Megan Maurice

I wonder if James Brayshaw channel 7 salary is partly funded by Kayo to make people sign up in hate / frustration. #bbl

Alyssa Healy shifted the dial to propel women’s cricket to its modern heights | Megan Maurice The retiring wicketkeeper-batter’s nervous beginnings made way for her lasting impact on the sport – and an overflowing trophy cabinet “I’m not cut out for this.” This is not a sentiment that anyone who has observed Alyssa Healy’s long and storied career would have associated with such a champion of the game. But it was this thought that hit Healy early in her career for Australia, trying her hand at opening for her country for the first time and finding herself unable to hit the ball off the square, that demonstrates the depths of her humility and humanity. Continue reading...

Alyssa Healy shifted the dial to propel women’s cricket to its modern heights | Megan Maurice

Alyssa Healy shifted the dial to propel women’s cricket to its modern heights | Megan Maurice The retiring wicketkeeper-batter’s nervous beginnings made way for her lasting impact on the sport – and an overflowing trophy cabinet

Some reflections on Alyssa Healy’s immense contribution to Australian cricket from me

www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...

Final update tonight. Andrew Denton is also out. Have also crossed out Michael Veitch & Tracey Lee Holmes as they were part of Better Off Said, which is out.

Remember the list is a not final. Don't assume those not crossed out are going

Others to be found here www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

Sadiq by Brian Turner It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

…it should break your heart to kill.

Let's be clear: it takes a village to protect & enable sexual abusers & anyone who continues to have an active account on X - including elected officials, journalists & government agencies - are now part of that village

I can imagine a great storyline with a “golden girl” style athlete who has been in high profile relationships with men, not wanting to make her relationship with a woman public due to image / branding concerns. It wouldn’t be far fetched at all!

Women’s sport is also getting less overtly queer as it becomes more mainstream, with straight women often pushed to the front by sporting orgs, so it’s definitely not far fetched that queer women would feel the need to hide their relationship

On the day that a Palestinian writer is dropped from Adelaide Writer’s Week for being *checks notes* Palestinian.

Absolutely insane, I loved every minute. I wasn’t going for either team until the Perth crowd lost their tiny minds and then I was fully on the Renegades

Perth crowd having a normal one. #BBL15 🏏

Pretty sure the entire primary school curriculum in WA is dedicated to the art of booing

I’ve said for years that what Australian cricket needs is enormous Tasmanians. Maybe 4 of them. #ashes

what if we could come up with a head band technology or something that made Starc always think it is the first over? #ashes

As Achilles heels go, this is probably not the worst one you could have.

#AUSvENG #Ashes

Burnt the reviews. Job done. #Ashes 🏏

Incidentally,
MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE
is an anagram of
BEN'S HUG CAN ALARM US.

#Ashes #AUSvENG

Love a team that uses two reviews on the night watchie #Ashes

The Pink Test is a feel-good story, but does it help where it’s really needed? | The New Daily

Ahead of Day 3 of the "pink test"

In 2022-23 the McGrath foundation spent about $8.8m on “foundation-funded breast care nurses”, but more than $9.1m on fundraising and marketing, and a further $2.2m on administration."
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024...

Anyway, semi-related, my brother thinks slow over rates should be punished by the availability of the new ball being delayed by however many overs they’re behind and I think I’m in favour of that. Especially if it gives us more Head-Labuschagne tandem filth. #Ashes 🏏

Brook out sixteen minutes before the scheduled start of play. What a precocious talent he is. #Ashes 🏏

We should play the Big Bash games now and come back to the Test later tonight. It's the Pink Test, let Starc bowl with a pink ball, ffs. #Ashes 🏏

Haha, I did the same thing this afternoon and was quite annoyed when I realised I could have still been watching cricket if things had gone differently!

According to the available stats, there have been 19 recorded fifties brought up off 19 balls or fewer in women's T20 cricket.

Laura Harris has made 6 of them (and these account for all of her 50+ scores in the format).

No other player has made more than one in their career.

#SuperSmashNZ

What a gift. Nightwatcher Boland v seven slips.
#Ashes 🏏

Scott Boland got a golden duck, 3/30, a catch, and more runs than Root/Duckett/Bethell combined today

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!