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July 18, 2025 Match report

Burgers, noise and handshakes | another World Test Championship final match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Who says you can’t report on the same day’s play

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June 18, 2025 Match report

Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Inveterate King Cricket match reporter, Ged Ladd, writes… I spent

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June 9, 2025 Match report

Blue for Bob Day 2024, England v West Indies at Edgbaston – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Daisy writes… An honorary Heavy Roller, I sometimes join the

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March 12, 2025 Match report

Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Daisy writes… I suggested in spring that we might get

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February 18, 2025 Match report

England v New Zealand at the Oval in 1999 – a match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Daisy writes… I had never been to a professional cricket

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November 20, 2024 Match report

Some bloke catching another bloke in a 2001 charity match (a match report)

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Ged Ladd’s official cricket biographer, Herbert Ackgrass, writes… The match

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November 8, 2024 Match report

Sunrise without enlightenment – a Sunrisers v South East Stars match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Ged Ladd writes… DAISY: So who are the Sunrisers? GED:

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September 16, 2024 Match report

Edgbaston Cricket Ground’s spectator code of conduct (a match report)

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Sam Blackledge attended day two of this year’s England v

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July 24, 2024 Match report

James Anderson’s final Test warm-up and the all-important sourcing of provisions for that game (a match report)

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Ged Ladd writes… I was at Lord’s when Jimmy Anderson

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April 23, 2024 Match report

The night before the 2005 Edgbaston Test (a match report)

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Ged Ladd writes… Since the end of the last century,

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  1. Ged Ladd on Burgers, noise and handshakes | another World Test Championship final match reportJuly 18, 2025

    Nanny Bill's certainly has an apostrophe. Bill Edrich, on the other hand, might turn in his grave at the double-misspelling…

  2. Scott on Burgers, noise and handshakes | another World Test Championship final match reportJuly 18, 2025

    Iä! Iä! Cummins fhtagn!

  3. Scott on Burgers, noise and handshakes | another World Test Championship final match reportJuly 18, 2025

    Is the Eldritch Lower a fielding position whose location is steeped in dread horror or a ritual performed by bowlers…

  4. Dan on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 86.4 oversJuly 18, 2025

    Yeah, sorry I took that the wrong way Ritesh and KC. I’ll go do some penance. Watch a T20 match…

  5. King Cricket on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 86.4 oversJuly 18, 2025

    Think Ritesh was expressing his opinion there. Captains are liable to treat themselves extra badly so they can't be seen…

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