Mike Haysman
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Cricket Commentator & former player
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A remarkable end to the first day of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG as Dennis Lillee took 3 for 1 in 12 balls, bowling Viv Richards via an inside edge with the final delivery of the day to leave West Indies 10 for 4. Lillee later described this as his favourite dismissal
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A remarkable end to the first day of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG as Dennis Lillee took 3 for 1 in 12 balls, bowling Viv Richards via an inside edge with the final delivery of the day to leave West Indies 10 for 4. Lillee later described this as his favourite dismissal
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Corgis Investigate to Law & Order ⤵️
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October 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Corgis Investigate to Law & Order ⤵️
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Up to 500 Million viewers today! Sunny Gavaskar and I are ready to fire up! A massive sporting event! #indiavpakistan #THEFINAL #asiacup2025🏏 @asiancricketcouncil @sonysportsnetwork Four times the SuperBowl audience!
September 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Up to 500 Million viewers today! Sunny Gavaskar and I are ready to fire up! A massive sporting event! #indiavpakistan #THEFINAL #asiacup2025🏏 @asiancricketcouncil @sonysportsnetwork Four times the SuperBowl audience!
Great to be working the comm box alongside #wasimakram #hewalkedthetalk👑 @asiancricketcouncil #asiacup2025 #UAE
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Great to be working the comm box alongside #wasimakram #hewalkedthetalk👑 @asiancricketcouncil #asiacup2025 #UAE
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chris jones: you don’t even have 100 yards!
jalen: and we won the fucking game!
😭😭😭
jalen: and we won the fucking game!
😭😭😭
September 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
chris jones: you don’t even have 100 yards!
jalen: and we won the fucking game!
😭😭😭
jalen: and we won the fucking game!
😭😭😭
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Astonishing exit velocity!!! 🚀
September 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Astonishing exit velocity!!! 🚀
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A Taste of his own medicine ... Jeff Thomson fends off a bouncer from John Snow, 2nd Ashes Test, Lord's, August 1st 1975. Coming in at 81 for 7, Thomson scored an important 17 and helped add 52 for the 8th wicket with Ross Edwards
August 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A Taste of his own medicine ... Jeff Thomson fends off a bouncer from John Snow, 2nd Ashes Test, Lord's, August 1st 1975. Coming in at 81 for 7, Thomson scored an important 17 and helped add 52 for the 8th wicket with Ross Edwards
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Jim Laker signs autographs as he leaves Old Trafford after his 19 wickets, July 31st 1956. He drove back from Manchester to London as he had a Surrey game the next day. Stopping in a pub on the way, he sat unrecognised in a corner as everyone discussed his amazing feat
July 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Jim Laker signs autographs as he leaves Old Trafford after his 19 wickets, July 31st 1956. He drove back from Manchester to London as he had a Surrey game the next day. Stopping in a pub on the way, he sat unrecognised in a corner as everyone discussed his amazing feat
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David Steele, Bob Woolmer, Phil Edmonds, and new England captain Tony Greig pictured in the nets at Lord's on the eve of the 2nd Ashes Test, July 30th 1975. Steele and Woolmer made their debuts the next day, Edmonds had to wait until the 3rd Test
July 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
David Steele, Bob Woolmer, Phil Edmonds, and new England captain Tony Greig pictured in the nets at Lord's on the eve of the 2nd Ashes Test, July 30th 1975. Steele and Woolmer made their debuts the next day, Edmonds had to wait until the 3rd Test
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Cricket on the Gunfleet Sands off the Essex coast in 1931. The game was organised by the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and took place in September when tidal conditions exposed the sandbank
July 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Cricket on the Gunfleet Sands off the Essex coast in 1931. The game was organised by the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and took place in September when tidal conditions exposed the sandbank
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Yorkshire's Norman Yardley and Hedley Verity on manoeuvres with the 1st Battalion, Green Howards in Northern Ireland in July 1941. Yardley went on to captain England after the war. Verity died in captivity on July 31st 1943 from wounds received 12 days earlier. He was 38 (IWM)
July 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yorkshire's Norman Yardley and Hedley Verity on manoeuvres with the 1st Battalion, Green Howards in Northern Ireland in July 1941. Yardley went on to captain England after the war. Verity died in captivity on July 31st 1943 from wounds received 12 days earlier. He was 38 (IWM)
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I took this as I left the pavilion about 20 minutes after the close of the remarkable first day of the 1st Test at Lord's on July 21st 2005. Shane Warne relaxes with a cigarette on the Australian balcony
July 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I took this as I left the pavilion about 20 minutes after the close of the remarkable first day of the 1st Test at Lord's on July 21st 2005. Shane Warne relaxes with a cigarette on the Australian balcony
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Dennis Lillee in the nets at Lord's ahead of the Australians match v MCC, July 2nd 1975. His batting practice did him little good as he was the third victim in a Bob Woolmer hat-trick in his only innings. But he took match figures of 10 for 132 (Patrick Eagar)
July 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Dennis Lillee in the nets at Lord's ahead of the Australians match v MCC, July 2nd 1975. His batting practice did him little good as he was the third victim in a Bob Woolmer hat-trick in his only innings. But he took match figures of 10 for 132 (Patrick Eagar)
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Does anyone really want to argue that Test cricket is not the format of the game which delivers the most?
June 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Does anyone really want to argue that Test cricket is not the format of the game which delivers the most?
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This is Hope.
Hope was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called MLS syndrome.
She is deaf and blind.
She also has a heart condition called cardiomyopathy, which makes it difficult for her heart to pump blood.
Hope was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called MLS syndrome.
She is deaf and blind.
She also has a heart condition called cardiomyopathy, which makes it difficult for her heart to pump blood.
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is Hope.
Hope was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called MLS syndrome.
She is deaf and blind.
She also has a heart condition called cardiomyopathy, which makes it difficult for her heart to pump blood.
Hope was born with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called MLS syndrome.
She is deaf and blind.
She also has a heart condition called cardiomyopathy, which makes it difficult for her heart to pump blood.
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I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.
But the FDA recently denied its approval.
Now, her health hangs in the balance.
Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
What... a... catch! 👌 #Bacchus
As we mark 50 years since the 1975 World Cup, here is the video of Rod March's famous diving catch to dismiss Tony Greig in the semi-final at Leeds ... it is a swish at a wide ball but for context Gilmour was moving the ball both ways
June 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What... a... catch! 👌 #Bacchus
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It was 50 years ago today ... Rod Marsh's spectacular catch to dismiss Tony Greig off Gary Gilmour, England v Australia, Prudential World Cup semi-final, June 18th 1975. One of the great cricket photos (Patrick Eagar)
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It was 50 years ago today ... Rod Marsh's spectacular catch to dismiss Tony Greig off Gary Gilmour, England v Australia, Prudential World Cup semi-final, June 18th 1975. One of the great cricket photos (Patrick Eagar)
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NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social:
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
May 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social:
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
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The joy of watching county cricket in the 1970s and 1980s was the number of top overseas players, and also that England's players always turned out between internationals. Few sides were better to see than Somerset with Joel Garner, Ian Botham and Viv Richards
April 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The joy of watching county cricket in the 1970s and 1980s was the number of top overseas players, and also that England's players always turned out between internationals. Few sides were better to see than Somerset with Joel Garner, Ian Botham and Viv Richards
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Everton Weekes (108*) and Frank Worrell (239*) head off at the end of the second day of the 3rd Test. England v West Indies, Trent Bridge, July 21st 1950. Their 3rd-wicket stand of 283 set West Indies on course for a ten-wicket win. Weekes made 129 and Worrell a Test-best 261
March 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Everton Weekes (108*) and Frank Worrell (239*) head off at the end of the second day of the 3rd Test. England v West Indies, Trent Bridge, July 21st 1950. Their 3rd-wicket stand of 283 set West Indies on course for a ten-wicket win. Weekes made 129 and Worrell a Test-best 261
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Some lovely film of Wes Hall's final over in the 1960 Tied Test together with interviews with Hall and Richie Benaud. Hall's shy at the stumps and dropped catch show how the pressure got to everyone involved ...
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Some lovely film of Wes Hall's final over in the 1960 Tied Test together with interviews with Hall and Richie Benaud. Hall's shy at the stumps and dropped catch show how the pressure got to everyone involved ...
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Remembering Rod Marsh who died three years ago today, here seen on his way to 110 in the Centenary Test, March 14th 1977. It was his third and final Test hundred (Patrick Eagar) #cricket
March 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Remembering Rod Marsh who died three years ago today, here seen on his way to 110 in the Centenary Test, March 14th 1977. It was his third and final Test hundred (Patrick Eagar) #cricket
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