2 minute read If those who run cricket can’t make the cricket calendar comprehensible, we’ll just have to do it ourself. Below you’ll find a month-by-month guide to the series and tournaments we’ll most likely be focusing on throughout this year. Setting it out in writing is as much for us as it
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The definition of “Bazball” is following a very familiar path
2 minute read “Bazball” is an ill-defined woolly-yet-squidgy concept that you can smush around to mean pretty much anything you want. We’ve been here before. Speaking ahead of South Africa’s home one-day series against England, captain Temba Bavuma spoke about his team’s way of going about things and how they might look to
Continue readingBut what has the Patreon crowdfunding campaign ever done for King Cricket?
6 minute read We’re pretty happy with the last year’s Patreon-funded output. Hopefully our crowdfunding campaign doesn’t completely implode in 2023. A very quick recap. We run a Patreon campaign where readers can, if they want, pledge a monthly sum to help support the site. You can pretty much pledge whatever you want
Continue readingSteve Smith’s number one priority on a Test tour
2 minute read “Cricket Australia basically said to us, ‘Okay, what can we kinda do to make your time in hotels for the next month better? So the boys just took it to the next level” – Pat Cummins The latest series of The Test outlines all the various toys and gizmos the
Continue readingSteve Smith’s Sussex stint and podcast proxies – mop-up of the day
2 minute read Mop-up of the day is a thing we do when we can’t really be bothered writing more than a sentence or two about a bunch of different things. Sometimes we end up writing extra sentences though because it looks weird if the opening sentence, in bold, is immediately followed by
Continue readingBest of the blobs: Eight of Test cricket’s finest duck-makers
6 minute read There aren’t many things in cricket more entertaining than a duck. A batter slowly walks out to try and make some runs and then slowly walks back again having failed to do so. It’s a miniature tragedy. Great ducks come in many different flavours. There’s the duck you were expecting
Continue readingIn search of a T20 shallowness metric: Is there a quick and easy way to judge the quality of a franchise match?
5 minute read There are an awful lot of T20 franchise leagues these days. It’s hard to keep up. If you want to work out whether a new one is worth following, the absolute last thing you’d want to do is actually watch a match. So is there a quicker and easier way
Continue readingThe government pilot post-social-distancing 2021 Edgbaston Test – a match report
3 minute read Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Ged Ladd submitted this match report what might be termed
Continue readingJofra Archer’s back
2 minute read As in ‘returned’. He hasn’t got ankylosing spondylitis or anything. So what does this mean? It’s almost two years since he last played for England. Where does he fit in these days? Yesterday, Jofra Archer made his return for Mumbai Indians Cape Town – almost literally a franchise within a
Continue readingHaving David Warner play Nathan Lyon at the Test Match board game seems a perfectly reasonable way to promote series two of The Test on Amazon Prime
3 minute read Say what you like about tax-dodging symbol of the horrors of modern global commerce, Amazon, it knows how to promote a documentary series about the Australia Test cricket team. Series one of Amazon Prime’s The Test was notable for footage of Justin Langer kicking a bin over, among other things.
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