If you have an account on Twitter and looking for the best cricket accounts to follow, here is a list of eight of the very best of them:
- http://twitter.com/cricinfowickets – “‘The moment a wicket falls, you’ll be notified”, says the bio on its Twitter page and it does just that. Nothing more, nothing less. When this pops up in your timeline, you immediately know that somewhere a wicket has fallen.
- http://twitter.com/testcricket – Brings you Test, ODI and T20 cricket scores. A bit like the previous one, but @testcricket also gives you updates of the scoreline if no wickets are falling, which makes it better account to follow a match.
- http://twitter.com/Cricinfo_news – Headlines from the best cricket website there is.
- http://twitter.com/KamranAbbasi – Cricket writer Kamran Abbasi. Combines a great love for Pakistan cricket with a uncompromisable critical look on everything it does and brings. Also author of the great blog Pak Spin, Abbasi is an active Twitterer who likes to interact with his followers.
- http://twitter.com/Aggerscricket – BBC journalist Jonathan Agnew, one of Test Match Special’s finest. His tweets have a bit of that TMS-style about them, so if you like the program, you probably enjoy his tweets. And who doesn’t like TMS? Also a fine channel to interact with the team during Test matches.
- http://twitter.com/BumbleCricket – And who doesn’t like David ‘Bumle’ Lloyd? Part of Sky Sports’ cricket commentary team and an active Twitterer. Lloyd is another who will interact with his followers and answer your questions or use your feedback during commentary.
- http://twitter.com/the_topspin – Lawrence Booth, writer for the Daily Mail and his great newsletter The Topspin (sign up here). Provides small but useful bits of analyses and background during matches. Like Abbasi and Lloyd, Booth also will respond to your questions and remarks.
- http://twitter.com/Swannyg66 – Graeme Swann is the only cricketer on the list, because he is the funniest and most original of the lot. This was his Tweet about an ugly England collapse: “As a unit, we England bowlers realised that the second session would be the one to bowl in. That’s why we cleverly all got out this am”. And on running out Matt Prior: “I’m only sad I had to take matty prior down with us. Don’t worry though, after only five left hooks we are friends again.”
Know some really good ones that should make this list? Let me know in the comments and if I agree, I’ll do an update.
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Pretty helpful Arno. I’m on Twitter but not following any of these.
Swann is een cricket speler die ik niet kan verdragen, maar ik moet toegeven dat zijn tweets heel interessant zijn.
Ben jij on Twitter?
Thanks Sunny.
I have two accounts actually. One for this blog – @cricketblognl – and a personal one, @arnoboerman.
So what’s wrong with Swann?
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Well Swann is quite a popular hate figure in the cricket blogosphere, so it was tempting not to join this trend.
But I actually started disliking him during the England tour to South Africa in 2010, he was bloody good in that series and I couldn’t stand that since I was supporting SA. I know it’s an irrational reason.
Btw, I never asked you, which team in cricket do you support considering Holland isn’t a Test team?
England! Except when they’re playing Holland off course
Out of those, I only follow Cricinfo news, BumbleCricket and top spin.
I’m with Sunny, I can’t bear to follow Swann.
Bumble hasn’t tweeted as much as he used to do – I hope he isn’t losing interest.
Cricinfowickets would get annoying if you already knew about the wickets, but I guess it would come in handy one day.
Can’t bear Swanny? What is up with everybody? Probably taken a lot of wickets against your favorite team also ..
About Bumble, it woulde be a shame if he loses interest. I think he’s brilliant and I got some replies once from him on a question about Trott taking guard. Very nice of him and also insightful.
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