< 1 minute read If anyone is staying up for day one of the Ashes tonight, we’ll be covering all the important stuff via Twitter. Here is a list of our intended topics: What we’re eating What we’re drinking Why the world’s sudden, wrong-headed obsession with naps is sickening If there is anything else
Continue readingMonth: November 2010
Checking the scorecard in the morning
< 1 minute read The Ashes starts at midnight and Bert has a problem. He’s got work, so can’t stay up and he dreads being confronted with an end of play scorecard in the morning. He describes how you are introduced to disaster gradually while watching live. “By the time 113 arrives, eight down,
Continue readingListen to the tin!
< 1 minute read Unsure how to approach opening the bowling in the Ashes? Simply consult ‘the tin’. “Jimmy does what it says on the tin – he swings it both ways at pace with the new ball.” – Peter Moores The tin is clearly very wise.
Continue readingCameras in the Australia dressing room?
< 1 minute read That is what’s being suggested by Australia’s Channel Nine, who clearly have no regard for people’s desire to keep their dinner down. Even Peter Siddle doesn’t want to see Peter Siddle in his undercrackers. The thought of Simon Katich visibly confirming all jockstrap contents are fully contained sends a shiver
Continue readingAshes contradictions and how we think the series might pan out
< 1 minute read We have written a piece for Cricinfo about how we are massively pessimistic about England’s chances no matter what the evidence in front of us. We have also said that England will win 3-2 over at World Cricket Watch. The truth is that we are pessimistic by default, but hate
Continue readingNathan Hauritz gets the boot | Australian selectors and spinners
2 minute read We wrote about how Australia’s selectors don’t know what they’re doing last week. Nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to spin bowlers. Spoilt by Warne and MacGill for so long, there seems to be a ‘grass is greener’ philosophy, even when the grass in manifestly not greener,
Continue readingKing Cricket T-shirts and other stuff
2 minute read Cricket T-shirts on Amazon We’ve made some T-shirts. Maybe you could buy some out of pity. Here is a yellow one. Coloured T-shirts are £17.95. Here is a ‘ringer’ T-shirt. Ringer T-shirts are £18.50. The grey and black ringer T-shirt is the one we bought to test the quality. We
Continue readingIs the lead-up to the Ashes the best bit?
< 1 minute read We sometimes wonder, because in a way, it’s when Test cricket’s shown at its best. No-one’s actually playing, but the fact that we still have so much to talk about despite that highlights what makes Test cricket better than every other sport. Even luge. Will the humidity in Brisbane aid
Continue readingSomeone somewhere is under our influence
< 1 minute read We don’t know who it is, but we’d quite like to hear from them. AskMen has named King Cricket one of the 10 most influential cricket blogs. Make of that what you will. We don’t know how we’re influencing people. Maybe we’re responsible for the age of apathy.
Continue readingThe Wisden Cricketer newsletter
< 1 minute read As none of you know, we write The Wisden Cricketer’s weekly email, which we believe we’re obliged to describe as ‘irreverent’. We have done over a hundred instalments now, so we’re a bit late telling you about this. If you’ve ever thought to yourself: “I like the King Cricket website,
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