SJA award winner for Sports Journalism. Long time Test Match Special cricket commentator. Patron @_mccfoundation. Insta/TikTok alison_mitchell00
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Cricket Scotland follow ECB & CA in actively declining bi-laterals or tri-series, or collaborating on training/facilities with the Afghanistan Cricket Board outside of ICC events due to the situation for women & girls in the country.
Cricket Scotland Statement: Engagement With Afghanistan Cricket Board
➡️ cricketscotland.com/Article/…
Khawaja has spoken, Warner has spoken. The bowling unit needs to speak. Will they stand by their carefully worded statement of 2021? Feel the public want more than that. Managers, lawyers and CA will be speed reading Sabr when it drops.
Quiet news day coming up… 🧨 l#sandpapergate @danbrettig
“It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us.” - Usman Khawaja on sandpapergate theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…
“You have the freedom to choose where you play.. which competitions you participate in. But that freedom also comes with a responsibility to understand the systems you may be helping to support.” Firooza Amiri on foreign players in the APL #BBCStumped 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99…
“Taking part in this league without acknowledging what is happening to Afghan women risks sending the message to the world that their suffering can simply be ignored.”
Nahida Sapan, capt of the Afghanistan Refugee Women’s XI on foreign players in the APL
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99…
What a fun afternoon this was. Always a bit of a reunion vibe for ex-players & current and former media alike. @CricketMediaUK
What a day at the @Vitality_UK 80th Anniversary Awards Lunch! 🥂
Thank you to the @HomeofCricket for hosting a fantastic event and congratulations to this year's winners!
Also thanks to sponsors @JMFinnWealth @nvplaycricket, @MCCOfficial, Fullers and Borders Distillery 🙏
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A reflective Ryan Rickleton after he helped South Africa to the series win over Australia. (And no, he and Mulder haven’t “formally” discussed the run out yet!)
Listen via the BBC Stumped pod👇🏼 📱
"I didn't sleep too much the night before..." 💤
🇿🇦 Ryan Rickelton explains how it felt making a century alongside school friend Wiaan Mulder
Plus, is Rashid Khan the greatest T20 bowler ever?
🔊 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99…
Congratulations to Richard the winner, and huge congratulations to runner up @RafNicholson for The Women in Whites, helping to fill a massive gap in cricket literature.
This year’s Derek Hodgson Book Award goes to Richard Whitehead for Victory in Australia: The Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes Triumph 1954-55 📖
@Vitality_UK | #CMCAwards
This man, a total star ⭐️ @CrickMediaUK
This year’s Peter Smith Award for outstanding presentation of cricket to the public goes to Danny Reuben, England men's media manager from 2016 until earlier this summer.
Thank you and congratulations, Danny 👏
@Vitality_UK | #CMCAwards
An absorbing 5 day Test, and an emotional win for SA. What a journey Simon Harmer has been on in particular. Australia’s batting continues to be vulnerable. Much to address for them, as SA take top spot in the rankings. Hope the whole country celebrates with them #SAvAus
We pick up here on the theory that tri-series are more absorbing than playing the same team over 5-7 matches. 🎧 📱 👇🏼
🌹Could Jimmy Anderson's legendary career be over after his Lancashire release?
🏴 Tammy Beaumont lifts the lid on life after international cricket retirement
🏏 Can tri-series' save ODI cricket, or is a bigger shake-up needed?
🔊 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99…
Even the Aussies have sympathy for Jimmy here.. and Tammy Beaumont tells us about a surprise encounter with Sachin Tendulkar #BBCStumped 🎧 📱 👇🏼
🌹Could Jimmy Anderson's legendary career be over after his Lancashire release?
🏴 Tammy Beaumont lifts the lid on life after international cricket retirement
🏏 Can tri-series' save ODI cricket, or is a bigger shake-up needed?
🔊 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99…
Have we just been seduced by a couple of jaw dropping victories by Sri Lanka & Pakistan, or is it time for more ODI tri-series, like yesteryear? Somehow it all feels a bit more interesting #PAKvENG
Simply sensation from Shadab. Haris a hero for Pakistan too. England crushed - again. #PakvEng
DRS saves the day - for the moment - wow. Shadab had no idea he hit it! Any other circumstance other than last wicket he would have walked with no review. #PakvEng
Staggering stuff from Harry Brook - what have we just seen?! Fastest EVER double hundred in ODIs that’s what. Array of shots out of this world 🤯🤩
Anyone who witnessed Temba Bavuma’s first Test century will remember the wave of emotion around Newlands. By his fifth, a career best, he’s a leader by name as well as deed. Loved this in depth chat with him just before SA became World Test Champions: youtu.be/U3BCRtIb2sY?is=3xdq…
A little thing on bad light and the pink ball… Something I’ve been saying for a while. Full reel 👉🏼 instagram.com/reel/DeZi_KGKT…
You always hope players do well. Cummins cites Nic Maddinson as having “shown good form” but not a huge body of work behind a player whose last FC game was March 2025 due to having chemo. A story of recovery & resilience, and now a first Test for him since 2016. #SAvAus
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