If someone/ anyone can explain why the team did not enforce the follow on, I’d be enormously grateful. #EssexCricket

A friend here in the U.S. is building a new house. Doing much of the work himself. I asked him a couple of days ago how it was going. He replied, in full: “House build- it's Knight of the Realm progress with a BazBall intent”.

Makes perfect sense!

#EssexCricket #SirAlastairCook

Makes perfect sense to schedule a very rare summer #CountyCricket #RedBall match to start on the final day of the #WTC. Appreciate the sterling work done by the Aus players to make #EssexCricket the viewing priority of the day. Always pure joy to spend time with the Knight of the Realm.

Just discovered my day is now fully booked: https://www.youtube.com/live/Y4iaSKFj7H0?feature=share. Should have known this would happen. #EssexCricket #IrelandCricket

Hate this. Every time I start to have my doubts we do something to draw me back in. If this were T20 we'd be getting on with our day. I can barely cope. #EssexCricket #Cricket

So I guess Jimmy won the Cook - Anderson justification of #CountyCricket match up. Damn if Matt Critchley isn’t looking really good, though. #EssexCricket #LancashireCricket

Anderson to Sir Alastair. Five slips. Oh my gosh. Glorious. #EssexCricket #LancashireCricket

@alexbowden Not sure of the etiquette of linking to a post the author might later promote here, but this is so much fun I am going to go ahead and do so: https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/james-anderson-jamie-porter-and-sam-cook-plus-a-whole-bunch-of-lethal-overseas-dobblers-essex-v-lancashire-doesnt-promise-to-be-a-runfest/2023/04/12/.

I am very much looking forward to this match starting tomorrow. This preview helps explain why.

I am still reeling from last year’s second-time around fiasco: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-2022-1297650/essex-vs-lancashire-1297783/match-report.

#EssexCricket #LancashireCricket #CountyCricket

One of those strange periods where you know exactly what the outcome will be but can't see it happening. You just want it over, but the tedium of the moment simply adds to the tension. Once again, excellent commentary really helps. #EssexCricket #Middlesex.

What a dazzling start to the #Middlesex innings, a great fight back, and a brilliant end to day two. Mainly, just absolutely blown away by the exceptional commentary by the BBC London and BBC Essex team. Phenomenal. Easily the best two days I have ever listened to in any sport, and a brilliant advertisement for not having advertising. #EssexCricket

Just a bit under 24 hours until I stop thinking about anything other than following #EssexCricket v #Middlesex while setting up the garden for Spring work. Odd how literally nothing else will matter for the next four days (family emergencies excepting [maybe?]).

Sometimes when I think I could just call it a day and sit back and contemplate #EssexCricket or the wonder that was the great #MaritBjørgen for the next few years, this is all I need to remind me I could maybe do a little more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4Avdlz3lk. #FrankTurner

This was the best innings I've ever seen (and photographed) at the ECG... Happy retirement @amlahash@twitter.com #qualityalltheway

RT @EssexCricket@twitter.com

👏 A special player who scored a match-saving 181 on his debut for Essex in 2009.

Happy retirement, @amlahash@twitter.com! 🤝

#EssexCricket https://twitter.com/WisdenCricket/status/1615682477355409409

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EssexCricket/status/1615708997310636032

#introduction Hello. I am moving from one of the big instances. Currently, I am working on a biography of Nancy Sharp, a C20 English painter, but I am generally still most active writing about #JonathanSwift (one recent talk and an essay forthcoming) and the #ChurchofIreland (not always related to Swift). I also write on occasion about #EssexCricket or #CountyCricket in general. Probably not doing any more translation, but spending more time reading in Norwegian just for the fun of it.

Back in the States to the news that "Commanded by an angel from heaven," an essay of mine about #JonathanSwift, the #ChurchofIreland, and practice versus doctrine will be appearing sometime soon-ish in a #UniversityofDelawarePress publication and that "A cricketing alphabetiary," which is just about what it sounds, but with a focus on #EssexCricket, is forthcoming in the small magazine #CountyCricketMatters [https://www.countycricketmatters.com/], which is most definitely worth subscribing to, by the way.