I’ve loved cricket since I was a boy of 8 or 9 but I’ve never really had any friends or family who have shared that interest. I used to take my Aussie (ex)wife to games where she’d spend much of the day knitting. I take my current partner to games and she really doesn’t show an interest except for mild curiosity…So that’s where Twitter has come in…to fill a lonely gap.
On Twitter I follow many full time journalists, many budding journalists, many that have played or still do play the game, from village cricket all the way up to elite level. Many of these folk know a lot more about cricket than me. I’m just your casual arm chair fan I suppose. But I (for the most part) love the discussions and friendliness of the majority of the Twitter community.
I guess I’m a peripheral member of cricket Twitter (TM). A fairly occasional cricket twitterer compared to the cricket obsessed heart of the community. I’m not entirely Twitter popular, with just the 200 odd followers and I suspect many of them are bots.
Though I adore cricket my work dictates that I miss a fair chunk of it. I can’t really justify paying for multiple platforms and can’t really get away with staying up overnight to watch a Test Match down under. I really wish I could.
There are a group of about 10 Twitterers who I regularly converse with. They appear funny, friendly, knowledgeable good eggs. Some of these deal in cricket stats, when stats are very much my thing. I’m in my element.
It saddens me when members of Cricket Twitter fall out, and it’s happened a fair amount of late…there are controversial on-field and off field moments every other week with the numerous games happening right now and debates are getting way too heated
Having this community is important to me. It gives me a vocal outlet to my passion that I haven’t found in my ‘real’ life. I just hope that Twitter remains and the bickering subsides as it’s my only network to the sport I adore.
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