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Cross and Hartley get death threats and abuse for critising for schedule

Cross and Hartley get death threats and abuse for critising for schedule

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3 min readJul 2, 2026 05:25 PM IST Former England cricketer Kate Cross, who called the ICC’s arrangements for scheduling the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup “ridiculous,” said she has received death threats and abuse online. “We’ve been getting death threats and abuse online,” Alex Hartley said on the latest episode of No Balls: The Cricket Podcast, which she co-hosts with Cross. “I woke up this morning to post about the ICC scheduling for the semi-finals to 450 comments on that Instagram post. Normally, we will get 30 per post. There’s been a little bit of confusion because what we said doesn’t warrant death threats and abuse,” Cross said. The semifinals for the World Cup are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday this week. While the top team in Group A would face the second team in Group B in Thursday’s knockout clash, it was the other way around. However, the rule also stated that if India qualified for the semifinal, they would play that semifinal on Tuesday against the top team in Group A—a stipulation …

Alex Hartley on England women’s team after her fitness comments: ‘Sophie Ecclestone refused to do a TV interview with me’ | Cricket News

Alex Hartley on England women’s team after her fitness comments: ‘Sophie Ecclestone refused to do a TV interview with me’ | Cricket News

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While England women have lost the Ashes with the loss in the first T20I against Australia earlier this week, former England spinner Alex Hartley has claimed that the Heather Knight led England women’s team have refused interviews to her and she has been ‘hung out to dry’. Hartley, who played 28 ODIs and eight T20Is for England, is part of BBC and TNT Sports commentary team in Australia, had played along with some English cricketers including Sophie Ecclestone, whom she accused of refusing an interview with her. Last year, Hartely had criticised the England team post their loss against West Indies in the T20 World Cup terming ‘a handful of England players are letting the team down with below par standards of fitness’. “Sophie Ecclestone refused to do a TV interview with me today. I’ve been hung out to dry by the England team: none of them will talk to me on the boundary edge. The reason I said that they were not as fit as Australia is because I want them to compete with …

Justin Hartley Has One REGRET About His This Is Us Character; Here’s What Actor Claims

Justin Hartley Has One REGRET About His This Is Us Character; Here’s What Actor Claims

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Justin Hartley is reflecting on one of his well-known characters. The actor played Kevin Pearson in the 2016 series This Is Us. During his appearance on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on Max, he revealed that the audience largely misunderstood his character and expressed empathy for the role he portrayed on screen.   In the story, Kevin is portrayed as an arrogant and selfish teenager struggling with emotional issues. In contrast, the adult version of his character, Randall, played by Sterling K. Brown, gained popularity and presented a milder version of Kevin.  While conversing, the actor revealed, “When you take on characters, a lot of times they become your children and your friends, part of you. And so you sort of feel that.” He further added, “It was just like, the guy can’t get out of his own way, but he’s not a bad guy, but everyone thinks he’s kind of an a–hole, you know what I mean? But he’s really not.” Hartley starred in the NBC series alongside Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Milo Ventimiglia, and Susan …

Tom Hartley Joins The Unwanted Record List After Series Loss vs India

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England left-arm spinner Tom Hartley conceded the second-highest runs by a visiting bowler in a Test series against India during the fifth and final Test at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium on Saturday. Hartley conceded 795 runs in the five matches he played in the series against India. He is just behind teammate Adil Rashid, who conceded 861 runs in the series back in 2016. India defeated England by an innings and 64 runs in 5th Test. Coming to the match, a five-wicket haul on his 100th Test by Ravichandran Ashwin broke the back of England’s batting line-up, handling the Three Lions’ ‘Bazball’ school of cricket one final blow as India won the fifth and final Test by an innings and 64 runs at Dharamsala on Saturday. India has won the series 4-1. Despite some promising moments and performances by England throughout the series, the Indian bowling and its youth brigade did not let the ‘Bazball’ conquer what was described as the ‘Final Frontier’ for skipper Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum after a lengthy …

PSL’s first women’s coach Alex Hartley: ‘Everyone has been so welcoming … Want to learn some Hindi and Urdu words too’ | Cricket News

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Endless meetings. It is the only part that Alex Hartley, spin bowling coach of PSL franchise Multan Sultans, dislikes. “There are separate meetings for batting, bowling and fielding, which I am still finding tough to deal with,” Hartley tells The Indian Express. She and former Ireland player Catherine Dalton, a fast bowling coach, have been the first female coaches in the league’s history. Hartley, who has played 28 ODIs and four T20Is for England between 2016 and 2019, and also broke millions hearts in the 2017 World Cup final when she took Harmanpreet Kaur’s wicket, says the experience has been incredible. “Everyone is welcoming and understanding. Ali (Tareen, the franchise owner) has broken boundaries. When he rang me and told me I need you at Multan Sultans, I just couldn’t turn it down. It’s a lot more than cricket,” says Hartley. Hartley with the spin bowlers of Multan Sultans She worried if everyone would respect her, or understand the culture she was from. “As soon as I arrived, we had a team meeting. Ali sat …

“Joy To Watch,” Says England Great As Indian Batters Struggle Against Spinners Shoaib Bashir And Tom Hartley In Ranchi Test

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England spinners Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley dominated proceedings on the second day of the fourth Test against India in Ranchi. On a surface where the guests posted a total of 353 before being bundled out, hosts India failed to replicate it, at least on the second day of the game. Despite Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring 73 runs, India were reduced to 177 for 7. It was an unbroken 42-run partnership between Dhruv Jurel (30) and Kuldeep Yadav (17) for the eighth wicket that saved India’s blushes on the day. England’s off-spinner Bashir was the wrecker-in-chief with figures of 4 for 84, while left-arm orthodox Hartley scalped 2 for 47 on the day. Extremely pleased by the dominance of the England spinners against Indian batters on latter’s soil, former captain of the Three Lions, Michael Vaughan said that that it was “a joy to watch”. “2 young England spinners confusing Indian players in which way to play in their own backyard is a joy to watch .. I don’t think Bashir has bowled 1 …

Peter Hartley accuses Real Kashmir’s Shaher Shaheen of spitting

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During the heated encounter between Real Kashmir and Inter Kashi in the I-League today, accusations flew as Peter Heartly, a player for Inter Kashi, alleged that Shaher Shaheen of Real Kashmir spat on his face. Peter Heartly’s frustration peaked when he was shown a red card for vehemently urging the referee to take action against Shaheer Shaheen following the alleged spitting incident. Real Kashmir’s equalizer during injury time further fueled the tension surrounding the game. Taking to Twitter to express his dismay, Peter Heartly, a seasoned professional with 17 years in the footballing arena, decried the incident, stating, “17 years I’ve played professional football. Today I was spat into my face by number 16 of Real Kashmir. I’ve played in India for 4 years. This is not acceptable in our sport and certainly not acceptable in this country. I will be exploiting the options to report this player.” Watch: 🚨Controversy in I-League match between Inter Kashi and Real Kashmir🚨 Defender Peter Hartley of the Varanasi side accused Shaher Shaheen of the Kashmir team of spitting …

How Tom Hartley studied Ravindra Jadeja on way to bowling England to Test victory over India | Cricket News

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From the time Lancashire spin bowling coach Carl Crowe met Tom Hartley, there has been one ritual that has been followed till date. After discussing everything under the sun, the conversation would gradually veer towards spin bowling. And it will ultimately end with Crowe and Hartley studying the footage of Ravindra Jadeja. At times, even Instagram reels of the all-rounder outfoxing batsmen are shared. Ahead of the ongoing tour to India, the two even watched a lot of videos of Axar Patel. When England picked three inexperienced spinners to partner Jack Leach, Hartley’s was mostly seen as a back-up to the frontline left-arm spinner. But during the two trips that Hartley made to the UAE in December and January – first with England Lions and then with the senior team for a pre-series camp – would turn into a game-changer. And in the first Test at Hyderabad, despite looking out of place in the first innings, Hartley would walk away with 7/62 in the second and bowl England to victory. Like most English spinners, Hartley …

India vs England: Brendon McCullum says punt on Tom Hartley paid off, reveals why they might play their spin quartet in Visakhapatnam | Cricket News

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England coach Brendon McCullum has admitted that they took a punt on Tom Hartley and it paid off and his team won’t be afraid to paly all their spin quartet in Visakhapatnam if the pitch will give more assists to the spinners. “Tom Hartley on debut, who has only played a handful of first-class games stepped up with the bowl. It was a punt selection,” McCullum said on SENZ Radio. “We saw something in him that we thought will work over here. He is a tough character and the way skipper handled him was quite remarkable as well. He obviously bowled us to the Test win. “There are so many different emotions. Guys have taken a lots of confidence with the Hyderabad win but we also know that it is a long series and we got some work to do. India will bounce back strong but we certainly celebrated last night,” he added. Tom Hartley didn’t had a great start after he was hit for two sixes on his first two balls on Test debut. …

India vs England: Day after win, Tom Hartley gets a Whitney Houston inspired Barmy Army chant | Cricket News

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Barmy Army’s lead trumpeter Simon Finch had a task on hand for the day after, what he and other travelling England fans are calling, “the best away win ever”. Having flown to India without a chant for Hyderabad’s unexpected hero, the left-arm debutant spinner Tom Hartley, he was busy composing the background score. With figures of 7/69 in the first game of the tour, there was an urgency in the Barmy Army rank and file to come up with a special song for Hartley. By evening it was ready. “The chant is ready, it is inspired by the Whitney Houston song ‘I wanna dance with somebody’,” he tells The Indian Express. Late into the night on Sunday, the 1,000-odd strong Army of England fans in Hyderabad didn’t the Houston-kind of complain. Gathered at the city’s ’10 Downing Street’ watering hole, they sang and danced through the night. Finch would come up with an apt song in the alien hand – “Everywhere we go, the people want to know who we are”. The in-house DJ would …