I've enjoyed listening back to you and Ed on commentary on Saturday @mrscricket.bsky.social - thanks for the name checks for Chris and me. And apologies for not realising for the 1st 10 overs that the score was unreadable on the smaller board.

ONE DAY CUP: The Trouble With Bonus Points (TLDR: The Playing Conditions Are Wrong!)

I recall this view in September 1985 too @yelobeli.bsky.social @sidspid.bsky.social

Can't even "@" Warks on this post to ask them... Their website lets me buy non-refundable tickets for the women at Portland Road, when the forecast is dodgy, but has no information on facilities for spectators e.g. shelter @crickether.com @00childpodcast.bsky.social @womenscricblog.bsky.social

live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_s... First thought: ooh look, someone's added Meg Austin's middle initial. Pause. Second thought: oh yes, that was me.

@dankingdom96.bsky.social There was an unpublicised women's warm-up game at Taunton Vale yesterday featuring Somerset, Warwickshire and Hampshire players. Niamh Holland 101* (16x4), Bethan Ellis 77, Chloe Skelton 58* (43 balls, 8x4), Nancy Harman 43* (31 balls), Olivia Barnes 8-0-20-2

Alice Hill today drew level with Mollie Robbins as 4th highest wicket taker for @gloscricket.bsky.social (combined List A and T20): they each have 59 wickets. Charlie Phillips is second all time with 85 wickets.

Yesterday against Worcestershire, Becca Halliday (62) scored her first 50 for @gloscricket.bsky.social and Caitlin Belcher made her highest List A score (21*) and hit her first six for the county.

Georgie Cant hit 91 today for @gloscricket.bsky.social, her highest score and first List A fifty for the county. It's the highest score made by a Glos number 5, the 10th= highest overall, and her fifty off 45 balls is a Glos List A record.

Just one statistic from @gloscricket.bsky.social women's match against Sussex on Thursday: Meg Ahearne made her new highest score for the county of 31*. Mention for Becca Halliday who took a catch in the women's game and - on the other side of the boundary - in the following men's game too.

Charlie Phillips extends her lead as @gloscricket.bsky.social Women's leading T20 wicket-taker, now with 43

Charlotte Phillips moves to the top of the all-time @gloscricket.bsky.social women T20 batting averages, although helped a tiny bit to her average of 62.00 by the number of not outs

Regular reminder to fans, media, broadcasters & historians - you can't blindly rely on ESPNcricinfo's records for women's international or domestic cricket to be complete or accurate. There are numerous gaps in their database. Also potentially, a huge gap in the market. #cricket

@yelobeli.bsky.social Nice to see this chap supporting women's cricket today

Have you heard our new episode? People seem to like it!

According to those with access to tracking data, Filer's fourth over was indeed the fastest recorded in women's cricket. Overall, her four overs today ranked, 7th, 4th, 12th and 1st on the list. #ENGvIND

A new 5th wicket T20 record for @gloscricket.bsky.social women of 58 between Prarthana Reddy and Emily Geach. This beats 53* Jess Hazell and Melissa Story put on against Sussex earlier this month. Alice Bird took 2-17, her best bowling figures for Glos.

Statistical highlights of @gloscricket.bsky.social women's team's victory over Kent today: 7 Kent batters were bowled, a new bowling record for Glos in a T20. Prarthana Reddy hit her highest T20 score for the county of 45. Liv Daniels' 3-13 are her best bowling figures for Glos

Statistical highlights for @gloscricket.bsky.social women's team today: 7 of the Gloucestershire team - Georgie Cant (29), Melissa Story (45), Prarthana Reddy (29), Meg Ahearne (14), Liv Daniels (2), Charlie Phillips (13) and Alice Bird (11*) - made or equalled their highest T20 scores for Glos

This came as a pleasant surprise - I was very kindly offered a chance to score for @warwickshireccc.bsky.social women yesterday on finals day at Taunton

"Cricket feels like life in a way other sports, I think, do not, quite" Gideon Haigh on @anniechave.bsky.social's new book www.cricketetal.com/p/this-crick...

@geofftech.bsky.social @mrtimdunn.bsky.social

Thrilled to finally have the new Rail Atlas arrive through the post today @joebrownlondon.bsky.social - but still keeping the old one!

@lloydsbankinggroup.bsky.social I bank with you. Please stay at the bottom of this chart

Our latest webinar is LIVE! Thanks to Hannah Thompson-Radford and Matt Kingdom for their paper “(un)forgotten voices- exploring the history of women’s cricket in Somerset”:

All of them played in domestic cricket in England in 2024. The ACS is hoping to produce a women's cricket annual showing stats for all players who have played in major domestic cricket world-wide in 2024. Information keeping for women players is way behind what it is for men. Any help appreciated.

@petegcricket.bsky.social I saw your request for dates of birth for women domestic players. For the UK are they current players? Presumably none are from last year's regional teams?

If He’s 10 foot tall, presumably He doesn’t need a ladder to paint the corners.

I dreamt that David Gower was quizzing me to name all the years he toured Australia with England. On waking I thought "hold on, those answers were wrong, yet he said they were right". I think a little bit less of both of us now.

I asked DeepSeek three questions: - How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims? - Is Taiwan part of China? - What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s? Here are DeepSeek's answers:

Happy Cricketmas / Creasemas!

Second time today that I've had to make do with posting a caveated stat for fastest women's ODI hundred, because the available records are so patchy. Would be great if the major stats sites, boards, ICC etc, worked together to improve the publicly available information. #INDvWI

I worked on BBC Horrible Histories, and wrote some of the Stupid Deaths sketches Without doubt, my faves were Ancient Greek intellectuals: e.g, Empedocles who jumped in an active volcano trying to become a god… Or Philitas of Kos who starved due to obsessively needing to correct grammar errors👇

I've got my Angel for the top of the Christmas tree.

The Railway Series by Rev Awdry. Obviously.

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

Got to love a cricketer who pays this much attention to their stats

How can one man keep pulling off blinders like this?

Some thoughts from @i-am-the-dad.bsky.social as the Women's County fixtures are announced... noughtiechildpodca.wixsite.com/my-site/post...

In case you missed this exclusive the first time round.... Thrilled to see Somerset have signed Charlie

Our two County Championship fixtures at Cheltenham next summer... 🌹 Lancashire (Tue 22 July) ⚔️ Middlesex (Tue 29 July) #BecomeGlorious

It might be only 4 degrees outside but the groundstaff are in shorts. It’s the law

Almost all of Surrey's Women's home One Day Cup matches to be played at... Beckenham in Kent!

you expect me to stand up for myself when I can't even choose the mean dialog options in video games

I'm not so wild about him now, but Ian Botham. Him losing the captaincy in 1981 made the TV news, and the soap opera around it drew me in, so when I caught sight of the Headingley test on TV, I thought I'd watch and see what it was all about... And then he made miracles happen

Whoever wrote the lyrics “then like my dreams, they fade and die” has never seen a bubble.

I live locally to TB so would love them to play all matches there but I can see the advantage of sharing the women's game to a wider audience that playing at Derbyshire and Leicestershire bring.

Latest scorebook perusals have shown that during his 228 for @somersetccc.bsky.social against Glos in 1980, Ian Botham brought up his 200 from between 121 and 137 balls, which would put it in the fastest 14 of all time. Shame we can't be more precise.

Careful with those controversial quotes BBC