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Month: September 2023

September 6, 2023 County cricket

Surrey’s Dan Worrall maybe should have become “English” before he was in his 30s

2 minute read“I’ve always had the ambition to play in England as an Englishman,” said Dan Worrall last year, shortly before becoming a ‘local player’ for Surrey thanks to the British passport he was entitled to through his father. It’s gone okay. He may wish he’d done it sooner. County cricket has

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September 5, 2023 Ireland / Match report

A Malahide beer tent report (Ireland v India, 2023)

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.) Thanks to Chuck for this match report and apologies for

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