Longest to reach 100 County Championship matches:

9 553 days WH Rowlands (Glos) 1901-1927
9 504 GHS Fowke (Leics) 1899- 925
8 722 JM Anderson (Lancs) 2002-2026

An "All Streams" button on a website

A website screenshot showing several simultaneous live cricket matches.

In a slightly crazy "because-we-can" update, I've added an "All Streams" button on desktop browsers, which takes you full screen with all live streams playing (muted, mercifully). In case you can't get quite enough live cricket.

Bad decision. That others will follow if it works

And best (only) marketing tool county cricket has will disappear.

IMO 🏏 actually has a big advantage having an established 'home' on YouTube

Ubitquity, sharability, community, clips etc

(LTV - Free for members, £20 non-mem)

Late in the evening OTD 1912 RMS Titanic hits one of the icebergs shown on this June 1912 chart of the North Atlantic. The Bodleian holds the Marconi archive and before the ship sank telegrams were sent both from the ship and to others in the area like this one, calling for help. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

JD Vance killed the Pope, the Iran peace deal, and Victor Orban's campaign

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.

I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

We noticed that calling Congress wasn’t moving the needle, so we shifted tactics and started pressuring businesses directly. Those businesses are now posting publicly and lobbying Congress and that happened because of you. Your voice is stronger than you think. Thank you.

One of my neighbors has a tree in their front yard that had a big limb nearly break off during the blizzard, and now even though it's cracked in half and lying on the ground, it's in a defiant full bloom.

Same, tree. Same.

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱

No, it’s not AI.

Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team.

📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

So good to have county cricket back, and to see that it’s got quite the presence here on Bluesky.

Hopefully that will continue to build across the season.

🏏🏏🏏

#thecricket
#countycricket

Matt Critchley currently averages 173 with the bat and 1.5 with the ball this season. Keep that up and he may get to carry the drinks for the Lions.

Happy Easter

A bride and groom.

A band marches through the streets.

I was already so melancholy about leaving New Orleans tomorrow and then I chanced upon a wedding second line while I was en route to dinner with @scottynola.bsky.social — and noted how much the locals were loving it. I don’t want to go! But I must.

The moon rises over St Francis of Assisi Church, State street, New Orleans

Perfect Pitch (From Choir Stalls to Cricket Balls) - BBC Sounds Eleanor Oldroyd explores the unlikely connections between cricket and choral music.

I enjoyed listening to this last night. From 2022 and about the links between choral music and cricket. There's certainly a lot of it on here!
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#Cricket

“The Forest Service is being dismantled. Your business runs on these lands. We need you to speak out publicly, lobby your congressional representatives, and be ready to fund the legal fight that is coming. Silence is a choice. Your customers are watching.”

Apologies, it seems the posts with details of the live streams aren’t working this morning, and I’m not able to take a look until this evening. The streams are showing up on the site though (countycricket.live).

Durham Cricket The official YouTube page of Durham Cricket, bringing all the latest highlights & videos from Banks Homes Riverside!

YouTube links County Cricket Division 2

Derbyshire vs Worcs
youtube.com/@derbyshiret...

Durham v Kent
youtube.com/@durhamcrick...

Middlesex v Gloucs
youtube.com/@middlesexcc...

Northants v Lancashire
www.youtube.com/live/-1p7OGO...

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#Cricket

YouTube cricket Division 1

Glamorgan vs Yorks
youtube.com/@glamorgancr...

Somerset v Notts (live now)
www.youtube.com/live/rSm5dcg...

Hants v Essex (10.45)
www.youtube.com/live/r-Rq7gz...

Leics v Sussex
www.youtube.com/live/fyWd7DA...

Warks v Surrey
www.youtube.com/live/TLSKvSY...

#Cricket
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Good morning. Happy County championship day

Here we go...County Championship Cricket and @kevinhowells.bsky.social is back!!!
#BBCCricket
#Cricket
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No 178, Apr 2: The Grumbler's County Cricket Newsletter 🟣 Previews galore 🟢 Looking at the Championship race and Round One 🟡 Will the England camp be watching? 🟠 Lots of late player moves 🔴 Considering counties in crisis 🔵 Replacements trialed

🏏 NEW County Cricket newsletter. Pls share and enjoy
🟣 Previews galore
🟢 Looking at the Championship race and Round One
🟡 Will the England camp be watching?
🟠 Lots of late player moves
🔴 Considering counties in crisis
🔵 Replacements trialled

countycricket.substack.com/p/no-178-apr...

These woollen chitons (or long tunics) have - incredibly - survived from Roman Egypt due to the dry climate. Amazing finds showing a wonderful insight into past fashions.

🕰️5th-7th century AD

🏛️📷Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

A Day in Class With Plato, the Melania Trump–Mandated Robot Teacher The first lady told us to imagine a future of humanoid instruction … so I did.

this may be my magnum opus (I know I say this once or twice a year but this is definitely one of those times)

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Holy New York.