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Month: April 2022

April 4, 2022 Australia / England

Lesson from the World Cup final: the team that wins absolutely every single game is a good team

2 minute readWell that wasn’t precisely how we expected England to lose the World Cup final to Australia. Nat Sciver played one of the finest World Cup final innings you’re ever likely to see in England’s forlorn chase of 357, making 148 not out off 121 balls. The only issue was that

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April 1, 2022 Extras

The Hundred v Test cricket reading experiment

2 minute readHere at King Cricket, we have a strong history of EXPERIMENTS. Here, a mere 15 years after the last one, is another EXPERIMENT. Regular King Cricket correspondent Ged writes… Abstract The null hypothesis was that reading at the Hundred would be hampered by distractions whereas reading at the Test Match

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