Historic Cricket Pictures ✓

@PictureSporting · Surrey · joined 08 Sep 2017

A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures and videos from cricket's earliest days to modern times. Nothing AI generated

61 048Followers

42Following

14 185Posts total

48.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 033this account3 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.69%this account10.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.60%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 033	3 259	0.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.69%	10.24%	0.17×
Engagement rate	1.60%	1.40%	1.15×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

4.3K2 Sep

32.1K

3823 Sep

272

3.2K

2.7K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.42%2 Sep

0.00%

5.41%

1.16%

1.26%

2.09%3 Sep

1.84%

3.82%

1.68%

1.61%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes85.6%624 in total

Reposts5.8%42 in total

Replies6.2%45 in total

Quotes0.3%2 in total

Bookmarks2.2%16 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Sid Barnes, known as a joker, tries to hand a stray dog to umpire Alex Skelding during the Australians match v Surrey at The Oval, May 10th 1948. Skelding was having none of it and was even less impressed at Barnes' suggestion that if he took it all he would need was a white htt 2.7K views · 40 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Pelham Warner was a decent batsman who failed to mark any real mark at Test level, either as captain or player. But he was as establishment as it was possible to be and as an administrator he exercised influence over the game, not always in a good way, for several decades https: 3.2K views · 38 likes · 3 reposts · 13 replies 03 Sep 2026 Geoff Arnold bowling for Surrey in 1973. One of my favourite players when I first fell in love with the game, in 34 Tests he took 115 wickets at 28.29 (Patrick Eagar) (C) https://t.co/8OcrZ9jJ07 4K views · 132 likes · 10 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting Did the club give Tony a car so he could pawk it in his grudge? 272 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting His brother, Ian Greig, coached at Waverley for years. He coached me in 1983. 382 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting The following season Geoff Boycott played for Waverley. Scored 1160 runs at an average of 165. Bill Athey played for Manly around the same time. 1K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Tony Greig playing for Waverley in January 1976. England had no tour so Greig, the England captain, was allowed to join the Sydney Club. It waw estimated he earned around Aus$90,000, about ten times the average national wage at the time. He was a great success on and off the htt 32.1K views · 337 likes · 19 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting In the opening match of the 1938 Tour at Worcester, he was no-balled nineteen times in his first three overs, and 35 times in the match. He told his team mates “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine after lunch. The umpire’s hoarse!”Very quick on his day but plagued by lumb 37 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting lp 42 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @PictureSporting yeah maybe, but I would not say it to his face 55 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Ernie McCormack was a genuinely fast Australian bowler who turned in a superb but brief spell in the 2nd Test at Lord's in 1938 but his tour was otherwise disappointing and by the end he was labelled "the most overrated bowler to visit England". He bowled more than 100 no balls h 4.3K views · 52 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026