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Month: October 2019

October 30, 2019 Extras

Are you completely numb to the ridiculousness of cricket terminology?

3 minute readThis piece is not a flimsy excuse to publish footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game. It is a chin-stroking musing on the fundamental meaningless of sporting terminology. The fact that it happens to feature footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game is just a bonus.

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October 29, 2019 Associates

Papua New Guinea have qualified for the World T20. Without looking stuff up, let’s all share everything we know about Papua New Guinea

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October 26, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

The Cricket 19 videogame probably isn’t going to make David Willey feel any better

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October 24, 2019 India

India ‘move on’ from MS Dhoni and instead pick some random Dube

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October 22, 2019 County cricket

Don’t know what to think about The Hundred? Why not take your lead from Steve Smith’s awkward polite smile?

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October 22, 2019 India / South Africa

Why South Africa couldn’t possibly have come up with a more appropriate end to their tour of India than Lungi Ngidi’s bizarre golden duck

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October 19, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred draft: Which team pissed its money away on overpriced stars?

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October 18, 2019 Match report

A mouse in cricket whites at The Home of Corks – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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October 17, 2019 County cricket

Jesus Christ! Someone’s put some actual thought into an element of The Hundred

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October 10, 2019 England

Chris Silverwood’s first big England plan: time travel

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