Tim Wigmore

✍️ journalist for @TelegraphSport 📚 Author of Test Cricket: A History, Times Sports Book of the Year - - and other books

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

The 3pm Saturday blackout for UK football matches has endured since the 1960s, and been seen as an essential way to support the whole football pyramid and protect attendances.

But the blackout is likely to end when the new TV deals begin in 2029

https://t.co/CWKnotvJGB

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Temba Bavuma's defining innings.

He's now averaging 54 as captain, compared to 34 before.

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

@YouthFtbl @SCFCJosh96 yes its an in-depth piece

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

A growing number of young football talents are coming through independent schools, where football programmes now offer specialist coaching, sports science and professional-level scouting.

@timwig explores how private-school football is booming ⬇️
https://t.co/R67nIUOJcc

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

@LucyLBinns Hi Lucy - it will be in the paper yes but not sure when

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

'I do wonder whether you end up with a slightly more middle-class game.'

Since 2016, the total number of teams in private schools has risen by over 4 times, with many schools using football as a recruiting tool.

The rise of the middle-class footballer

https://t.co/XGdeayE8PL

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

@Jj1414130687 @TeleFootball have you read the article? a growing no of kids breaking into the pro game pay significant or full fees - very different to city and bede's situation

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Since 2021, Nike’s share price has fallen 76 per cent – knocking more than £150bn off the company’s market value.

How it all went wrong for Nike: simultaneously attacked on both sides of the political divide, while rivals overtook them

https://t.co/zAEy4NLQNr

[Ben Jones @benjonescricket]

Josh Hazlewood hasn't got this much swing in a Test since 2018 - the last time he bowled at Kingsmead.

He is so often portrayed as the metronome, in some ways fairly - nobody bowls at his pace as accurately.

However - he is so, so much more than a line and length merchant.

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Josh Hazlewood's injuries have obscured that, when he's been fit, his Test performances have actually been getting better.

Hazlewood's last 94 Test wickets have come at an average of 18.05

[Sam Dean @SamJDean]

Very exciting and a little bit surreal to have my hands on a hard copy. I’m also pleased to say that signed copies are available at @GoldsboroBooks via this link:
https://t.co/NcUPTSFMpi

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

This will be really good

[Cameron Ponsonby @cameronponsonby]

🏏 V excited about this, pls get involved

Brand new YouTube channel called Inside Edge, covering some of cricket's most interesting stories.

First video is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️

📺 https://t.co/joenhbawSc

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Great to hear Stephen Fleming say that England should pay more attention to the World Test Championship.

England's disregard for the WTC has long been an example of the worst of English exceptionalism in cricket

https://t.co/j6lzMxP62M

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

The 3pm Saturday blackout for UK football matches has endured since the 1960s, and been seen as an essential way to support the whole football pyramid and protect attendances.

But the blackout is likely to end when the new TV deals begin in 2029

https://t.co/CWKnotvJGB

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Great to hear Stephen Fleming say that England should pay more attention to the World Test Championship.

England's disregard for the WTC has long been an example of the worst of English exceptionalism in cricket

https://t.co/j6lzMxP62M

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

A lovely piece on the excitement around Max Dowman by @SamJDean

https://t.co/ili1OQesi6

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

An interview with Steve Smith.

On why he's not sure if he will make the 2027 Ashes, how wobble seam is transforming Test cricket and his fears that spin is being pushed out of the longest format

https://t.co/Ii0IdRfRNy

[Tim Wigmore @timwig]

Insightful from Greg Baum

https://t.co/KqdHBFqqV8

[Ben Jones @benjonescricket]

🐌 Scoring too slowly
🏏 Rogue Dukes balls
💥 Bazball chaos
🇦🇺 Tonning up in Oz

Joe Root is one of the great problem solvers - he'll have to solve the LBW issues to pass Sachin, but this isn't his first rodeo.

Free to read on @TheAthletic

https://t.co/N7G5xEjXlY