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September 24, 2020 County cricket

You can watch (and rewatch) the whole of the Bob Willis Trophy final for free – including rain delays

The Bob Willis Trophy final between Somerset and Essex is taking place this week. There were only 44 overs yesterday, but that’s okay because it’s a five-day game. The big news is that you can watch it. Sky Sports, the England and Wales Cricket Board and the BBC are all

September 22, 2020 Extras

What can other sports teach us about doping in cricket?

We’ll try and keep this fairly short because now that we’ve written the headline, we’ve realised we don’t actually want to write a whole big thing because it’s not really a very fun subject. Jarrod Kimber yesterday posted a sort of mea-culpa-cum-podcast-advert on his substack. It’s about drugs in sport

September 17, 2020 Features / India

Let’s use Ken Nordine’s word jazz album ‘Colors’ to work out who’s going to win the 2020 IPL

If there’s a simple and obvious way of predicting the 2020 IPL that for some reason hasn’t yet been done, it’s this… We’re going to look at all of the team kits; we’re going to establish the main colour of each one; and then we’re going to listen to what

September 15, 2020 England

Adil Rashid and the art of lofting the ball over backward point

When we wrote about how Adil Rashid is almost as good a batsman as Stuart Broad the other day, a number of people saw this as some kind of slur. Maybe they misinterpreted our words because they for some inexplicable reason do not believe that Stuart Broad is a quite

September 12, 2020 England

Adil Rashid is almost as good a batsman as Stuart Broad

Stuart Broad is the greatest batsman in the history of cricket. Everybody knows that. What people don’t know is that Adil Rashid is almost as good. One of the great tragedies of England having loads of bowlers who can bat is that fans very rarely get to catch a glimpse

September 10, 2020 Regulars

A cricket pad in an unusual place/a baby in an unusual cricket place

Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Miriam writes: Here is a photo of my new baby daughter Clementine in a cricket pad. She is being conspicuously indifferent to cricket,

September 8, 2020 England

The weight of being Ian Bell finally takes its toll

As Ian Bell retires from first-class cricket, let’s talk about a player whose Test record was plenty good enough but whose technique honestly left us kind of cold. Ian Bell was player of the series in a 3-0 Ashes win. Can we just state that first before we get into

September 5, 2020 Australia / England / Uncategorized

If a cricket match is played and no-one is there to boo David Warner then how can we be sure that Australia truly lost?

The First Crowd-Free T20 International between England and Australia saw the home team engineer a position where they would have to play very well and Australia very badly to secure their desired result. England did their bit and so too did Australia, in large part thanks to David Warner’s nondescript

September 2, 2020 Match report

Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report

We always enjoy a tale of trying to follow the cricket without actually watching the cricket. Today, day four of the 2019 Headingley Ashes Test… Sam writes: The following is a true story. I removed my headphones, dusted down my grass-stained trousers and skipped giddily back to the car, children

August 30, 2020 England / Features

When Mike Atherton was run-out for 99 – was this the worst ‘no’ in the history of cricket?

The most powerful ‘no’ in film is the one in Rise of the Planet of the Apes when Caesar reveals that he is far more than a “damn dirty ape”. It happens a surprisingly long way into the film, which allows for quite a lot of emotional build-up. It’s well-timed

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Let’s use Ken Nordine’s word jazz album ‘Colors’ to work out who’s going to win the 2020 IPL

When Mike Atherton was run-out for 99 – was this the worst ‘no’ in the history of cricket?

Behold the rich tapestry of emotions when Stuart Broad dropped yet another catch off Jimmy Anderson but then ran the batsman out

Let’s rate the ‘serious face’ of every England player in the trailer for The Edge

Which Test nation’s top five wicket takers would form the most balanced attack?

You can watch (and rewatch) the whole of the Bob Willis Trophy final for free – including rain delays

What can other sports teach us about doping in cricket?

Let’s use Ken Nordine’s word jazz album ‘Colors’ to work out who’s going to win the 2020 IPL

Adil Rashid and the art of lofting the ball over backward point

Adil Rashid is almost as good a batsman as Stuart Broad

A cricket pad in an unusual place/a baby in an unusual cricket place

The weight of being Ian Bell finally takes its toll

If a cricket match is played and no-one is there to boo David Warner then how can we be sure that Australia truly lost?

Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report

When Mike Atherton was run-out for 99 – was this the worst ‘no’ in the history of cricket?