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Month: October 2019

October 9, 2019 Match report

“I had an idea how the day would pan out but I went anyway” – a match report

2 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 8, 2019 England

England have hired a Yorkshireman as coach and no-one’s really noticed

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October 5, 2019 India

R Ashwin’s idea of getting away from cricket isn’t the same as other people’s idea of getting away from cricket

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October 3, 2019 County cricket

Crisps, slogans, gibberish: get to know all the new teams for The Hundred

2 minute readThey’ve told us some things about The Hundred teams! Specifically, they’ve told us which crisps are sponsoring each team and then they’ve also made up a bunch of stuff about each team’s ‘identity’ which we’ll all have to work very hard to commit to memory because it is not based

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October 3, 2019 India / South Africa

Sorry, but the ‘lost ball’ was a bigger highlight than Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma and all the other stuff

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October 2, 2019 County cricket

Please will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred

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October 1, 2019 County cricket / Pakistan

Shahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time

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