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I am about cricket jerseys the way Elis James is about Welsh football kits. On that note, England cricket peaked with the 2013 Champions Trophy kit. The red with the noticeable blue? Delish. The red and white alone lacks that punch, honestly. What good is having the Union Jack if you're not even going to incorporate the nicer bits of its colour scheme into your jersey.
i have no words…..
The stupidity of sportspeople looking away when climate protesters try to disrupt games is just staggering, like cricketers are young people. The average professional sports player is young. Do they think they, unlike their 40-82 year-old higher ups, have the opportunity to just opt out of the climate crisis? Does Jonny Bairstow think he's just going to be able to opt out of it and "get on with the game" when he and his colleagues already look close to death when they have to play a routine game in the Australian summer? What are they going to do when it gets hotter? The stupidity is that they are the ones that need to go out in the sun for eight hours a day and play, whether it's 15° or 50°.
The Australian players are already intimately aware of how hard it can be in the heat. They've also personally dealt with wildfires. They aren't stupid. They know exactly where all that is coming from. And I understand that in the moment you might just want to get on with the Test, but not so much as a word after the game? Cricketers have a mic thrust in their face and the cameras and attention of the entire cricketing world trained on them every evening of this Test. As the Just Stop Oil spokesperson said, parts of the cricketing world will become uninhabitable. Yet silence from the players, who people love and would listen to.
When the outdoor temperatures get more extreme, they will either have to pretend to look the other way and act like everything is alright as they swelter and faint in record heat, or their matches will be cancelled. I can promise you the ECB isn't paying for cancelled matches. What are they going to do? It's coming for them one way or the other. It's stupid to pretend that the climate might have nothing to do with cricket. Geoff Boycott is stupid to think this conversation doesn't belong in cricket. Cricket more than any other regular job is inherently tied to the outdoors. What a stupid decision to look away and stay silent. The protesters brought an opportunity to open this discussion with players, and they threw it away.
tammy doing it for all the short girlies out there too
This is quite repulsing
Kudos for Gray Nicolls but I've really seen this 'Sports shouldn't be mixed with politics' argument a lot and here's the thing
THIS. ISN'T. POLITICS. Not imo. Every person has a right to play a sport and get to whatever level their talents take them. This isn't about giving some people more attention/opportunities than others. It's about giving those opportunities to people who have been DENIED them due to discrimination.
Making sure that everyone is allowed to play sports (which are activies that are MEANT to be played by everybody) isn't politics. It's what should've been done all along.
You know what sounds pretty shitty to me though? Rejecting people in sport by who they are and not by their skill level. If you want to make a sport apolitical, stop pushing YOUR agenda of discrimination. This hat (can't believe people are pissed over a hat; humans used to invent stuff like the Internet) only represents the people who want to play sport and haven't been allowed to. They're not here to 'spread homosexuality' or that bullshit. All they care about is sport. People like this Instagram user on the other hand, aren't just here for the sport. They're the ones who have other agendas on mind.
Every time I tune into English cricket it's always one guy Joe Root having to everything where is the rest of the squad
“Joe, I’ve got something in my eye.” “Yeah, an eyeball.”
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[England cricketer] Katherine Brunt's England career was almost over before it began because she wanted to see Muse and Kings of Leon at V Festival.
"My sister Rachel managed to sort tickets and I was really excited about them," she tells BBC Sport. "I almost passed up the offer to play for England because of it. It seems pretty silly now, but at the time I was deadly serious."
[...] Reluctantly, I said yes, and it was the best decision I've ever made."
More than 17 years on, Brunt, now 36, is still to see Muse and Kings of Leon play live, but she does have more international wickets than any other woman to play for England. She has won three Ashes series and the T20 World Cup. She is embarking on her fifth 50-over World Cup, looking to lift the trophy for a third time.
Katherine, I will buy you tickets to go see Muse for having the joy of reading an article like this; go see them!!
