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https://t.co/lNXKXJIs2W broadcaster,songwriter,former international cricketer,graham greene fan,sunshine spreader. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!
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Joined March 2011
The New Album, “Always Somewhere”.Produced by @PeteTwymanUK .Photography by @Andy_Barter .Released by @CherryRedGroup .Out Now!
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Unlike the legend that is R Ashwin to be involved in something mildly controversial… 😉 #INDvPAK 🇮🇳🇵🇰.
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Warm welcome as always in 🇵🇰 - though I wonder when they spotted the case of mistaken identity… 🤣 #PSL8
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You once pretended you’d missed a take down the leg side standing up then stumped me as I took off for a bye… motion to strike, Your Honour!.
Just arrived home & see the #Bairstow incident.Totally agree Hoggy he put his foot back in and held it a sec to respect the WK and that’s all it takes as respect.23 years as WK that all it takes from a batter a little foot hold. Poor it’s not the spirit of the game. #Ashes2023.
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If you’re not watching the cricket right now… Glenn Maxwell is playing a knock for the ages #freakout.
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It’s been an awesome 5 weeks in 🇵🇰for #HBLPSL8 . Thank you to everyone for the warmth & hospitality!.
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Supply teachers on a geography field trip… @SkyCricket.
Two former England captains have a cultural experience in Multan. Picture courtesy @snapperhead333 @Athersmike @nassercricket
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News to me!!.
We’re excited to welcome Mark Alan Butcher to the National Cricket League USA as our new head coach! . Get ready for expert coaching and thrilling matches! . 🌐 Discover more: #NCLUSA #MarkButcher #NewCoach #CricketRevolution #GameChanger
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A mankad is like sleeping with your best pals ex. Perfectly legitimate but don’t complain if you get chinned for it.
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Highest death rate in the world & he’s one of the people who’s set our “policy” on the whole debacle. Honestly @KP24 if you can’t see it, I worry for the rhino. .
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If you are a cricket person please join the challenge of posting a cricket photo. Just one picture, no description. Please copy the text in your status, post a picture and look at some great memories/pictures.
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We went miles ahead in the first Ashes Test of ‘97, then they just “Kept having Test matches.”.
We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are “Millions of ballots left to be counted.”.
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Amazing Japanese food, wonderful company! 🇵🇰.
Decided to show the comms and some of the other guests what Lahore is about. Some brilliant Japanese at Sumo.Thank you Michael Atherton,Dirk Nannes,Azhar Ali and Mark Butcher for joining us.
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@Colinhowell82 @IanWright0 He really didn’t. He accused them of using the same language, and nobody is arguing with him about that because he’s 100% right.
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Warm, funny, generous - will miss Uncle Bob enormously.
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Last group game here in Lahore - behind closed doors, sadly. Still @dirk_nannes has taken the opportunity to take advantage. #PSL 🇵🇰 #LQvMS
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Timber!.
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As always, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time in India, despite Covid changing things quite dramatically! Thanks to staff @ITCHotels and @StarSportsIndia for taking good care of us all. Until next time. 🙏🇮🇳.
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Pre-tournament favourites England & India battered by the Green Machine! Especially happy for @AzharMahmood11 #PakistanZindabad.
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It’s been a lot of fun once again, Pakistan! Very lucky to commentate on the NZ series as a neutral and to work with such a good team. Until next time. ! 🇵🇰🇳🇿🙌
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Now this is what I’m talking about. #wristofdoom 😂.
@GryllidaeC @markbutcher72 Want to knock over top order batsmen in the subcontinent? Dial @markbutcher72
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My last stint on this year’s PSL. It’s been an absolute blast. A great competition, fantastic people, incredible country! Thank you to @sportzworkzgb for having me 🙏🇵🇰.
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Been quite a week; my home Test debut on @SkyCricket, the fitst airing of #YouGuysAreHistory on the same, and the incredible honour of the room opening at my home from home @surreycricket ! A lot to be thankful for & a lot of people to thank 🙏.
🔊 We hereby declare The Kia Oval's Mark Butcher Room OPEN!. Well deserved, @markbutcher72! 👏.
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A bit harsh!.
@markbutcher72 Apparently someone is not welcome at the Oval member's pavilion 😬. What did you do?!. #ICCWTC2023 #IndiaAustralia
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Thought for the day: blind loyalty makes people perceive bias everywhere! 🤔.
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@AzharAli_ - top man, fine player and @CPFC fan. 👍.
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Back to back 200s for Kohli. Called it when he had 46. Even allowing for Sri Lanka’s attack, it’s extraordinary. #INDvSL.
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Ahmedabad seems an odd choice for such a big final, when you have such perfect evenings in the northeast of England at this time of year… #Blast #DURvNOT #IPL2023Final 🐟
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Or, on a more positive note, England the 1st team to win by an innings after conceding 500… it’s the way you tell ‘em @MazherArshad 🤣🙏.
Pakistan is the first team in 147 years history of Tests to lose by an innings after scoring 500. #PakvEng.
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Heavily armed yet taken alive. Wow there’s some unlucky unarmed black folk out there.
Synagogue shooting suspect: What we know about alleged Pittsburgh gunman Robert Bowers
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Brilliant from @nassercricket.
💬Azeem Rafiq deserved his own day after what he's been through.💬. @nassercricket and @Athersmike discuss the report confirming Azeem Rafiq was 'victim of racial harassment and bullying' during his time at Yorkshire - and the timing of its release by the club.
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Thanks for all the love over this anniversary! A genuinely life-changing day - one I have many people to thank for. Number 1 on the list, @abutch58 who gave me the tools to do it.
20 years ago today, @markbutcher72 played one of the great Ashes knocks at Headingley, a fourth innings 173* to help England chase down 315. Butcher averaged over 50 in home Tests in the 21st century.
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It’s about wallpaper like Brokeback was about camping, skip. .
Surely whoever is Prime Minister deserves a decent place to live . All this nonsense regarding refurbishment of a flat is nonsense . #OnOn.
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Hugely confusing for the foaming anti-woke, I should imagine….
A plastic-free Remembrance poppy partly made from coffee cup waste has been launched
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Been an absolute honour to know & work with this man in his many different guises for the last 24 years. #legend.
"I'm done now with Sweet Caroline but in the words of Elton John, 'I'm still standing!'". After 22 years with Sky Sports, David 'Bumble' Lloyd has put down his mic for the final time.
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Just watched Smith presser. Hope everybody has had their pound of flesh now.
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5 day Tests, away teams winning Test series, (good) bowlers on top - it’s almost as though you can leave the game to its own devices & it all sorts itself out in the end! 😎.
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White supremicist? My mum is going to be really pissed with me! 🇯🇲.
@markbutcher72 @Rishhutrust @Yas_Wisden @WisdenCricket @Phil_Wisden Wisden can a give forum to this fascist Mark to go on an unhinged white supremacist fascist rant but cant invite Sunil Gavaskar who has called white supremacy out to comment.These fascists r triggered cos a colored nation like India is strong in cricket.
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A real honour to be asked to do this - love the way that the England team includes players’ families and links the past to the present. 🙌.
"Keep the eyes and ears open and the rest of it will unfold for you because you are wonderfully talented." . When Jamie Smith received his first England cap 🥰. #EnglandCricket
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A classic of the “brown folk shouldn’t have an opinion” genre. 👌.
Some truly dreadful commentating by @markbutcher72 on @SkyCricket in the #T20Blast tonight believing that the spirit of the game should be forgotten if a player has gone down hurt. Quite self opinionated for someone who only has a job to make up a diversity quota.
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“Some of my closest friends are water. ”.
She’s here! Coffey says she has “lived near water pretty much all [her] life” and that her constituency is “full of rivers and creeks” as she delivers a plan she says will “deliver clean and plentiful water”
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Congrats to all concerned.
Breaking: Energy supplier E.ON has announced profits of £4.9 billion for the first half of the year.
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Hot stone treatment for Gill. Stone dead. Stoney silence in the crowd. I’ll get me coat.
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Sounds plausible.
If @markbutcher72 had bowled as many deliveries in Test cricket as @jimmy9 (35,490) with his own strike-rate (8), @markbutcher72 would have had 4436 wickets.
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Polly!!.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he believes that New Zealand will be fully independent, but that is not a priority 'right now'. Find more:
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Sorry, but pitches have been garbage this tournament.
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Never kept wicket for South Africa either… 😎.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Mark Butcher is your Reform UK candidate for the upcoming Blackpool by-election.
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Ta.
@markbutcher72 Hi Mark, you’re one of the greatest wicket keeper batsman of all time and I’m sure you’ll revive South African cricket 😂.
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At least this episode will signal the end of the sanctimonious morality police claptrap from Aus. It will, won’t it?!.
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@Aggerscricket @GaryLineker I’m sure this is a friendly piece of advice from a colleague, Aggers? Perhaps an e mail or a DM would have done the trick?.
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Thoughts on the Root dismissal. Ball travels horizontally, not vertically towards an object that is curved, not flat. Therefore the ball can, and did in this case, bounce off the fingers into the palms. Out! #EngvInd.
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Had something in my eye when I heard it live - it’s come back.
Wow, Freddie Flintoff ❤️. The England and Lancs legend gave fellow Red Rose Tom Hartley his cap last month. What an incredible speech 👏
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Once more into the breach… last of the Little & Large Christmas Special from studio 8 🇵🇰🏴.@SkyCricket @StuartBroad8
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More of this please.
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Big shout out to my former opening partner & @SkyCricket front man @WardyShorts - he handled the chaos & emotion of the post match wrap on Sunday with the usual aplomb!.
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As always, enjoyed the time in Sri Lanka. Special thanks to the staff of the Marriott, Weligama Bay in Galle for their diligence and good humour! 🇱🇰
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🧵.Happy Birthday to the legend of a human that is Saqlain Mushtaq! Bowling Saqi! 🙌.
Wanted to write something on the magician and what could be better occasion than his Birthday. A man who was an Inventor, a Trailblazer whenever we'll talk about spinners,especially Off-spinners. Achieved legendary status at age when many players won't even made their
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Thanks to @KKRiders for the time with @chriswoakes - much appreciated! Let's hope he gets covered in cake at the weekend. #IPL10 🙏
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I bloody hope not! I gave up caring about who wins games of cricket when I retired, but I care deeply about the sport. This kind of crap (and the other kind) does not help, no matter who does it.
@markbutcher72 @MattPrior13 5 tests in England. Are you expecting 5 pitches like this? This was New Zealand hosting Bangladesh
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Happy Birthday, Pelican! You’re Never Gone ❤️
On what would have been his 44th birthday, everyone at Surrey County Cricket Club remembers Ben Hollioake.
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Well. Back to back Test series wins in Australia. King Ravi will enjoy his Scotch toneet!.
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Test squad for Pakistan: Ben Stokes (capt), James Anderson, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ben Foakes (wk), Will Jacks, Keaton Jennings, Jack Leach, Liam Livingstone, Jamie Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Joe Root, Mark Wood.
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