One more note coming out of Atlanta. SVG came from the back twice in the final stage to finish sixth, and he's in a Chase spot in the points standings before NASCAR's hit a road course in 2026. He's not winning the championship, but he'll be at the dance

The square leg umpire's reaction upon realising they're about to be part of a Spirit of Cricket debate

Having a nuanced discussion about anything with Americans meanwhile this is going on in their brains:

Really like when a mutual finds a new and exciting way to go faintly insane. You go, I believe in you

Boss just text our work group and asked who wants breakfast as he’s buying. Small gestures like that do mean a lot and it’s why working in the office always beats work from home. You get to learn from experienced colleagues. Unfortunately as it’s Ramadan I’ve reported him to HR.

ah mate I’m sorry, but it’s good to have some fresh faces in the club

Absolutely unreal business being done here vinted.co.uk/items/69003867…

19:07…going back for more Augsburg

More like Inter are giving us all a bozo glimpse!!!!!! (they are playing badly)

Not sure anyone had an off-season like Blaney. Got a llama, got a moustache, everyone is fascinated by both. He's right about the moment you know your tache needs a trim though, it's so annoying

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Jio's Skill Scale seems like a joke, especially when you say Tilak Varma is 33% better at power hitting than David Miller. So, we did what we do. We reverse-engineered the hell out of it. ✍️ Tanish Read it at bestofcricket.substack.com/p/jios-skill-s…

The Best of Cricket Tanish As others have noted, it's not Jio, it's Cricviz for the ICC. They did it for the 2023 ODI WC too. They have a somewhat obfuscatory explainer here. Seems to me there's a lot of subjectivity in the inputs, and probably some overfitting going on too... cricviz.com/cricviz-develo…

The Best of Cricket Tanish I have no idea how they're purporting to generate anything for Associate players given the lack of ball-tracking for almost all AM international fixtures. That may account for the laughable outputs there. Honestly though it's hard to see how they generated a product this bad.

It's like NASCAR went 'okay, we're going to make everything less confusing this year' and then realised they needed a repository for all the leftover nonsense. Hence this.

The Cubs social media team followed Nico Hoerner around at Spring Training, with Ian Happ doing a voiceover for the video. It’s absolutely fantastic 😭

Goodness me, I thought that’d be a nailbiter