We’re hosting a talent ID day to help identify the next generation of football journalists.

If that’s you, you’re 18+ & based in the UK: send us 200 words on your experience to date, info about you & contact details.

📧 Email [email protected]
📅 Deadline: 5pm, May 15

First England Cricket programme of the summer featuring interviews with Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn (by Katya Witney) and Nida Dar (by Melinda Farrell). Available at Edgbaston or online pplsport.com #ENGvPAK

The ECB want to hear from you and everyone you know about where cricket is today and where it can be tomorrow.

The Big Cricket Conversation is a chance for everyone to try and shape the game's culture and values as it strives to become more inclusive.

thebigcricketconversation.co.uk

Magnificent effort from Tom Chambers, an outstanding sports journalism student Uni of East London sportsjournalism@uel. Quite the career pivot - NHS to FWA!

How do you transport #T20WorldCup pitches across the USA? 🇺🇸

The man behind the project Damian Hough explains how the pitches will be transported 2,000km from where they were grown in Florida to the new stadium in New York. 🚛

Download #BBCStumped 🔊bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

In addition to all his many achievements, Derek Underwood was the long-standing and loyal Patron of The Primary Club, the cricketers' charity that raises money for blind and vision-impaired sport/recreation, not just cricket primaryclub.org. RIP.

Also includes a 2024 summer fixtures wallchart (worth the price of admission alone) and my piece on Gloucestershire Cricket including an exclusive with new head coach and club legend Mark Alleyne

Great to be involved in this one (pod and mag) for a big whack on West Indies cricket with input from Johnny Grave, Ian Bishop and Kraigg Braithwaite. Also, Rob Smythe's feature sounds brilliant so definitely get your hands on a copy.

Today's Lunch Break newsletter by Adam Hopkins includes Sight Screen Cricket Journal on rivalries in South Asian cricket, John Stern on England's 1998 U19 World Cup win, and Wisden's five takeaways from the second #INDvENG Test.

Read it below ⬇️

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Ten years ago today, my beloved Seattle Seahawks lifted their one and, so far, only Lombardi Trophy, demolishing the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. I got to write about it in one of the following season's NFL fan in the UK programmes – a career highlight! #GoHawks

Welcome to the circus, Shoaib Bashir

theguardian.com/sport/2023/dec…

On this day in 1998, an England team featuring Owais Shah, Graeme Swann and Rob Key won the #U19WorldCup .

John Stern remembers it in Golden Summers, available now.

Buy Golden Summers: thenightwatchman.net/buy/golden-sum…

I wrote a tribute to my dear friend Mike Dickson. There were a few tear-stains on the keyboard telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/01…

In the latest edition of Wisden Cricket Monthly - out now - Travis Head spoke to Phil Walker about his Player of the Match performance in the World Cup final.

Get your copy of the magazine via the links below:
PRINT | wisden.com/shop/wisden-cr…
DIGITAL | wcmdigi.com

Yesterday, CWC remembered our former chair Pat Gibson at our annual lunch. Here friends and colleagues pay tribute to Gibbo, who died last week cricketwriters.com/pat-gibson-a-t…

Really inspiring talk today Uni of East London journalism students from Jamsheda Ahmad Young about her 20+ years at the BBC and, more importantly, how she got there and the challenges she overcame. Loads of great insights and tips for the students

On the vandalism of a volunteer public service, and a work of cricketing art - the Rob Moody YouTube channel.
theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov…

The Genius Fallacy by a genius. Another cracker from Jonathan Liew

This, by ⁦Richard Whitehead⁩, is a terrific, definitive piece on the great man

Sir Bobby Charlton CBE 1937-2023 premierleague.com/news/3744629

.Felix White and Stuart Broad are part of BBC Sport's #broadcast of the MLB Saturday Showdown this weekend on iPlayer, Red Button, and the BBC Sport website #MLB #baseball bit.ly/46F5Xs1