Megan Ponsford

Sports historian especially passionate about cricket and the Melbourne Demons.

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@GoldenAgeCrickt What a fabulous photo!

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@klioness Happy for you! We sat behind a family and the dad said it was first time his daughters (about 7&9) had seen a win. Of course, disappointing for myself & the MFC faithful but happy for the mob in front

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Thank you Ryder family for these incredible images of the 1935/36 Australian cricket team ‘at play’ in Patiala!

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Incorporating some recently-unearthed images, my article ‘Playing the Colonial Charade: The 1935/36 Australians in India’ is out now in The Yorker. It discusses the team’s transforming perspective towards Shikhars and other colonial pastimes. 
@MelbCCLibrary #AUSvINDIA

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@DiabeticDadUK Looking forward to your updates. I’m going down the rheumatology path! I have bilateral stiffness (and pain) pretty much in all my arm joints - fingers, elbows and shoulders. Surgery to fix a frozen shoulder (and a trigger finger) helped but I’m not keen to have more operations

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@GreigNorman2 @allanholloway @PaulAtk52540619 @realomerlatif 100 years ago in December!

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@PictureSporting WH’s condition was only detected when he unsuccessfully tried to enlist in the RAF during WWII. It was always considered that he had a mild form of the condition but posthumous research has revealed he had an extreme form of it - couldn’t differentiate between green & red!

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@PictureSporting @aspitweets Much appreciated! Melb CC had one as early as 1882/83

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@PictureSporting Thanks for that. Any known problem with colour blind cricketers at grounds without them v grounds with screens? I guess it’s impossible to gets statistics from either end at grounds with one screen? I’ll let you know how my research proceeds

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@mahenrr @PictureSporting Hi, hope everything’s good with you?

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@AndrewGigacz Not WooHoo!

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@dbridie What an adventure you’re having!

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@plalor I’ve been a few times and it’s one of my favourite places on earth! Very much looking forward to getting back

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@fredfertang What a tragic yet powerful image!

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@DiabeticDadUK Absolutely!

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@AndrewGigacz How lovely, Gigs

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@rhettrospective Yep, I did, regarding some RFC images that you may be interested in. Will send you an email

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@PictureSporting Grandfather W.H didn’t have a great series and spent most of the tour suffering or recovering from a nasty dose of tonsillitis