Dear all cricket commentators. Dew doesn’t fall. It forms on the ground.

139 female cricketers left the county game between 2024 and 2025 — an enormous talent drain. How did it happen? My article explains. wisdenblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/t...

Hampshire are pretty lucky to have Bjorn Fortuin released from the England v South Africa series to play on Blast finals day.

Tremendous scenes at Old Pauline CC where Prabhjot Singh Sandhu has taken a hat-trick for Shepperton CC, helped by the umpire miscounting the over and allowing a seventh ball.

What is this tie? BBC characters, especially in sitcoms, wear it a lot. They can’t all be Somerset members. Is it an old boys’ thing? Or a club?

Pre-order now! My beautiful, hand-written scoresheet of South Africa’s historic win in the World Test Championship final. Here’s what New Zealand’s win looked like. Visit cricketkit.org/scoresheets to pre-order. Kit Harris Scoresheets are the original — and best.

Okay then.

The commentators on ECN (Malta v Estonia T20I) have just confidently announced that the record for most sixes in a County Championship innings is held by Jarrod Kimber. @jarrodkimber.bsky.social

An awful thing to read. Josh and I were linked: him with his club’s all-time highest score (216), me with the record bowling figures. It is terrible to think that this man so carefree, so energetic, so warm, so handsome, has been taken from us, aged just 34. x.com/surreycricke...

The obvious choice, but even so, it does seem like a safety-first / continuity appointment. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Today I attended my county’s first professional women’s game. A last-ball win over a very strong opposition. I’m completely hooked. Suddenly I have two dozen more @somersetccc.bsky.social games to watch every season, and two dozen more players to call “ours”. I feel very lucky.

By my calculations: £52m for recreational game £14m + 51% equity for Big Eight £28m for other 10 counties £28m for MCC Total equity sold: £523m Total equity valued: £921m Beyond ECB’s wildest dreams. #TheHundred

Here is my finished hand-drawn infographic scorecard of India’s victory in the 2024 Twenty20 World Cup final. What do you think of it? You can get a full size (A2) version from my website: cricketkit.org/2024.