Skip to content
King Cricket

King Cricket

Independent and irreverent cricket writing

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Extras
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Buy our book!

Month: January 2019

January 31, 2019 England / West Indies

Did Joe Root get the definitive ‘lifter’ off Alzarri Joseph?

< 1 minute read

Continue reading
January 30, 2019 England / West Indies

Joe Denly has fingers that bend

2 minute read

Continue reading
January 29, 2019 England / West Indies

Let’s take a quick look at the opening innings of some recent England Test tours and also the warm-up matches that preceded them

3 minute read

Continue reading
January 25, 2019 England / Extras / West Indies

Which Sky Sports commentator delivered the most appropriate ‘England were all out for 77’ face?

2 minute read

Continue reading
January 22, 2019 England / West Indies

Exactly how many Tests will Jonny Bairstow survive as England’s number three?

4 minute read

Continue reading
January 17, 2019 England

Does Alastair Cook still say ‘ahm’ every other word now that he’s a professional broadcaster?

2 minute read

Continue reading
January 16, 2019 Australia

Justin Langer really doesn’t give a toss if everyone in the entire world is making fun of him for using the word ‘elite’ all the time

< 1 minute read

Continue reading
January 15, 2019 India

Is MS Dhoni still a great finisher or merely a very enthusiastic witness of finishes?

2 minute read

Continue reading
January 12, 2019 England

Monty Panesar was on Celebrity Mastermind and it did not go well

< 1 minute read

Continue reading
January 9, 2019 Australia

It’s not Shaun Marsh’s fault that he’s good enough to play Test cricket for Australia

2 minute read

Continue reading

Posts pagination

1 2 Next Posts»

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Buy our book

Search King Cricket

Latest features

  • The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 10, 2025
  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
  • 14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
  • Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?August 27, 2025

Read one of these next…

  • Life at Yorkshire and what we should be saying about it

    Life at Yorkshire and what we should be saying about it

  • When Shane Watson was run out in Perth – the Ashes dismissal that no-one involved enjoyed

    When Shane Watson was run out in Perth – the Ashes dismissal that no-one involved enjoyed

  • Let’s revisit the Netherlands’ win over England at the 2009 T20 World Cup and in particular the insanely chaotic final over from Stuart Broad

    Let’s revisit the Netherlands’ win over England at the 2009 T20 World Cup and in particular the insanely chaotic final over from Stuart Broad

  • 13 proper highlights from the 2019 Cricket World Cup (and none are from the final because the final was a whole thing all of its own)

    13 proper highlights from the 2019 Cricket World Cup (and none are from the final because the final was a whole thing all of its own)

  • Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?

    Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?

Archives

Cricket history

  • Ancient history

King Cricket T-shirts

t_shirt_ad.jpg

What we mostly seem to write about

  • England
  • Australia
  • India
  • Other nations
  • County cricket
  • IPL

Latest comments

  1. King Cricket on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 13, 2025

    The psychological side is always the hardest bit. It's understandable they'd still lean on that element though when it was…

  2. Fred Grace on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 13, 2025

    The sad part is that these players are actually good enough to compete if they prepared properly (playing red ball…

  3. Ged Ladd on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 12, 2025

    Yup. Oh dear.

  4. King Cricket on The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 12, 2025

    Yes, just spotted that. It's so hard to keep up. Suppose it's good that it's selling really.

  5. Tim on The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 12, 2025

    Yesterday bookshop.org claimed that they had the book in stock and that orders would be dispatched "immediately". You picture a…

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat finally being won over to cricket by the sheer ridiculousness of the Ashes
  • A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket
  • Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being

RSS Match reports

  • Match Report: Ireland vs England, 2nd T20, Malahide
  • Keep your enemies closer | a 2019 Edgbaston Ashes Test match report
  • Match report: Sixes, Fulham

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

  • A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)
  • DEVICE NEWS! (A match report being conspicuously indifferent to cricket in an unusual place)
  • A cricket bat in a Pigbag video

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Recent Posts

  • Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test preview
  • The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)
  • Five ways England’s Gabba defeat to Mitchell Starc and Australia’s medium-pacers was even worse than the first Test
  • Someone tell Brydon Carse he’s getting tonked –  we’re not sure he’s noticed
  • How Joe Root failed at the Gabba in two key respects

Tags

Adil Rashid Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Andrew Strauss Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket Ashes Ben Stokes Brendon McCullum Chris Gayle Chris Woakes Cricket bats in unusual places Cricket media David Warner Did you see Eoin Morgan Ian Bell IPL James Anderson Joe Root Jonathan Trott Jonny Bairstow Jos Buttler Kevin Pietersen King Cricket Laurence Elderbrook Lies about pictures Matthew Hayden Michael Clarke Mitchell Johnson Moeen Ali Monty Panesar Mop-up of the day MS Dhoni Ones to watch Paul Collingwood Photos Retirement Ricky Ponting Rob Key Sachin Tendulkar Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sim Series Steve Smith Stuart Broad Virat Kohli
WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Cookies may be used for personalisation of ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}