Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God created on earth." H Pinter. Now resting after 30 years as a BBC journo (Today, Newsnight, etc.) ✝︎

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

#FromYorkshire

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

.@YorkshireCCC, you require 148 to beat @leicsccc.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Worried about your bowling average? Just make sure you can play a few matches at Lord's.

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

What a very strange Test. @HomeOfCricket needs to sort this pitch out ASAP. Just not good enough.

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

YES BOYS! 🦁

A winning start to our Test match summer 💪

Victory by 115 runs at Lord's

[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

Brian Clough, who loved cricket, bowling at Lord's in a charity match in front of 8000 spectators in August 1975. Clough took 2 for 45 dismissing the great cricketing pair of Geoff Boycott and, er, Clement Freud. With the bat he scored 13. A lover of cricket, he once said he would have prefer to make a Test century at Lord's than to have scored a hat-trick at Wembley

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

Such vulgarity. How refreshing.

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

Aggers' favourite Lord's memory was the great Bob Massie taking 16 wickets in 1972 - and he later got to meet one of his heroes ❤️

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

Thank you so much for the superb comms on last night's thrilling match. Courtesy of two titans of radio sport: @oldmanradd and @Martycricket. #BBCCricket

[Rugby on TNT Sports @rugbyontnt]

TOM LAWDAY WINS IT FOR THE QUINS!!! 😱

@Harlequins seal the win against Northampton Saints with a last minute try, scored by Tom Lawday in his final match for the Quins!

📺 Stream @TNTSports with @HBOMaxUK

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

Easy there, @bbctms #Massie

[Adam Mountford @tmsproducer]

I spy our first View from the Boundary guest of the summer.

Richard Moore the former head of MI6.

Live now on 5 Sports Extra & @BBCSounds.

Available as a podcast later.

#bbccricket

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

[Yorkshire CCC @YorkshireCCC]

ROSES ARE WHITE!

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

What a night, JD! I really enjoyed single moment, especially your marvellous comes with the legend that is @BumbleCricket. I'm looking forward to tomorrow afternoon already. Thank you! @JonathanDoidge

[Jonathan Doidge @JonathanDoidge]

WIN! There’s no smoke without fire and @YorkshireCCC really were on 🔥 at Headingley tonight, hammering their highest total against @lancscricket at Headingley in Blast history and then routing them for 107. It was the Lankies’ heaviest defeat by runs in T20s. Great fun with

[Jonathan Doidge @JonathanDoidge]

Welcome from Headingley where @BumbleCricket and I are doing both games for the BBC Sport website and app and the men’s match on BBC Radio Leeds all frequencies, with @KH_BBCLeeds both presenting and trying to ensure that the only Roses clash remains on the field… #bbccricket

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

Still as fresh as a daisy.

[Adaubam Pires @adaubam]

Que partida memorável. O lindo gol de Sócrates, Hegel e Kant correndo para refutar, Confúcio impassível na arbitragem, o júbilo final dos clássicos e pré-socráticos.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

"As Captain General of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, it gives me the greatest pride on this most significant day to witness the formation of your new regiment — The King's Gurkha Artillery. Ajur din ramro cha! [Today is a good day!]"

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[Andy Walker - @claudus.bsky.social @walker_cricket]

Missed terribly.

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

Ball of the Century

#OnThisDay in 1993, Shane Warne bowled his first ball in England and that turned out to be the Ball of the Century.

It drifted lazily onto leg stump, then spat back a yard or two and clipped the top of off.

The famous picture of Ian Healy aahing and Gatting oohing tells the story perfectly.

[BLACKCAPS @BLACKCAPS]

A memorable afternoon immortalising one of New Zealand's greats. The late Martin Crowe's portrait was unveiled today in The Long Room between Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Viv Richards.

#ENGvNZ

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

To mark the 150th Test match at Lord's, all England's former living captains were invited onto the pitch for a special event.

Some legends here 😍