You’d imagine the person behind cricket’s funniest account would be a professional comedian. Instead, it’s a bespectacled environmental economics professor in Iceland who fires off six posts a day between lectures. David Cook, secretary of the Icelandic Cricket Association, runs an X account with more than 175,000 followers — nearly half the country’s population — even though Iceland has only around 150 active cricketers.
Sample this recent barb after India’s second T20 defeat to Ireland. “We can confirm that we don’t wish to add Gautam Gambhir to our coaching staff. He clearly has talent, though. To take those Indian players and deliver those results in Ireland takes truly remarkable gifts.”