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๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”— The loneliness of the English spinner: Mason Crane bemoans a world of survival

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The Glamorgan leg-spinner, who played a single Test at the end of the 2017/18 Ashes, says we always favour the seamers in this country

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Allโ€™s well โ€ฆ sort of โ€ฆ the match ended in a draw although at on point CricViz switched to giving Glamorgan a 40% victory chance. Interesting, could have gone either way ๐Ÿค”

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Glamorgan 302 (Ingram 103) and 218-5 dec (Ingram 75, Carlson 53; Bess 4-87)

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Yorkshire 226 (Revis 50; Crane 5-55) and 239-7 (Lyth 97;...

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Tea Day 4. Yorkshire trail by 169 but have only lost 1 wicket. CricViz giving a 81% chance of a draw, 19% of a Yorkshire win ๐Ÿ

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Getting a little worried that Glamorgan declared too early. Yorkshire scoring quite quickly ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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Sophia Gardens. ๐Ÿ“

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Glamorgan 302ao and 218/5dec

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Yorkshire 226ao and 79/1

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Match is heading for a draw

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On Saturday, Day 2 of the Glamorgan v Yorkshire match, I took an old digital camera (Olympus SZ-14) with me to the ground. The 24x optical zoom lens did give some slightly sharper and closer-up photos than my phone could provide. As a quick test of the camera I quite liked the some of the results.

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๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ“ธ

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Glamorgan v Yorkshire

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Today is Day 4. I will be heading for Sophia Gardens in a couple of hours.

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As it stands before play starts today Glamorgan are 302ao and 111/3 after 45 overs of their 2nd innings. Yorkshire scored 226ao in their 1st innings.

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According to the BBC, Crane five-for gives Glamorgan edge...

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Glamorgan all out for 302.

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Glamorgan 250/7 after 93 overs

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Glamorgan 224/7 after 82.4 overs

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Century for Colin Ingram. Gets to 103 then out next ball โ€ฆ

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Glamorgan get to their 200

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200/6 after 78.2 overs

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Colin Ingram on 93 now

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Glamorgan, batting first for a short time yesterday, started today on 99/4. Lunch Day 2 now and theyโ€™re 169/5 after 67 overs ๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿ

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Sophia Gardens. ๐Ÿ“

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Glamorgan v Yorkshire Day 2

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At Sophia Gardens for the first time this season ๐Ÿ

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Iโ€™ll be playing The Cricket Draft - @thecricketdraft on Twitter and Bluesky - again this year ๐Ÿ

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Team name Seagulls & Sardines - initial squad along the lines of

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but Iโ€™ll be keeping an eye on the playing XIs.

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Iโ€™ve also set up a small public league, Cow Corner. Join code 8ec2bf5a2f31

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The 2026 County Championship starts today ๐Ÿ

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I hope to go to at least a dayโ€™s cricket at Sophia Gardens this long Easter weekend, but not today (Good Friday, 3rd April) because the weather forecast for Cardiff is potentially a little rainy!

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๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”— Darren Lehmann: England players do not play enough county cricket

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Back to some cricket. The English County Championship starts in a few days - 3rd April, Good Friday - but the IPL 2026 started yesterday. The first match Iโ€™m going to watch has just started - Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders ๐Ÿ

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T20 World Cup Final - India beat New Zealand by 96 runs.

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New Zealand 88-5 after 10 overs, so everything is going Indiaโ€™s way.

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India 255-5 set New Zealand 256 to win. Not a good final over for New Zealand. Almost a repeat of the England semi-final but I donโ€™t think New Zealandโ€™s batting is as good. Weโ€™ll see.

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New Zealand pulling it back a bit - India 211-4 after 17 overs.

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India past 200 with 5 overs to go โ€ฆ

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India 92-0 after the 6 over powerplay ๐Ÿ‘

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ICC Menโ€™s T20 World Cup Final ๐Ÿ

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New Zealand ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ v ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India

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India batting first and making a very strong start: 82-0 after 5.2 overs!

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