.bsky.social but it's all you're getting.) I once hung around in Miles Jupp's peripheral vision at an event, waiting for him to finish a conversation so I could say hello. They kept talking. He saw me awkwardly give up and walk away.

Dushanbe these days is sadly filled with smog. But the rare clear days still reveal the stunning views that I grew up seeing literally out of my bedroom windows. Just 10 years ago, before the current senseless urban redevelopment, this is what one saw from anywhere in my hometown.

Today, we have a rare treat for you. Our national team's coach, Bala Kamallakharan, sat down with the Bhai Waugh podcast to talk everything about Icelandic cricket. 40 minutes of New Year fun. Link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMLU...

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Not many better scorecard entries than Labuschagne c Root b Tongue 8. #Ashes 🏏

Not many better scorecard entries than Labuschagne c Root b Tongue 6. #Ashes 🏏

Ok so my own Youtube channel bombed – but I have promised my son that I'll make his latest video go viral over #Christmas... There's a golden retriever in this one. You know what to do @weratedogs.com 🙏🏼 youtube.com/shorts/8sFPM...

Ok so my own Youtube channel bombed – but I have promised my son that I'll make his latest video go viral over #Christmas... There's a golden retriever in this one. You know what to do @weratedogs.com 🙏🏼 youtube.com/shorts/8sFPM...

My Christmas wish for 2025, and New Year's resolution for 2026, is to build an audience for my #travel videos, mostly from Central Asia. Take a look at my first batch on my Youtube channel '20 Second Travels' – & please share / tag anyone who might like to subscribe! m.youtube.com/channel/UC5F...

Ask Santa for a copy of 'Getting Out', and keep some beautiful sporting stories alive into 2026: 🏏 The cricketing refugee kids 🏏 The sniper who used to keep wicket 🏏 The batter who saved lives in Bucha Shortlisted @ this year's @sportsbookawards.bsky.social: pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

Top SEVEN, unless you think Musk has more money than Putin.

My Christmas wish for 2025, and New Year's resolution for 2026, is to build an audience for my #travel videos, mostly from Central Asia. Take a look at my first batch on my Youtube channel '20 Second Travels' – & please share / tag anyone who might like to subscribe! m.youtube.com/channel/UC5F...

Ask Santa for a copy of 'Getting Out', and keep some beautiful sporting stories alive into 2026: 🏏 The cricketing refugee kids 🏏 The sniper who used to keep wicket 🏏 The batter who saved lives in Bucha Shortlisted @ this year's @sportsbookawards.bsky.social: pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Tajikistan condemned the killing of a Tajik schoolboy in Russia as an ethnically motivated attack marking a rare public rebuke amid rising xenophobia toward migrants https://ow.ly/a6gR50XL41K #Tajikistan #Russia #Migration #HateCrime #CentralAsia

How was his catching? #Ashes 🏏

I make that 22 minutes between TNT Sports broadcasting a tribute to those who died at Bondi this week, and an advert for discounted Yeezys.

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland in winter: The view from the summit of Beinn Ìme. Please like and subscribe. Next up: one more from Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/Ni-jY...

Looking for a present for a sports fan? Or just a great true cricketing story for between #Ashes 🏏Tests? How about the only book in the world that features both Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Jonty Rhodes? Shortlisted at this year's @sportsbookawards.bsky.social: pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Beauty of Scotland: The walk down from Beinn Ìme. Please like and subscribe! Next up: two more from Beinn Ìme... youtube.com/shorts/8Kpyz...

FUNDRAISER £977/3000 🎯 Help a week-long sailing expedition where veterans work as a crew, learn to handle catamaran & rediscover confidence far from hospital walls. Our target is £3,000 to cover the charter hire for Fierce Calm's boat. If you can, please donate /boost www.goodhub.com/go/healing-u...

Sending all possible love to Jewish friends today

An ideal 🎄gift for those cold days, dark nights: revisit a warm Scottish summer 🌞in the company of Seve Ballesteros and the 1984 Open Championship. Buy it here: bit.ly/3xrZjJi @PitchPublishing #Christmas #golf #books #Seve #SeveBallesteros

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇹🇷 Süleymaniye mosque, Istanbul, Turkey. Please like and subscribe! Next up: Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/pkT92...

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Looking for a present for a sports fan? Or just a great true cricketing story for between #Ashes 🏏Tests? How about the only book in the world that features both Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Jonty Rhodes? Shortlisted at this year's @sportsbookawards.bsky.social: pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇰🇬 Theatre dance in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Please like and subscribe! Next up: more from Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/canTD...

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇰🇬 Theatre dance in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Please like and subscribe! Next up: more from Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/canTD...

Read all about #Uzbekistan in Silk Mirage - order your copy from Bloomsbury website, using the code SILK20 to get a 20% discount www.bloomsbury.com/uk/silk-mira...

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇰🇬 At the bazaar in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan. Please like and subscribe! Next up: more from Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/WGX_v...

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇰🇬 At the bazaar in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan. Please like and subscribe! Next up: more from Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/WGX_v...

Colin Cow-drey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Moo-hammad Abbas 🇵🇰 Habib Bull Bashar 🇧🇩 Horn Pollock 🇿🇦 Ed Cow-an 🇦🇺 Aberdeen Angus Atkinson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #CowCricketers 🐮

I'd love to make more videos from Central Asia – but how do I go viral? 🫓 Blind ranking plates of baursaki? 🌙 Stay quiet until you see a better Uzbek mosque? 🇹🇯 Five times Dushanbe's murals broke the internet? 🎤 Could I sing Kyrgyz songs, and call myself an akynfluencer? jonathancampion.com

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Kyrgyzstan opens its winter season in Karakol with festivals new activities and rising global tourist interest as the resort cements its status as Central Asia’s top winter destination https://ow.ly/Lo6J50XFQHY #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol #WinterTourism #IssykKul #CentralAsiaTravel #VisitKyrgyzstan

Looking for a present for a sports fan? Or a great cricket story to read between #Ashes Tests? With tales of Kyiv vs. Kharkiv T20s, the wicketkeeper who became a sniper, and some cricketing refugees – shortlisted at this year's @sportsbookawards.bsky.social: pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

This map says so much about Mongolians. More would leave for Ireland and Czech Republic than would think of China or Russia – and South Korea is the dream...

New short video on my Youtube channel, '20 Second Travels': 🇲🇳 Buddhist monastery in the Mongolian desert. Please like and subscribe! Next up: Kyrgyzstan, Buryatia, Turkey and Scotland... youtube.com/shorts/Bw77s...