We’re doing some writing on The Wisden Cricketer website as part of our Care in the Community rehabilitation scheme. It’s okay - we’re being supervised.

The Wisden Cricketer is a friend to cricket blogs, so we feel obliged to link to their home page as well as our first blog post there.

The other articles on The Wisden Cricketer website are proper get-a-cup-of-tea-and-set-a-few-minutes-aside articles. They’re actually written by grown-ups. Go and have a look.

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Just to let you all know, we’ve changed our email address to kingcricket@hotmail.co.uk.

Our old email provider, Bluebottle, said we had to start paying for their service. They gave us 72 hours notice.

Any of the following will be more than welcome at the new address:

(1) Match reports. Keep them brief and under no circumstances mention the actual cricket.
(2) Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket.
(3) Pictures of signs saying ‘moron centre’.

Basically, send any old crap. Our standards are nice and low.

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That’s us. Apart from the top ten, we’re first!

We were going to change the title of the site to ‘King Cricket - eleventh most influential sports blog in Britain’, but what if we go up a place or so? When do you cross the line from self-deprecating joke to feeble boast? Is it when you breach the top ten? Top three?

We heard about this from Patrick at Line and Length, who’s fourth. Apart from the top three, that’s first!

The rankings are from Wikio who make their calculations according to incoming links.

We’re going to stop drawing attention to recognition we’ve recently received now. Mainly because there isn’t any more.

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We’re blog of the month at Simply Cricket. This comes hot on the heels of being The Wisden Cricketer’s Best Of Blogs for April.

We haven’t had so much recognition since we were in India and everyone thought we were Nasser Hussain. This recent recognition is hopefully more justified, if only because we look nothing like Nasser Hussain.

TWC’s Best Of Blogs for May is Are You A Left-Arm Chinaman, a sound and long-serving online publication of admirably scattergun content. But you knew that already.

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The Wisden Cricketer’s a proper, grown-up publication.

Look, it’s actually tangible!

Here’s the bit where it says that it’s “the world’s no.1 cricket magazine”.

And here’s us!

No, really. Look!

And here’s Monty being conspicuously indifferent to it.

Turning away OR closing your eyes would have been sufficient, young man. There was no need to do both.

So there you go. Proof, if it were needed, that The Wisden Cricketer is the best thing made out of paper with writing on it. They’ve even got a piece about fat cricketers this month, which we’re pretty annoyed we didn’t write.

So go out and buy a copy. Don’t let the cat talk you out of it. He’s just bitter because he hasn’t got thumbs to turn the pages with.

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We never sing. We never dance.

What do you think then? You think that it’s ‘much the same’ don’t you? You’d be right.

Why not test out the comments though by offering a thought or two. Ideally not all of those thoughts would be negative, but we’re man enough to accept our punishment.

Also, don’t forget to subscribe again - or for the first time, if you’ve never made the plunge.

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This site

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Picture posts

Animals being conspicuously indifferent about cricket - the first few
Some more animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
Monty and Afridi’s Ashes prediction
First day of the cricket season: A photo journal
Cricket stock photography
Jaffa Cakes as sports snack - a shocking exposé
Lies about pictures
More lies about pictures

Looking forward

Ones To Watch 2008
Ones To Watch 2007
Ones To Watch 2006
King Cricket’s tips for the future

Appreciation

Rob Key
10 Great Innings
10 Great Bowling Performances
Batsmen and their signature shots
Brian Lara 501

Disapproval

Latest Matthew Hayden
Matthew Hayden
Matthew Hayden partially redeems himself
Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist are OLD

Categorise these for us

What is cricket - Definitions of cricket terms
Match reports
More match reports
King Cricket’s complex rating system explained
Great cricketers we have known
Lasith Malinga’s bowling action
Cricket Video Games
We still don’t play for England
Holy Crap
Twenty20

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