< 1 minute read In the second Champions League Twenty20 semi final, Trinidad and Tobago’s Dwayne Bravo took 0-46 off three well-spanked overs against Cape Cobras. No matter. He promptly hit 58 off 34 balls to help T&T waltz home. The Dwayne Bravo off-side thock made a couple of appearances. In many ways this
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It’s almost as if next season’s English domestic one-day tournament isn’t uppermost in your minds
< 1 minute read If we let every wall of indifference we came up against stop us, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Admittedly we’re nowhere today, but we’ve got over more than our fair share of walls of indifference to get here. We’re sensing a wall of indifference from King Cricket readers
Continue readingCounty cricket 40-over one-day tournament format
< 1 minute read The ECB Recreational XI are the 21st side involved in county cricket’s 40-over competition next year. They were needed because how else could you have three leagues of seven teams playing each other home and away with the winners of each league and the best second-placed side going through to
Continue readingAnother match report from Old Trafford Cricket Ground
2 minute read Bert writes: WARNING – This match report contains some mention of the actual cricket. Trust me, it’s relevant. Those who are easily upset should discard this report now. Bert Jr and I returned to Old Trafford on day four. This time, we sat in the pavilion. At lunch some rather
Continue readingName the ECB Recreational XI
< 1 minute read The ECB got all their figures wrong for next year’s 40-over tournament and found they were one team short. They’ve solved this by creating the ‘ECB Recreational XI’ – a provisional name for a side made up of cricketers without county contracts. Being as the ECB Recreational XI is a
Continue readingStephen Moore embiggens himself
< 1 minute read There’s a great interview with Lancashire’s new signing Stephen Moore on the ECB site. If you didn’t know anything about him, you’d come away thinking he was being unfairly kept out of the England side. It’s littered with comments about how he’s ‘ready’. One of our favourite bits is the
Continue readingThe DLF minimum number of IPL teams make it into the Champions League semi-finals
< 1 minute read Not one IPL team has made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20. Somewhere a marketing twat mournfully draws a descending line on a profit forecast. Clearly having only three out of the eight IPL teams qualify for the Champions League leaves the cricketainment outfits woefully underrepresented. Next
Continue readingRob Key Surrey rumour falsely monged
< 1 minute read That’s the last time we’re monging a rumour – even one about Rob Key. We apologise for our ill-advised mongery and promise it won’t happen again. You live the life of a rumour mongerer and you die like a rumour mongerererer: in the wrong. By the way, we’ve heard that
Continue readingCricket writing that doesn’t mention the actual cricket
< 1 minute read Actually, he touches on it a little bit, but Edward Craig’s blogs for The Wisden Cricketer are our kind of stuff. He’s in India for the cricket, but he’s mostly writing about mooching about and having a look at a place he’s never been to before. We’re jealous. It takes
Continue readingLancashire v Durham County Championship match report
2 minute read Bert writes: It’s the school holidays, so I decided to take my six-year-old son, Bert, to his first live cricket experience (I believe that is what they are called these days). It was day two of the County Championship match between Lancs and Durham, so that seemed ideal. Being the
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