I don’t often write on my site but I had some feelings to get off my chest about Cricket Ireland inviting the Afghanistan men’s team to tour. https://deeden.co.uk/articles/2026/04/24/cricket-ireland-a-criticism-of-the-afghanistan-mens-invitation/ #cricket #ireland #afghanistan
Hello, I'm Stephen Rushe and I drink tea, love cats, and provide sarcasm-as-a-service. I’m also responsible for Cricsheet, a project to provide ball-by-ball data for cricket, and the Cricket Scorecard Accuracy Project, a year-long experiment to check the accuracy of cricket scorecards.
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Cricket Ireland - A Criticism of the Afghanistan Men's invitation
Cricket Ireland announced the Irish international fixtures for 2026 on the 21st of March. The most interesting news, to me at least, was the inclusion of multiple series involving Afghanistan. I had questions, along with a feeling of disappointment, and for the last few days I’ve been anticipating reporting and opinion pieces on the issue. Sadly, I haven’t seen too much that hasn’t reported more than the basic facts along with the boards own comments, other than a good piece a few days before the announcement by Ger Siggins. Thus we end up with me trying to articulate my thoughts. I’m no writer and this won’t be well structured, despite my best attempts, but I’ll try to make it vaguely coherent. If you know of any proper writing on the subject do let me know.
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Testing posting to my website from Mastodon now that I've moved host. This will presumably fail, so be prepared for further tests.
I was wrong, it worked 🎉
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Testing posting to my website from Mastodon now that I've moved host. This will presumably fail, so be prepared for further tests.
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In a strange turn of events two accounts have appeared on mastodon.social impersonating me, and also sending direct messages. Why anyone thinks this is worth the time is beyond me.
I've reported both accounts to the server admins.
This is my only personal Mastodon account, and lives on my own instance (thanks to @mastohost). Accept no imitations.
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So I've only tried twice to purchase from #discogs and both times the seller cancelled the sale with no reason. Is this common? #vinyl
@kev I’ve never had a bother with buying on Discogs, so maybe it’s just you ;)
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Trying to register an OVH Cloud account and the “which type of account are you” page just loops no matter what I select 🤦🏻♂️
Looking for a non-US DNS host, y’see.
@nivrig I have exactly the same problem when I try. It’s like they don’t want my potential custom.
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I am apparently at the age where Willie Nelson is an excellent accompaniment to writing code. It makes a change from my usual choice of electronic. #Music #CountryMusic
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Every time Desmond Hart is mentioned in #DuneProphecy I can’t help but think of him as “Dessie Hart” and wonder how his county team is doing without him at corner forward.
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I finally did something with @cricsheet that I’ve been thinking about for a while. #cricket
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As a temporarily unattached Cleveland #Browns fan the only joy I get from their games is seeing DeShaun Watson get pummelled. He can’t leave soon enough.
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Sad to see Takakeisho retire today, but glad that he’s looking after his health. A wrestler I’ve really enjoyed for years. #sumo
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As I've moved to my own domain it seems like a good time to do an #introduction post.
Hello, I'm Stephen, and I'm a software developer in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I spend (what some may call) a disturbing amount of time writing software (mostly in #Ruby). I adore #cats. I'm often found drinking tea, and muttering about the #cricket statistical data. I am possibly powered by sarcasm.
To summarise: Sarcastic developer. Responsible for cricsheet.org. Drinker of tea. Worshipper of #cats. he/him
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I wonder how long it will take FastMail to get back to me about their apparent union busting. Granted, it’s unlikely they can say anything to stop me moving once I find a new host I like.
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It gives me great pleasure to discover that there is a cricket umpire in Cyprus called Windy Miller! #cricket
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Losing I can live with, but that was an embarrassingly awful batting display by Ireland. Canada deserved their win. #cricket #T20WorldCup
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Once more into the testing…
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I _think_ things are working. Let’s try another one.
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Please also ignore this further follow-up experiment.
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Pay no attention as I experiment with something.
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The honesty of “Blockchain Ireland” on their Use Cases page (https://www.blockchainireland.ie/blockchain-use-cases/) is something we could do with more of. 😇
It looks like that page is having “issues”. Good thing I took a screenshot for context.
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The honesty of “Blockchain Ireland” on their Use Cases page (https://www.blockchainireland.ie/blockchain-use-cases/) is something we could do with more of. 😇
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Vince Clarke – Songs of Silence https://www.discogs.com/release/28942369-Vince-Clarke-Songs-Of-Silence
By far my favourite listen of the year so far. I’m very jealous of you for having the vinyl.
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Ireland 17 for 3 chasing 111 to win a first Men’s Test match. I don’t need this level of stress from them, I already have Mayo football working full-time to raise and then dash my hopes.