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Month: May 2023

May 5, 2023 Australia / England / Features / India

What ‘looking ahead to the Ashes’ tells us about Test cricket’s future (and T20 and the IPL)

4 minute readRajasthan Royals owner Manoj Badale has told the BBC that, “We are going to have to think creatively about Test cricket if we want it to work.” This was shortly after he’d said the quiet bit out loud. It’s easy to characterise IPL franchise owners as ravenous financial speculators with

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May 3, 2023 Match report

Potential converts and marshmallows – a Middlesex v Kent match report

3 minute readSend 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.) Balladeer writes… I haven’t actually been to the cricket that

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May 2, 2023 County cricket

Surrey’s sly tricks take them top of the table

2 minute readSurrey have learned from Hampshire. If you want to advance your cause in the County Championship, play a match. It seems so simple, but you’d be surprised how many teams fail to take this obvious first step. Surrey and Warwickshire were early front-runners in the Championship, but got complacent, kicked

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