Former England and Surrey cricketer. For coaching enquiries check out the website. Instagram martinbicknellcricketacademy
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15 Aug 2021
Academy bookings are now live on mbcricketacademy.co.uk book Sunday afternoons now. 7-9 9-11 11-14 sessions from 2pm
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So proud of the Surrey boys rejecting plans to dilute the Championship further. Players will generally take the easier option so no surprise they opted for less games. Very poor arguments too, it’s not about welfare at all 💶
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Martin Bicknell retweeted
30 Jul 2025
This is why the modern Test schedule is not fit for purpose. Sides should be fielding their strongest XIs, i.e Bumrah, Archer etc. The rest period between England 🏴 v India 🇮🇳 4th and 5th Tests totally inadequate. What are we doing to Test cricket? Utter folly
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25 Jun 2025
Test Cricket. The Rolls Royce of all our great game. Please stop serving me up the slop of the Mickey Mouse format
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29 May 2025
Martin Bicknell Cricket Academy Summer Camps now open for bookings at @ChurtCC @OdihamCricket @CamberleyCC @CharterhouseSch @chiddingfoldcc @grayshottcc @hartleywintneycc @HaslemereCC @FrenshamCC Book this week to get your free personalised shirt mbcricketacademy.co.uk/camps
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When does the money we are giving Ukraine actually run out? This war won’t end, who keeps paying for it?
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14 Feb 2025
You, my friend are a grade one fool
14 Feb 2025
This man will inherit £6m which he will have to pay just £0.6m Inheritance Tax on over 10 years.
He thinks he should inherit £6m for free, and so should all his children and so on forever.
Because he is special, he's a farmer.
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5 Feb 2025
Anyone taking 292 wickets at Test level is special, no debate
5 Feb 2025
It took Kallis 51 Tests to reach 3145 runs. Took Warne 145 Tests to get there - 2.8 times the number of Tests.
It took Warne 63 Tests to get 292 wkts. Took Kallis 166 Tests to there. - 2.6 times the number of Tests.
Yet, Kallis's 292 wkts makes him as good as as spec. bowler?
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4 Feb 2025
Having played against Kallis he was without doubt the best all rounder of the generation, bowled 90mph also so that would suggest his bowling was far superior than Warne’s batting. Warne was a generational player, but so was Kallis
4 Feb 2025
Nobody will ever say, "Shane Warne is the best cricket that's ever played. I don't care. 700 wickets, 37 fivefers, 3000 runs. Either one of those careers is outstanding"
Warne the batter was a useful as Kallis the bowler
Warne the bowler was vastly better than Kallis the bat
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4 Feb 2025
Don’t forget the penny off a pint in the budget also, good work 🙄
4 Feb 2025
This government is putting more money in your pocket with a pay rise from April for millions of working people.
That is our Plan for Change in action.
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31 Jan 2025
Michael, with all due respect this has nothing to do with The Hundred, it’s about a stake in the 20/20 world franchise which the Hundred will morph into. The Hundred is a dead duck
31 Jan 2025
So it’s looks like 145m will go to the ECB for a 49% stake in the London spirit … Still think the 100 is a failure !!!!! That’s now 245m to the game for just 3 franchises … !!!!
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4 Jan 2025
For anyone (Aussies) complaining India are over the top in their approach to Sam Konstas, didn’t play against Australia in the 80’s and 90’s. Off the chart intimidation.
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1 Jan 2025
Isn’t a purpose built theatre, a theatre?
1 Jan 2025
Extraordinary insight into the wealth of our private schools. Do pupils need Steinway pianos, purpose built theatres, groomed polo pitches? Paying VAT long overdue. It’s not just tax. Private school fees are rising in a facilities ‘arms race’ via @FT
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Martin Bicknell retweeted
11 Dec 2024
Money, money, money,
Always money,
Infantino’s world.
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22 Nov 2024
As I was a bowler, it’s impossible to be this far over the line without something odd going on. #💶💶
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11 Nov 2024
And who knew that playing lots and lots and lots of franchise 20/20 cricket around the world would make us good at 20/20 cricket! Anyone seeing a link here…
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Martin Bicknell retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Once you compress incentives from the top-down and say, "It doesn't matter how much you earn I'm going to take the lion's share away," they say, "Alright, I'm no longer going to do the lion's part." Then they stop creating the extra wealth which would benefit both themselves and society as a whole.
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