A thousand runs in May – can cricket’s mystical milestone be reached once more?

By Richard Thomas, Associate Professor, Journalism, Swansea University

For most old-school cricket traditionalists the new competition being foisted on them this summer – The Hundred – has only one redeeming feature. To make space for the new game, the season has been front-loaded with more traditional four-day county championship games, meaning a hectic schedule of first-class cricket in April and May before the shorter-form matches. Consequently, this year fans might see something not seen for over three decades – a batsman scoring 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.

The cricket world likes to mark achievements in multiples of fives and tens:…

Read complete article

~	‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance

~	If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production

~	Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived

~	Iran: Popular Rapper Sentenced to Death for Dissent

~	Global: Loss and Damage Fund for climate change must not restrict the role of civil society

~	The denial of Palestinian childhood

~	Detoxifying masculinity: How men’s groups reshape attitudes

~	How marketing classes can rescue ‘ugly produce’ from becoming food waste

~	EU Misses Opportunity on Frontex Transparency, Accountability

~	Honoring a Philippine Human Rights Icon