An Indian woman in Japan is blazing trails in the workplace and on the cricket field, pursuing her passions and finding her balance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/10/09/our-lives/shrunali-ranade-cricket-engineering/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #expats #indiancommunity #engineering #engineers #cricket #womenssports
Surely India have this in the bag?
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In the words of CLR James, this film goes “beyond a boundary” to explain how the West Indies cricket team became the dominant force in world cricket in the 1970s & 1980s. Their dominance was so complete, it’s possible to argue that they were the greatest sporting team of the twentieth century.
The West Indies fast bowlers were skilful and brutal - it was remarkable that no one was killed - and in Viv Richards the team possessed a sporting genius.
In the words of CLR James, this film goes “beyond a boundary” to explain how the West Indies cricket team became the dominant force in world cricket in the 1970s & 1980s. Their dominance was so complete, it’s possible to argue that they were the greatest sporting team of the twentieth century.
The West Indies fast bowlers were skilful and brutal - it was remarkable that no one was killed - and in Viv Richards the team possessed a sporting genius.
@ChrisMayLA6 absolutely.
More generally, I tend to ignore sports writing and sports interviews. It is usually either egotistical dross or astonishingly banal.
I played my sport to the highest level it has. I knew I was competing against people much more gifted than I, but I worked damned hard at it, as hard as I could, and *loved* being a part of it.
So often, sports journalism has no appreciation of or understanding of that inner life, or of the fine margins in play
@urlyman @ChrisMayLA6 I happened to come across a beautiful bit of sports radio yesterday.. Ravi is a young blind cricket fan and player who basically took over the radio coverage at Edgbaston during tea. He was interviewed himself..then introduced to several players who he then interviewed - far more competently than the usual presenters! He was at interviewed at Headingly too. Clips on BBC here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/videos/cvg6xdp3g4do #sport #cricket #blindness #disabledsport
Update, sorry I read the wrong bit. No freebies, but £8 tix (kids £1) at Lancs. #CountyCricketDay #cricket https://www.countycricketday.com/
priryo@linernotes.club
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It's (women's) #CountyCricketDay on Sunday 6th. Go support yr local county if you can. Free @ Leics & Hove! #crickethttps://www.countycricketday.com/
It's (women's) #CountyCricketDay on Sunday 6th. Go support yr local county if you can. Free @ Leics & Hove! #crickethttps://www.countycricketday.com/
I would tag CountyCricketDay's BSky account, but they're not Bridged. Someone over there tell them please! #crickethttps://tlmb.net/bridge
It's (women's) #CountyCricketDay on Sunday 6th. Go support yr local county if you can. Free @ Leics & Hove! #crickethttps://www.countycricketday.com/
Here he is, quietly overwhelmed by it all, having a moment.
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Hearty congratulations to South Africa, long overdue and much-deserved. And because I have to make everything about Durham somehow, thrilled for Chester-le-Street legend David Bedingham.
But particularly I'm delighted for Temba Bavuma. Told at school that, because he was so small, there was no point in pursuing any sport seriously. Relentlessly criticised by people who accused him of being a token selection (he was the first Black African batsman selected for South Africa). Kept going through all of that, made himself into a wonderfully stubborn, intelligent, resourceful cricketer, and a fine captain too. A model for a decent, honest, committed sportsman.
It feels very appropriate that he played such a crucial innings, at the most critical time, despite hobbling around on one leg (and flatly refusing to leave the field).
What a guy. Well done that man.
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