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At the Spianada in Corfu - one of the most characterful cricket grounds in the whole world - @AuthorsCC are batting. @AdamRutherford & @jonawils to open. Despite the fact that I have scored precisely 0 runs in my last 3 innings, I am batting at 3. #EliteSport 
I score a blistering 3, before selflessly sacrificing my wicket in the cause of accelerating the scoring rate.
Any youngsters watching - this is what is meant by THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET
Any youngsters watching - this is what is meant by THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET
Oh dear. My show of team spirit in getting out is for naught, as @AuthorsCC are bowled out for 104.
Heading to @Hutton1864, there to engage in a day of #EliteSport.
@jonawils, Hutton’s totem & star-player, returning there - much like Grealish returning to Villa Park - to play for @AuthorsCC.
Observe with wonder his champion’s breakfast.
@jonawils, Hutton’s totem & star-player, returning there - much like Grealish returning to Villa Park - to play for @AuthorsCC.
Observe with wonder his champion’s breakfast.
He’s now telling me all about his batting average.
Apparently it’s very good…
Apparently it’s very good…
The Euros have had their moments, so too the Olympics - but for sheer high octane, sporting drama nothing can possibly beat the sight of @Hutton1864 stalwart @jonawils at the wicket, playing for @AuthorsCC AGAINST Hutton CC.
There is, as the commentators like to say, CHIRP…
There is, as the commentators like to say, CHIRP…
To Arundel Castle, there to engage in two days of strenuous #EliteSport
In between innings, may also attempt to solve the Mystery of the Missing Rosary...
An athlete prepares...
An intensive weekend of #EliteSport beckons - & with it the chance to help @PassageCharity by sponsoring me for every run I score!!!
Anyone worried that sponsoring me may leave them open to financial ruin should be reassured that today’s match is at Warborough, where in five innings I have so far scored precisely zero runs.
Deft glovework from @AdamRutherford, who is now sponsoring me to get a duck...
Can an elite sportsman be TOO committed to top-flight sport?
Much food for thought here... #EliteSport
Much food for thought here... #EliteSport
Perhaps, for our own moral & spiritual good, those of us accustomed to pursuing success in top-flight sport at all costs need to learn to embrace failure? https://t.co/CldmGIsOSV
But, you know, I just can’t help myself...
Packing for tomorrow's #SussexTour: a journey round the sites & treasures administered by @sussex_society, England's oldest county archaeology society, but now, in its 150th year, facing a COVID meltdown.
A tragedy not just for Sussex but for everyone. sussexpast.co.uk
A tragedy not just for Sussex but for everyone. sussexpast.co.uk
I know that everyone has the begging bowl out now, but I hope that my #SussexTour will serve to persuade some of you that @sussex_society is a cause that richly merits your support: sussexpast.co.uk/please-donate-…
About to go on Radio Sussex to talk about my #SussexTour, & all the amazing work that @sussex_society do.
Up early, salving my frostbite sores, in readiness for today's top flight @AuthorsCC vs @MiddletonStoney clash.
#EliteSport
#EliteSport
I note - with sangfroid - that my frostbite sores are oozing through my cricket socks
Meanwhile, for those of you who may think that cricket is boring, here is @jonawils demonstrating how to warm up for a match
For fans of #EliteSport, there’s a thrilling match going on at @BurghleyPark today
It’s a tragedy that this isn’t free to view on TV, of course
The drama that the British public is being denied...
