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  1. History at Lord's as Kranti Gaud becomes the first woman to take a place on the test match honours board - Bell spectacularly caught by Shafali Verma for 3. England 162-9, Gaud 15.2-6-33-5.
    #cricket #WomensCricket #TestCricket #CricketHistory #EnglandvIndia #ENGvIND

  2. Jammu and Kashmir Reaches First Cricket Final After 67 Years by Beating Bengal

    Jammu and Kashmir cricket team made history by reaching the Ranji Trophy final for the first time in 67 years after defeating Bengal. Learn how they did it.

    #RanjiTrophy #CricketHistory #JammuAndKashmir #BengalCricket #CricketFinal

    newsletter.tf/how-jammu-and-ka

  3. Our August publications are now available in the @acscricket shop at shop.acscricket.com/

    They include a History of Cricket in Suffolk from its 18th-century origins to the T20 era shop.acscricket.com/?product=y and the story of Western Australia's great batsman Ernest Parker, an enigmatic figure who was killed in the First World War. shop.acscricket.com/?product=e

    #CricketBooks #CricketHistory #Suffolk #WesternAustralia

  4. If you aren't following @acscricket on Substack yet, there's a new incentive: John Ward's detailed match reports from 100 Years Ago, which members of the ACS members forum have been enjoying for four years, have begun to appear on the ACS Substack this week!

    In July 1924, the South Africans are touring, and we're waiting to find out whether anyone can stop Yorkshire defending their Championship title...

    acscricket.substack.com/

    #CricketHistory

  5. Kent Cricketers A-Z: Part Three, by Derek Carlaw, is now available in pdf format on the ACS website, acscricket.com. It includes statistics by John Winnifrith.

    It covers the 176 Kent cricketers who made their first-class debuts between 1946 and 1999.

    See acscricket.com/?page_id=1503 for a link to this and the previous two volumes.

    #KentCricket #CricketHistory #CricketStatistics

  6. Also on youtube.com/@acscricket, Pat Rodgers and Rodney Ulyate discuss two fine wicketkeepers: Hammy Love, who played a single Test for Australia in 1932/33, and Ted Pooley, who notoriously missed the very first Test when England toured Australia in 1876/77, after being arrested.

    youtube.com/watch?v=P2-NMNtsNO

    Pat wrote about Hammy Love in the August issue of the ACS journal, The Cricket Statistician, and Rodney about Ted Pooley in November shop.acscricket.com/?product_c

    #CricketHistory #CricketPodcast

  7. We've a couple of new podcasts on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@acscricket).

    Jeremy Lonsdale talks about his book 'No Picnic: The historic first MCC tour of India and Ceylon 1926/27' which tells the story of a 'naively-planned and gruelling tour' led by Arthur Gilligan - on sale in the @acscricket shop at shop.acscricket.com/?product=n

    youtube.com/watch?v=U-hQ9_kjbW

    #CricketHistory #CricketPodcast

  8. About 2km of film documenting Australia in the 1930s and 1940s discovered in Perth and digitised. Film includes historic coverage of #crickethistory Good to see that the original is being donated to the National Film and Sound Archive!
    #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2023-06-27/arc

  9. About 2km of film documenting Australia in the 1930s and 1940s discovered in Perth and digitised. Film includes historic coverage of #crickethistory Good to see that the original is being donated to the National Film and Sound Archive!
    #OzHist

    abc.net.au/news/2023-06-27/arc

  10. New on my #blog: aspi.blog/2023/05/17/all-time-
    A look at the best players from before the inauguration of the County Championship, a comment on the news about England's test selections for the one off match against Ireland and a substantial photo gallery.
    #cricket #photography #birds #insects #TestCricket #CricketHistory