Cameron Ponsonby
@cameronponsonby
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Freelancer hopping about. Stuff at @ESPNcricinfo and other places. Award nominated by the ECB, FWA and BJTC. Didn't win.
Joined August 2011
๐ฎ๐ณ Cheers India. Been a pleasure. The best ability is availability. Forever and always ๐ซก
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Broke his leg nine months and five days ago. Hell of a week.
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None of these India players have had T20 Blast experience and you can really tell.
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Jesus was the first person to ever play cricket
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Ben Foakes finishing up his keeping drills with the Himalayas in the background and Man in the Mirror blaring from the speaker. I just don't see how life could get any better.
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Maybe they should literally use the same pitch. Day one on day six. Day five on day 10. It'd be a science experiment.
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How many times is Bairstow now going to try and run out the Aussies in the same way for the rest of the series? I'm going with seven million. #Ashes.
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Odd one - But I think Jaiswal might be the best player of full tosses I've ever seen. Belts every single one for six.
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Rehan Ahmed picks up the ball and gives it back to Bumrah. And because everyone isn't insane. The game goes on.
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The four main highlights packages on offer on the BCCI website after their 3-0 loss to NZ. 1. "Pant's counter-attacking knock".2. "Five-star Jadeja weaves 5fer".3. "Was Pant out?".4. "Sensational Ashwin catch". Really great stuff.
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Brydon Carse proving that England's greatest talent factory is still working well: South Africa.
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Afghanistan losing to Bangladesh was the biggest upset in World Cup history.
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This is like telling someone you love them after six pints. You can't be making these types of promises at this time of night and on this kind of high.
"I will always be available to play Test cricket, no matter how much money is out there (from T20)," says Shamar Joseph. Brian Lara applauds #AUSvWI.
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India: Let's make a pitch that enhances the strengths of our spinners.England:
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Maybe they should literally use the same pitch. Day one on day six. Day five on day 10. It'd be a science experiment.
The good news is the second Test is at Multan as well.
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Ben Duckett has broken my ongoing and carefully kept Quality of Innings to Shitness of Dismissal graph
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NZ whitewash India in an historic series. No official highlights available on YouTube ๐ฎ.
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Actual cricket thought: India's T20 team are desperate for an all-rounder to balance the side before next year's World Cup. But the only comp where they can find/develop one is the IPL and that has the Impact Player rule which drastically reduces the need for an all-rounder.
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The result of a bit of a passion project of mine. Why not all 90mph is the same and what the speed gun doesn't tell us about pace.
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Konstas has tried to play a reverse ramp in Test cricket before he's tried to play a cover drive.
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Bashir trying to review only to be told by Root he'd been bowled. What a life.
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Ben Stokes managing all three formats
Ben Stokes prepared to come out of ODI retirement for the World Cup; story with @willis_macp .
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Another mad example of how cricket media rights work/don't work. Root became England's leading run scorer in history today. And the official England account can't share it - and will never be able to share it - because they don't have the rights to match footage.
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A big win for Ben Duckett in his first match as India coach.
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Alex Hales to bowl against Morgan tonight in an act of pure psychological warfare. Hales bowls him and does the Robbie Fowler celebration as Morgan walks off the pitch. Kids start crying but the Hundred is alive.
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Anderson to Atkinson for taking 11fer on his big day
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Jason Holder in action tomorrow for Dubai Capitals against Sharjah Warriors. The big one.
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Just for the public record. The USA are about to beat Pakistan thanks to a combined supershow from Saurabh Netravalkar and Nosthush Kenjige.
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Ben Stokes on four off his first nine balls. Just like he was in 1992.
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Hartley should refuse to interview England after this.
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The Brendon McCullum England selection strategy.
A special moment โค๏ธ. Congratulations, Josh ๐.
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Kohli when he dumped Chris Woakes over extra for six.
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One of the most infuriating bits of cricket coverage. England - the actual team who played in these matches - are not even able to share all of Anderson's milestone wickets because of whatever commercial/broadcast agreements exist. Instead have to share still images. Bonkers.
From #1 to #700! ๐. Anderson's milestone wickets ๐ด. Visit our Jimmy Hub: ๐ฅ. #EnglandCricket | @jimmy9
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England playing a game. The chef is at first slip.
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This has all the hallmarks of Ollie Pope playing one of those weird generational innings.
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I've found Aussie cricket fan culture fascinating since I've been here. A national sport that people only pay attention to for two months a year with a swirl of politics mixed in throughout. Here's my interpretation of it all. Hope it's not dumb.
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I've got quite obsessed with this. Trying to work out the last time I saw a shot I'd genuinely never seen before.
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Pointless stat but Saqib Mahmood has as many T20 caps for England as Jofra Archer which feels weird.
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Jimmy and Baz in the changing room tomorrow when Jimmy's touched down and Pakistan are 743-6.
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๐บ๐ธDallas is done for this WC. All four matches have been great events. Can make the case that part of its success is that cricket has been building a community here for years as opposed to the 'pop-up' nature of NY. Dallas: the home of cricket in the USA.
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My team of the series. 1. Zak Crawley.2. Ben Duckett.3. Ollie Pope.4. Rajat Patidar.5. Jonny Bairstow.6. Axar Patel.7. Ben Foakes+.8. Tom Hartley.9. Rehan Ahmed.10. Mukesh Kumar*.11. James Anderson.
A combined XI of the series might have 12 India players in it.
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England are about to win the greatest Test match of all time.
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"I do feel there's a bit of punch left in me as a cricketer, but I would like to expose and probably showcase that in club level cricket.". If he popped up in the Surrey Champ as an overseas it'd be the best thing ever.
Ravichandran Ashwin announces his retirement from all forms of international cricket. Congratulations on a brilliant career ๐
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England are about to lose the most one-sided Test match of all time.
England are about to win the greatest Test match of all time.
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In the last three weeks - Monty Panesar has said he wants to play cricket for England and be Prime Minister. He's like me when I was 7. Respect ๐ซก
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India put in their weakest display of the comp in a 70-run-win where two of their top four score centuries and their first-change takes 7fer.
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My current favourite stat. On average in June, it rains on 23 days a month in Guyana. #cricket
So England will play India in Guyana on Thursday. A couple of things to note:. - the forecast is less than ideal.- India will qualify if the game is washed out having won their group. Unusually, this second semi-final has no rain-reserve day. The first one in Trinidad does.
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"Rehan Ahmed has been called up to the England Test squad."
Liam Dawson having some match for Hampshire this round - 141 (247b) and currently 6/38 with the ball.
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Impact sub is poo. Gives a life to teams who deserve to be dead. You should be punished for being 14-4. That's the point of the sport.
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Woke Pat Cummins starting with a fielder out on the far left? Colour me shocked.
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Not having that as anything other than a massive bottle job from Pakistan. Bumrah's key final over had two massive fullies in it. Pak needed 47 off 47 with eight wickets in hand. How are you finishing on 113 in a T20 having not even been bowled out? Madness.
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The thing that makes my brain hurt though, is that the lad whose batted "properly" and "read the situation well" has got 17. And the lads who've got wrong have scored 98, 42, 10 and 50. And those numbers are bigger than 17. #Ashes.
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England's bowling attack in the 2024 CC. Woakes - 1 @ 220.Atkinson - 14 @ 30.Stone - 11 @ 52.Hull - 2 @ 183.Bashir - 4 @ 74. England's bowling attack in 2024 Test summer. Woakes 23 @ 19.Atkinson 33 @ 19.Stone 6 @ 26.Hull 3 @ 16.Bashir 14 @ 36.
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The Abu Dhabi T10 is an embarrassment to cricket.
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Coach Marcus Trescothick is in full whites and helping run the drinks. England low on the ground with Jack Leach and Rehan Ahmed no longer with the squad.
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How are England expecting to win a World Cup with their No.4 using a Kippax? Out in the group stage. It's all over
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Over 300 innings for Michael Hogan and never once LBW. Think I have a theory as to how he's managed it. Can't be sure though.
Michael Hogan is 41 years old and has batted over 300 times in professional cricket๐. He has never been out LBW. ๐ .๐ข
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Umps with his finger up for a good ten seconds just loving life. Pack 'em Steve.
โ๏ธ | ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ก (๐), ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ. Mulder gets Smith! The Australian survived a huge LBW shout from Scriven at the start of his innings, but he's sent on his way this time. A massive scalp. ๐ช. SUS 198/4. ๐ด ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ: ๐ฆ#LEIvSUS
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How can the attendance be zero and someone still walks behind the bowlers arm.
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Stokes asking the Windies batters to get out to Jimmy
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Joey Barton: You have to have played the game at the highest level to be able to judge it. ABDV: Nine is an upside down six and Pommie Mbangwa should be third umpire.
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If I was Joe Root, to save myself from a million people saying this innings is evidence he shouldn't scoop, I'd get to 99 and then kick them over.
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Ben Duckett being forced to cut every ball for four.
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