Isabelle Westbury @izzywestbury Twitter profile

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Isabelle Westbury

9 days

It’s been a minute. A privilege to have served w/ @RAFMiddleEast these last few months. Now off to lie under a rock for a bit. TTFN. 🫡

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

A story in four parts. #itscominghome

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2 years

Alright then, visa approved: Pakistan next week for #PAKvAUS . Cannot wait.

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@izzywestbury

2 years

Maradonna at 60, George Best at 59 but Shane Warne at 52. All feels mad.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

5 years

“Eoin, do you think you had the luck of the Irish with you today?” [Laughing] “Well, Adil said we had Allah on our side too, so we had that as well. It’s the rub of the green. “It’s also reflective of our team; we’re a diverse side & we brought that togethr today.” #CWC19Final

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 months

Chaps I hate to say it but we have a sequel. #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

New hat to the collection! And it's the best of the lot. The hospitality we've received in Rawalpindi is second to none. Such a privilege to be here. @1116sen #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Oh hello just *look* at the number of men all of a sudden now tweeting about women's cricket. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

The only thing this pitch does is distinguish the best from the rest. Foakes with the gloves; Ashwin with the ball; Kohli with the bat. Which, tbh, is exactly what you'd want conditions to do: demonstrate ridiculous skill. Enjoy it. #INDvENG

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@izzywestbury

2 years

A minute's silence for the victims of the Peshawar attacks and for Shane Warne at the Rawalpindi stadium this morning. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Pakistan, you beauty. A privilege to have borne witness to a small part of history. Congratulations & good luck to all involved for the rest, both now and long into the future. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

If the batter is attempting to gain an unfair advantage, it is absolutely legitimate to try and prevent it. Superb stuff, India. Love it. #ENGvIND

Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Omg this is absolutely glorious. It's out. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Wonderful to be in Pakistan. Such a warm welcome. So much so that I hope that my brilliant Australia-based colleague & friend @beastieboy07 , an astute observer of all cricket, anywhere, between any nation, is soon granted his visa to cover the #PAKvAUS series as only he can.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

God give me the confidence of Virat Kohli, on the verge of reviewing having been clean bowled. #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Holy shit the BCCI have just announced a full women's IPL.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

England spent more days in isolation to enter Australia than it took them to lose the #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

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2 years

Mithali Raj is both the best and worst thing about Indian cricket rnow. #NZvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Lol. You wait a whole winter of cricket for a century opening stand and Pakistan literally do it at the first time of asking. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

1 year

On the contrary, this is glorious. The run out, the strut, the headband... the damn friggin mic drop. You go queen, imma right behind you. 👑

Aatif Nawaz

@AatifNawaz

1 year

I get that it's legal. I get that it's part of the rules. But a tiny piece of my heart breaks seeing this happen at U19s level. I guess this is where the game is going...

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Isabelle Westbury

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2 years

Love that #PAKvAUS series trophy has Benaud-Qadir names to it. Benaud only played 4Ts v Pak, but all were in Pak & he led that brilliant '59 tour, where an incredibly slow day 4 of the 3rd T was famously watched by US Pres Eisenhower. First & last US Pres to watch Test cricket...

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

10 months

The one on the left was labelled "Quick-thinking Foakes stumps Balbirnie". The same news site asks whether Bairstow's dismissal is “The most controversial moment of the Ashes so far?" #fairgame

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Pakistan's Interior Minister, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, is at Rawalpindi. Emphasises Head of State security for proposed NZ, Eng & Aus tours. Refers to "some ppl, esp. the Indians"(!) not being happy the tour is proceeding & "w/ the happiness of Pakistani ppl, who r cricket lovers."

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Women's tennis should be five sets and women's Test cricket should go five days. Cheers, bye. #ausopen

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

1 year

Some news... After yrs working in int'l criminal law, earlier this yr I took the leap into conflict law (timing) & commissioned as a @RoyalAirForce Legal Officer. Yes, I have a sword. No, I don't fly the planes. And no, I'm still not gd w/ heirarchy. Also, hence little cricket.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

5 years

Steve Smith fast becoming the Ellyse Perry of men's cricket. #ENGvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

I mean, where is Pujara.

BCCI

@BCCI

3 years

TEAM - Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd Shami. #TeamIndia

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

There is something quite special about Mohammed Siraj, the son of a Hyderabad auto-rickshaw driver, bowling his side to victory amongst the popping champagne corks of Lord's. What. A. Game. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

The real Junction Oval. #PAKvAUS 😍

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Everyone's talking about all the chaps and their uniforms but there's only one showstopper

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Jimmy Anderson > Tom Brady. #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

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3 years

Sports personality of the year or it's all a fix. #raducanu

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

1 year

Okay if Pakistan win the WC then the Netherlands should rock up to the trophy lifting and pull a full John Terry. It's the least they deserve. #NZvPAK

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

I would pay incredibly good money to watch Ravichandran Ashwin deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Omg this is absolutely glorious. It's out. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

4 years

The yorker king. 🙌🏼

Saj Sadiq

@SajSadiqCricket

4 years

The end of an era - as Umar Gul retires from cricket #NationalT20Cup #Cricket

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Imam-ul-Haq joins David Steele, Clive Lloyd and Nicole Bolton as my favourite bespectacled batters. Jack Leach an honorary mention for the greatest four-eyed caresser of important singles. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Nice of Novak Djokovic to ensure that England men's Test cricket team are not the most disappointing foreign athletes currently in Australia.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

In honour of T20's most successful journeyman embarking on his 10th T20 title chase with RCB... ...Dan Christian as soft drinks: a thread 👇🏻 Coca-Cola. #IPL2021

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

"This tour is more than just about cricket. It is a result of teamwork, sincerity and mutual respect." Faisal Hasnain, PCB CEO. 24 years. Goosebump stuff. Just an hour away. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

So India's chaps used to dominate world hockey before they became so ridiculous at cricket. Doing both just doesn't seem fair, tbh. #INDvGBR

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

The best thing the English did this winter was to ensure Usman Khawaja got back to the stage on which he belongs: Test cricket. You're welcome. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Illegal to be this good at cricket, look like Adonis and be so compassionate, switched on and ultimately downright generous. ♥️

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Searching "six-day Test" and now Google thinks I'm pregnant, smh. #WTCFinal

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Mum approves of Dinesh Karthik and that's all you need to know. #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

There are currently no women's Test matches on any confirmed schedule, anywhere, for any nation. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Rishabh Pant, the hero we don't deserve. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Marnus Labuschagne is the kind of character for whom the term "in small doses" was created. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

The player of the match award is a belt buckle from the Australian indigenous tour of England in 1868. Feels pretty much spot on that it be given to only the second man, of 463 to play Tests for Aus, who is of Aboriginal origin. Spine-tingling stuff. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

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2 years

Pakistan tele are showing the climax of the opening #NZvWI match of the #CWC22 during the #PAKvAUS lunch break and yep, the media lunchroom liked that Henry grab.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Shane Warne's management have confirmed that he has just died of a suspected heart attack at 52. CA and the Aus men's Test team yet to release a statement as they've just arrived back at the team hotel after day 1 of the 1st #PAKvAUS . Expecting more imminently.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Kohli karnage looooool, this is just funny now. #INDvPAK

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

It took >287 overs to get to double figure wickets. For the match. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Well the women are playing their 1st home Test in 2 yrs on a used wicket, 'cos there was a men's T20 Blast match on it last wk. "Obviously not ideal," says Heather Knight, ever the diplomat. Tried to change it. Request denied. I'm not a diplomat: bloody shambles, imo. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Sophia Dunkley has just been presented with a Test cap. First black woman to play Test cricket for England. Momentous. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Bumrah century of Test wickets. Not long before he gets one with the bat, too. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 months

Oh Christ he’s now taken 4 wickets for fewer runs than he got hit for in those 4 balls and I ain’t even gonna talk about the state he left the likes of Root and Stokes in. I take it all back, I take it all back. 🫢 #ENGvIND

Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 months

Bumrah got hit for more runs in four balls there than Anderson conceded in half a day yesterday… #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

There is... so much wrong with the world, with cricket and this Ashes... but here's a dad with his two daughters peeking through the SCG nets at a couple of Aussie batters. And this is what I'm here for. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Crying inside, but cor what a lovely moment to commentate on. A privilege. #ashes

Triple M Cricket

@triplemcricket

2 years

Here's the moment Usman Khawaja brought up his 💯 at the SCG!

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

And yes, obviously I was so harrowed by the Ashes that I've just decided to join the Australian press pack. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, yada yada... But really, I just wanted any excuse to go. I've found it. Happy, happy days.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

An utter flipping fantastic privilege to call. These cricketers are phenomenal. Madness. I've lost my voice. @bbctms 👇🏼 #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Nice of the England boys to get this Test match finished just before England women start their series 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

4 years

Soooo... this is when @CountyChamp cricket comes into its own, right? Low crowd numbers, non-contact sport, huge open space... All other sports comps cease and county cricket will be the only sporting event still going, live on terrestrial tv. Finally, our time has come.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

1 year

Yeh but it's no biscuit trophy, is it? #PAKvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

England men's cricket team just proving Newton's Third Law of Motion: for every brilliant red-ball result, there is an equally catastrophic and opposite white-ball result. And never the twain shall meet. The end. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Joe Root has been hit in the "abdomen". Again. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Blondes do indeed have way more fun 😂😂😂

Ali Gul Pir

@Aligulpir

2 years

I love how at a cricket match, this reporter finds a way to ask a white lady “why ain’t you cooking at home?” Because why should she be working when it’s pakora time #auratmarch #march8internationalwomensday #YouKnowSamosa #pakora #samosa #triangle Original video in thread

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Isabelle Westbury

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2 years

The novelty has worn off. Soz. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

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2 years

17 attempts and not a single England team have registered a win in Australia this winter. Now, where's that drink? #ashes 👋🏽

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 months

Root pre-Bazball: avg. 49.2 @ 54.7 SR. Root in Bazball: avg. 51.5 @ 74.8 SR. Bazball suits Joe Root just fine. #INDvENG

Test Match Special

@bbctms

2 months

Thoughts? #BBCCricket #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Pope and Root at the crease, is it? #INDvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

7 years

Pakistan are the inverse of South Africa: never look like winning a tournie & yet always manage to scarper through to final stages. #PAKvSL

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

After Haris Rauf, Fawad Ahmed is the 2nd from the PSL's Lahore Qalanders in the #PAKvAUS playing/coaching contingent to test +ve for Covid. Hope a) he's okay and b) it doesn't take out anyone else.l

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

India's women cricketers told they will receive prize money from T20 World Cup by end of week I love my job.

India's women cricketers told they will receive prize money from T20 World Cup by end of week

Exclusive: The news comes after Telegraph Sport revealed the team has not been paid the £350,000 prize money owed to it by the BCCI

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Some professional news 👇🏽 I've left my Telegraph & BBC roles. Won't be covering live cricket this summer. Pursuing a long-held ambition outside sport. Love cricket; want to continue to. Looking forward to watching more women thrive in sports journalism - industry needs 'em ✌🏽

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

What utterly delightful overcast conditions. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Wouldn't be the first high profile cricketer to care more about rhinos than other human beings, either.

Caribbean Cricket Podcast

@CaribCricket

3 years

Worth reminding people, De Kock has no problem with symbols. When he got a century vs the West Indies this summer he showed solidarity with Rhinos. He clearly draws the line at anti-racism solidarity. You lot dress it up how you want

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Maroof, Maroof... Maroof was on fire. #AUSvPAK 🙌🏽

Pakistan Cricket

@TheRealPCB

2 years

Captain @maroof_bismah returns unbeaten on 78 - highest score by our woman batter against Australia. Pakistan post 190-6 with 99-run stand between Bismah (78 off 122, 8 fours) and @aliya_riaz37 (53 off 109, 4 fours) being the highlight. #AUSvPAK #TeamPakistan #BackOurGirls

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3 years

Choose your Che. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

An England captain? Scoring runs? While everyone around them falls, you say? Nah, not seen that before. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Notable how the cricketers from each of Pakistan & India, & indeed the majority of the *cricket* media, are so magnanimous towards each other. Everything I've seen, and read, of past encounters suggests this is almost always the case. The jingoistic noise is external. #INDvPAK

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

10 months

Honestly I hate standing up for the Aussies as much as the next person but my gawd, they play hard, ruthlessly & are damn good at it. The English aren’t the moral arbiters of the game and Christ if we were we’d be as flakey as the next nation. Umps & laws are there for a reason.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

I've never wanted to cry in a Test match as much as I do right now. Hameed, my soul, it breaks. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

If you read my cricket coverage, and the only comment that you have is over the terminology used to describe cricketers who bat, ask yourself why the fuck you are watching cricket in the first place. 🙄

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Can't quite express how disappointing the reasons cited by the ECB to pull out of this tour are. Either an abject failure of communication or a poor decision with little regard for the implications to Pakistan cricket. 😞

Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Gutted #PAKvENG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Alex Hales would be a useful JRoy sub. #T20WorldCup

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

For those shouting "spirit of cricket" @ me, pls provide a definition of what you think this is and how attempting to gain an unfair advantage, as the batter was, is within that definition. Ta.

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

5 years

Make it your screensaver, your desktop background, your phone case, plaster it across your flippin walls kids that is the best catch you will see this season in an England shirt. Don’t Ben Stokes me. #ENGvWI 🤫

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

The band, the band is back together. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Stuart Broad since the onset of the pandemic... • with headband: 33w for 519r @ 15.7 • without headband: 6w for 244r @ 40.7 The only statistics you need, tbh. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Jemimah 🤝🏽 Babar = cover-drive perfection. #AUSvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Mitchell Starc was celebrating that wicket before it had even reached Burns' bat. He just knew. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Exclusive: India women cricketers still owed 'life-changing' prize money by BCCI from 2020 World Cup. 14 months ago.

India women cricketers still owed 'life-changing' prize money from 2020 World Cup

BCCI under yet more pressure over its treatment of women's team

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Australia's Tayla Vlaeminck is bowling just under 120kph, which is... faster than Ollie Robinson in Hobart. #ashes

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

When Australian captain Riche Benaud saw US President Eisenhower wearing a Pakistan blazer, gifted to him by the team, Benaud jokingly remarked: "Mr President… you have joined the other camp." #PAKvAUS

Adam Collins

@collinsadam

2 years

Check out Kat’s TV clobber. He’s on @1116sen now with @izzywestbury , Waqar Younis and Rob Key to join through the session. #PAKvAUS

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Isabelle Westbury

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5 years

Gulbadin, who got hit for 10 off his last over, bringing himself back on for the final over to defend 6 is club captain shithousery at its best. #PAKvAFG

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

@MichaelVaughan And done in three. This one will likely be over in four. One of many examples. Just seems a real shame that this is persistently focused on when Eng tour the subcontinent. Conversation needs to move on imo ( #onon ?)

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

Anyhoo, I've had a fabulous day at the cricket. Well done India, I for one thought it was all rather wonderful. #ENGvIND

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

5 months

Still laughing that Australia won and that Pat Cummins was left awkwardly alone standing on the stage as king of the world. I love cricket. #cwc23

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

Sorry lads but if players don't want to be in an environment cos of covid concerns why *wouldn't you* hop on the first flight out of there, which appears to be what has happened. Convenience doesn't mean causation. Very okay with India's players going to IPL. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

3 years

So many haters of a tried and tested tactic, though. #EURO2020

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Isabelle Westbury

@izzywestbury

2 years

I like England Men's new Managing Director. Listens intently to all the right people, I'm told. 👌🏽

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