An open letter sent out by one of the leagues local to me, who are "increasingly concerned about the rising number of reports involving poor behaviour during matches" hertspremiercl.co.uk/article/564/An…

Hard to believe it's 20 years...

What were you doing in the summer of 2005? The Cricketer's team wind the clock back thecricketer.com/Topics/ashes-p…

The Crown in Birmingham - birthplace of Black Sabbath - needs to be saved from its negligent owners and revived #OzzyOsbourne

Where Saif Zaib has just passed 50, and is closing in on being the first to pass 1,000 first-class runs for the season (not to put the mockers on him)

The tension... Saif Zaib 12 away from 1,000 FC runs this season at Merchant Taylors' ... Dom Sibley just 4 away up in Scarborough

Dom Sibley had just won the race to 1,000 first-class runs for the season, with an on-drive for 4 off Will Sutherland at Scarborough. Saif Zaib of Northants an agonising 3 runs shy while batting down at Merchant Taylors'...

Saif Zaib is congratulated by his team-mates as he returns to the Merchant Taylors' away gazebo after rain - the first Northants player to score 1,000 first-class runs since Ben Duckett in 2016

I got rather excited about the race to 1,000, not least when the Vicar was slowing down up at Scarborough. Sibley won the race, but it does not dim the achievement of Saif Zaib

Essential reading (and viewing) on the Kookaburra ball by Nick Friend Looks OK, but according to our intrepid correspondent it feels quite soft

As the rain falls in London it's sweltering north of St Albans, I can tell you. Including a cathartic hundred for Rob Keogh after a very difficult 18 months struggling with various things. Northants - shock horror - piling on the runs!

One, two, three, fo(u)r, five. #ENGvIND

The new edition of ⁦The Cricketer⁩ features my obituary of Wayne Larkins ⁦Northamptonshire CCC⁩ ⁦Durham Cricket⁩ - I hope it does him justice. Also a cracking piece by ⁦David Griffin Photography⁩ on Eddie Barlow of ⁦Derbyshire CCC⁩ and ⁦Proteas Men⁩ fame.

Some great interviews in our Summer special! 🏏@Tregs140 Jack Russell MBE & his youth coaches on the making of Jamie Smith 🏏England's comms man Danny Reuben 🏏Ellyse Perry on Hampshire Cricket stint + Paul Edwards in our outground special David Griffin Photography on his hero Eddie Barlow

Sad news. Brian Adams gave me chapter and verse for Evita Burned Down our Pavilion on the incredible 1970 New Zealand Ambassadors World Tour (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, West Indies, Portugal, Gibraltar, England, Bermuda, USA) canterburycricket.org.nz/news/rememberi…

A posed shot for The Cricketer ahead of the 2nd Ashes Test at Lord's in 1975. Three of those pictured (John Edrich, David Steele and John Snow) did not play against after the 1976 home series v West Indies, while new England skipper Tony Greig only lasted until 1977 (P Eagar)

Hint of a tear in my eye... Imagine I'm not alone. #ENGvIND

I trust Sanjog Gupta is watching this match #ENGvIND

I can only assume that Italian cricket has got wind of this! Federazione Cricket

A fitting tribute from Test Match Special to the incomparable Joe Wilson - a man of integrity & master of scripting who’s filed his final piece from the Test (on the 6 shortly), & bids farewell to the BBC today. Will be hugely missed by colleagues & the many who loved his reports 👂⬇️