The Lake District Book Festival starts on Friday! Join my event on Silk Mirage + #Uzbekistan w Nicholas Wood on Saturday, + much more over what is going to be a fantastic weekend! Tickets here. Photo shows the incredible solar furnace at Parkent
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visiting Khoja Ahmad Yasavi
Replace Ben Stokes for the summer with a Division One captain who can bat 7: Jonny Bairstow or John Simpson. Consider Stokes for selection on merit as a bowler from next year.
Drop Gus Atkinson for the series. Replace him with a seam bowling number 8: Craig Overton or Jordan Clark.
Enough now.
I thought the U2 goalkeeper played for Morocco?
I don't speak much German, but that's most certainly a dank hat.
BREAKING: Harry Brook to be named as England Test captain.
"He is widely respected by team-mates", an ECB source has commented. "We thank Ben for all his efforts, but feel that Harry can find better nightclubs going forward."
Brook's tenure is due to begin at The Lightbox on Thursday night.
Good from the second funniest man from Hurstpierpoint.
BREAKING: Details have emerged that four New Zealand cricketers didn't bring their empty flat white cups back to the counter at an independent coffee shop in Pimlico the day after the first Test. One player is said to have taken a chair from a neighbouring table for their small child without asking.
I've spent a lot of my life measuring experiences by how far they are away from home, and I haven't been the most patriotic person. But there's something about England's little old-fashioned seaside towns that I now absolutely love. This is Cromer in Norfolk, on a drizzly June day. Nowhere lovelier.
Joanna Lillis
I've just realised what bat Emilio Gay uses. Surely his sponsors can make him some customised Gay-Nicolls stickers for the next Test?
#TheCricket #ENGvNZ 🏏
