St. Aidan to Abbey Manor (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Think of the top users of new media, and cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew wouldn't automatically spring to mind. However, with the aid of 22000 followers on Twitter, 'Aggers' succeeded in extracting an apology from an Observer journalist who made some off-colour remarks about Agnews' interview with Lily Allen at the weekend. Article here with more details. After spending just over a month on Twitter,...
Different Shades of Green (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Even fewer people have credited Ian Bell with being a perceptive cricketing sage than with being a Test class number three batsman, but when he warned at the end of the first day at The Oval that people shouldn't pronounce judgement on England's first innings total until Australia had batted, I decided that he had a point. A fairly obvious and trite one, granted, but a point nevertheless. I've been...
The Corridor (a cricket blog) (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
There’re some fun photos on Jonathan Agnew’s Twitter of Graham Onions and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. All sorts of witty suggestions, including this one of Onions discussing tactics with Nasser Hussain: Mad and silly is good. We like good.
Test Match Special (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
At the start of the Edgbaston Test it was Phillip Hughes who caused a stir in the on-line world by announcing his exclusion from the Australian Test team via a message on the social networking site "Twitter" Well the next revelation we hear via Twitter is that super-cool singer song writer Lily Allen is a big cricket fan who listens to Test Match Special and is considering a career in cricket...
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