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Cricket has made just one appearance in Olympic competition, in the second games of the modern olympiad, held in Paris in 1900.

When Chris Rogers was dismissed for 95 on Day Two of the Cardiff Test he achieved a new world record... the first player in the history of Test cricket for pass 50 in seven consecutive innings without converting for a 100.

The 7 June 2015 edition of Dilbert says quite a lot about behaviour on social media:

The daily Dilbert: Comic for June 07, 2015 http://t.co/oZLd2zUX6J #comic

— Dilbert (@DailyDilbert) June 7, 2015

Trevor Bayliss is one of those rare breed of New South Wales cricketers - one who never seriously threatened for Australian selection! A consistent batsman in Sheffield Shield cricket over a number of years while the Waughs, Taylors and Bevans were spending much of their time away on Test or one-day duty.

What goes around comes around, sort of. After nine years of running a centralised blog for everything, I have returned to a separate blog on cricket running under Wordpress.

Special award you say...

WICB President Dave Cameron @davec51 receives special award from @ICC Chairman N.Srinivasan at the annual conference pic.twitter.com/LSEkB6aaPo

— westindies (@westindies) June 25, 2015

Richie Benaud meant so much to so many people, and despite his extreme modesty you know he accepted the good humour of it all. And unlike many of his contemporary ex-player-turned-commentators, you could never accuse him of being a curmudgeon.

Here below is a spreadsheet summary of the overseas signings for IPL8 at today's auction, with their sale prices in rupees converted into Bitcoins, Dogecoins, Aussie dollars and other novelty currencies:

In the US they have March Madness. The 64 team knockout contest in men's basketball where fans fill out their bracket and attempt to pick, before the tournament commences, all 63 winners right down to the Championship game. In that futile tradition I give you my February Foolishness, as I attempt to pick the winners of the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

Whycliffe "Dave" Cameron has not exactly had a stellar two years in the hot seat as President of the West Indies Cricket Board. But you'd never know it from his Twitter feed.