In response to the latest part of our France Cricket investigation, the board in a statement has said they're continuing to operate as normal, saying "no authority, national or international, has published any decision withdrawing or modifying" their official status.
The context 👇
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Pleasure having @davekeating.substack.com swing by the studio during his Paris weekend break to talk about the uproar around the EU's planned tweaks to GDPR and the AI Act. Thanks Dave!
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Order a copy of this year’s Wisden Almanack for more on the fate of women’s cricket in France: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wisden-cr... 7/7
Watch the remarkable match back here, the first time I’ve seen full French TV coverage of a game of cricket: www.youtube.com/live/0YN8_6-... 6/7
France Cricket has swept into the territory with their own mission, read the latest on @en.france24.com: f24.my/B15p 5/7
The women in the new squad were converted from a traditional form of the game, widely played by Kanak women in New Caledonia since cricket was supposedly introduced by English missionaries in the 19th century. 4/7
France came last, losing all its matches, but only after an admittedly thrilling double Super Over. Perhaps the second in history, from my limited cricket knowledge?
📸 France Télévisions Nouvelle-Calédonie 3/7
The former squad? Nowhere to be seen, after they called for an investigation into France Cricket over alleged fraud in the domestic women’s game. 2/7
🥖 🏏 France Cricket update
Here are the results of the inaugural ICC-recognised Pacific-France Women’s T20I Championship between Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, and a brand-new French national team made up entirely of players from the overseas territory of New Caledonia cricheroes.com/tournament/1... 1/7
📍 #AIActionSummit too much about #France ?
@pobjourno.bsky.social put the question to @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social
➡️Your reactions on #france24
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@mariaressa.bsky.social on falsehoods spread by AI: "AI is a way to evade responsibility, to evade accountability ... all this must stop." @france24.com
Spoke to Peter O'Brien @france24.com a bit this week about #CharmingCypress impersonating Peter in order to eventually phish users, there's a great summary by Peter on France24 (English) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6sG...
the French cricket authorities have been boasting about the rise of women's cricket in France.
one problem - some of the matches seem to have been invented to make the sport seem popular. great story. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
