Neil S
@southerscricket.bsky.social
Dewey Decimal geek. Gloucestershire cricket and Swindon Town fan. Counties will always be better than franchises.
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Our new signing Gabe Bell in numbers:
☝️ 192 FC wickets
📉 25.11 FC average
🏆 2023/24 Sheffield Shield Team of the Year
👏 6/39 FC career best v Queensland
🔴 15 wickets in 6 matches for Tasmania in 2025
#BecomeGlorious
☝️ 192 FC wickets
📉 25.11 FC average
🏆 2023/24 Sheffield Shield Team of the Year
👏 6/39 FC career best v Queensland
🔴 15 wickets in 6 matches for Tasmania in 2025
#BecomeGlorious
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our new signing Gabe Bell in numbers:
☝️ 192 FC wickets
📉 25.11 FC average
🏆 2023/24 Sheffield Shield Team of the Year
👏 6/39 FC career best v Queensland
🔴 15 wickets in 6 matches for Tasmania in 2025
#BecomeGlorious
☝️ 192 FC wickets
📉 25.11 FC average
🏆 2023/24 Sheffield Shield Team of the Year
👏 6/39 FC career best v Queensland
🔴 15 wickets in 6 matches for Tasmania in 2025
#BecomeGlorious
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Desperately sad to learn of the death of Robin Smith. Watching his savage cutting of a strong West Indies pace attack when he made 148* in the 2nd Test at Lord's, June 22nd 1991 stands out as one of my strongest cricketing memories. Coming in at 60 for 4 he steered England to safety (Patrick Eagar)
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Desperately sad to learn of the death of Robin Smith. Watching his savage cutting of a strong West Indies pace attack when he made 148* in the 2nd Test at Lord's, June 22nd 1991 stands out as one of my strongest cricketing memories. Coming in at 60 for 4 he steered England to safety (Patrick Eagar)
Great long weekend planning my 2026 cricketing summer travels - particularly looking forward to visiting new grounds Repton and Gosforth. A county schedule that, for once, doesn't leave me shaking my head in disbelief at last.
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great long weekend planning my 2026 cricketing summer travels - particularly looking forward to visiting new grounds Repton and Gosforth. A county schedule that, for once, doesn't leave me shaking my head in disbelief at last.
Quite like the county fixture release dates being split, spreading the magic and planning throughout the week!
T20 schedule seems pretty sensible overall, reducing pinch points significantly, prioritising Fridays and Sundays and giving the CC two rounds in the middle during the longest June days.
T20 schedule seems pretty sensible overall, reducing pinch points significantly, prioritising Fridays and Sundays and giving the CC two rounds in the middle during the longest June days.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Quite like the county fixture release dates being split, spreading the magic and planning throughout the week!
T20 schedule seems pretty sensible overall, reducing pinch points significantly, prioritising Fridays and Sundays and giving the CC two rounds in the middle during the longest June days.
T20 schedule seems pretty sensible overall, reducing pinch points significantly, prioritising Fridays and Sundays and giving the CC two rounds in the middle during the longest June days.
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England to prepare with pink golf balls ahead of day-night Brisbane Test.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
England to prepare with pink golf balls ahead of day-night Brisbane Test.
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"Like losing a winning lottery ticket, England have squandered the opportunity of a lifetime here in Perth."
One-dimensional England botch their big chance | ✍️ @georgedobell.bsky.social
One-dimensional England botch their big chance | ✍️ @georgedobell.bsky.social
One-dimensional England botch their big chance | The Cricketer
Through an ingrained belief that they have an ability not given to any previous generation of Test batters to thrash their way to victory from any scenario, they surrendered a wonderful chance
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November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Like losing a winning lottery ticket, England have squandered the opportunity of a lifetime here in Perth."
One-dimensional England botch their big chance | ✍️ @georgedobell.bsky.social
One-dimensional England botch their big chance | ✍️ @georgedobell.bsky.social
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No doubt it's the County Championship's fault again.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
No doubt it's the County Championship's fault again.
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They were weakened. This was big opportunity
But hey, stick with Crawley, go golfing & keep telling us you are right
The resources and the rhetoric don’t match the results against the major teams.
But hey, stick with Crawley, go golfing & keep telling us you are right
The resources and the rhetoric don’t match the results against the major teams.
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
They were weakened. This was big opportunity
But hey, stick with Crawley, go golfing & keep telling us you are right
The resources and the rhetoric don’t match the results against the major teams.
But hey, stick with Crawley, go golfing & keep telling us you are right
The resources and the rhetoric don’t match the results against the major teams.
So I wake up at 2am, grit my teeth through England batting, then leave for work at 7am and miss all the fun.
The other half wakes up just before 7am and gets to enjoy England bowling so well all morning.
No justice sometimes 😂🏏
The other half wakes up just before 7am and gets to enjoy England bowling so well all morning.
No justice sometimes 😂🏏
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So I wake up at 2am, grit my teeth through England batting, then leave for work at 7am and miss all the fun.
The other half wakes up just before 7am and gets to enjoy England bowling so well all morning.
No justice sometimes 😂🏏
The other half wakes up just before 7am and gets to enjoy England bowling so well all morning.
No justice sometimes 😂🏏
A totally brainless half-hour. Any hopes that smart Bazball had developed over the past year well and truly extinguished.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A totally brainless half-hour. Any hopes that smart Bazball had developed over the past year well and truly extinguished.
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In fairness, we don’t know how bad this is until Australia have had a chance to bat and are 342-2.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
In fairness, we don’t know how bad this is until Australia have had a chance to bat and are 342-2.
Quick 25 minute doze during the first lunch break of the series. Body clock already all over the place.
Starc superb as feared. Without that Green wicket, it would have been a half-decent fightback but an already familiar first-day feeling taking hold.
Starc superb as feared. Without that Green wicket, it would have been a half-decent fightback but an already familiar first-day feeling taking hold.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Quick 25 minute doze during the first lunch break of the series. Body clock already all over the place.
Starc superb as feared. Without that Green wicket, it would have been a half-decent fightback but an already familiar first-day feeling taking hold.
Starc superb as feared. Without that Green wicket, it would have been a half-decent fightback but an already familiar first-day feeling taking hold.
A long away day to Fleetwood, leaving the house at 6am and just getting back. Decent enough point on the road for STFC to go top of the table but a nagging feeling it should have been all three. Switched off on the stroke of half-time to concede after a really good 1st half.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A long away day to Fleetwood, leaving the house at 6am and just getting back. Decent enough point on the road for STFC to go top of the table but a nagging feeling it should have been all three. Switched off on the stroke of half-time to concede after a really good 1st half.
A hectic old weekend with Munroe's 93rd minute winner for STFC on a glorious autumn afternoon yesterday undoubtedly the highlight.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A hectic old weekend with Munroe's 93rd minute winner for STFC on a glorious autumn afternoon yesterday undoubtedly the highlight.
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Last weekend, I spent three days with non-league clubs looking to pull off FA Cup upsets for a piece on the brilliance of the English football pyramid. It was a laugh.
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Hunting for giant killers: My 72-hour FA Cup odyssey
We take the FA Cup for granted so I went to four matches in three days
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November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Last weekend, I spent three days with non-league clubs looking to pull off FA Cup upsets for a piece on the brilliance of the English football pyramid. It was a laugh.
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Half-term travels: a frustrating 0-0 at Swindon last Saturday, before a refreshing short break on the south coast - visiting Jane Austen's House the main focus to mark the 250th year of her birth. 2nd place in a Halloween quiz last night where it was good to finally have a 🎃 Sam Hain question!
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Half-term travels: a frustrating 0-0 at Swindon last Saturday, before a refreshing short break on the south coast - visiting Jane Austen's House the main focus to mark the 250th year of her birth. 2nd place in a Halloween quiz last night where it was good to finally have a 🎃 Sam Hain question!
Swindon 2 Notts County 2. Good to be back at SN1 at last. A sluggish performance at times but decent character shown to come back twice when well off our best.
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Swindon 2 Notts County 2. Good to be back at SN1 at last. A sluggish performance at times but decent character shown to come back twice when well off our best.
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Wow. Late drama as Tasmania beat WA by 3 runs in a Sheffield Shield thriller!
The West was cruising at 5/198 before slumping to 8/215 neediing 259. Two late strikes for Gabe Bell (pictured) did tue work for the Island State.
TAS 171 & 259
WA 172 & 255
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The West was cruising at 5/198 before slumping to 8/215 neediing 259. Two late strikes for Gabe Bell (pictured) did tue work for the Island State.
TAS 171 & 259
WA 172 & 255
www.espncricinfo.com/series/sheff...
October 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Wow. Late drama as Tasmania beat WA by 3 runs in a Sheffield Shield thriller!
The West was cruising at 5/198 before slumping to 8/215 neediing 259. Two late strikes for Gabe Bell (pictured) did tue work for the Island State.
TAS 171 & 259
WA 172 & 255
www.espncricinfo.com/series/sheff...
The West was cruising at 5/198 before slumping to 8/215 neediing 259. Two late strikes for Gabe Bell (pictured) did tue work for the Island State.
TAS 171 & 259
WA 172 & 255
www.espncricinfo.com/series/sheff...
Four games in 26 hours over the weekend, starting at Stockport 3pm on Saturday and finishing at Anfield 4:45pm Sunday, via Oldham and Hill Dickinson Stadium. Crazy travel plans all worked out nicely and the two Liverpool grounds finally took me to 92/92.
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Four games in 26 hours over the weekend, starting at Stockport 3pm on Saturday and finishing at Anfield 4:45pm Sunday, via Oldham and Hill Dickinson Stadium. Crazy travel plans all worked out nicely and the two Liverpool grounds finally took me to 92/92.
Back to STFC in a couple of weeks but first the small matter of a crazy four-game weekend to kick-start my 2025-26 football season and finally complete 'The 92'. Today though it's two revisits to grounds I last went to over 15 years ago...
October 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Back to STFC in a couple of weeks but first the small matter of a crazy four-game weekend to kick-start my 2025-26 football season and finally complete 'The 92'. Today though it's two revisits to grounds I last went to over 15 years ago...
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Sarah Mullally is (or will be when formally installed) the first Archbishop of Canterbury to share her surname with anyone who played multiple Tests for England since Matthew Hutton in 1758. More recently Geoffrey Fisher and Rowan Williams shared theirs with one Test wonders.
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sarah Mullally is (or will be when formally installed) the first Archbishop of Canterbury to share her surname with anyone who played multiple Tests for England since Matthew Hutton in 1758. More recently Geoffrey Fisher and Rowan Williams shared theirs with one Test wonders.
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As voted by you, James Bracey and Liv Daniels are your Supporters’ Players of the Year! 💛🖤
#BecomeGlorious
#BecomeGlorious
October 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As voted by you, James Bracey and Liv Daniels are your Supporters’ Players of the Year! 💛🖤
#BecomeGlorious
#BecomeGlorious
A heavy defeat sadly at Lord's today for Glos but good to get one last nearly-full day in to complete my 2025 summer.
Always a sad moment watching the players leave the pitch for the final time in late September. Saw the last ball of 2025; already looking forward to the first ball of 2026.
Always a sad moment watching the players leave the pitch for the final time in late September. Saw the last ball of 2025; already looking forward to the first ball of 2026.
September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A heavy defeat sadly at Lord's today for Glos but good to get one last nearly-full day in to complete my 2025 summer.
Always a sad moment watching the players leave the pitch for the final time in late September. Saw the last ball of 2025; already looking forward to the first ball of 2026.
Always a sad moment watching the players leave the pitch for the final time in late September. Saw the last ball of 2025; already looking forward to the first ball of 2026.
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A view on the schedule vote from a former county chair and financial expert
One of the few who calls out the ECB
Devastating last par
One of the few who calls out the ECB
Devastating last par
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A view on the schedule vote from a former county chair and financial expert
One of the few who calls out the ECB
Devastating last par
One of the few who calls out the ECB
Devastating last par
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Common sense prevails. And nothing to do with "Ludittes" who were actually progressive.
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Common sense prevails. And nothing to do with "Ludittes" who were actually progressive.