How do you pick a Test team?

2 minute read Here’s a question: if all records and memory of Test history were erased, how would you select your playing XI for the next match? Would the side differ from the one that would take the field normally? There’s always context. There are always past Test achievements to go off. Many

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Ed Giddins to Matt Horne – dot ball

< 1 minute read Welcome to our new, three-part series, Cricket’s Greatest Dot Balls. We hope you like it. The backdrop It was the fourth Test of the 1999 Test series between England and New Zealand. Ed Giddins was making his Test debut and no-one knew quite how significant that was going to prove.

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Next week on King Cricket

< 1 minute read On the radio, they call this ‘throwing forward’. That’s a good thing on the radio, but it’s a crime in rugby. You can decide for yourselves what it is on a cricket blog. Monday to Wednesday will see something we’re really excited about. It is a short, three-part feature looking

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The next Chanderpaul

< 1 minute read Normally, when someone talks about ‘the next so-and-so’ it’s a load of old cobblers, but there really is another Chanderpaul – it’s Shiv’s son. Even better, he’s almost, but not quite, named after a fruit. Tagenarine Chanderpaul is set to make his first-class debut in February, even though he’s only

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Sri Lanka’s new ball attack

< 1 minute read Australians aren’t always particularly polite about the standard of the opposition. In a way, this is okay, because they’re equally happy to wheel out brutal opinions about their own team when they don’t do well. On the other hand, it does mean that the rest of us can portray dismissive

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