Skip to content
King Cricket

King Cricket

Independent and irreverent cricket writing

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Extras
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • The 2025 King Cricket Essentials Calendar

Month: March 2024

March 6, 2024 England

Remember Jos Buttler? He’s almost certainly played his last Test… hasn’t he?

3 minute readAs Jonny Bairstow prepares to play his 100th Test and Ben Foakes closes in on a nice fresh cap for his 25th, we can’t help but think of the third prong of England’s red ball wicketkeeping trident – the missing prong, the ghost of a prong – Jos Buttler. In

Continue reading
March 5, 2024 England / India

Dharamsala Test pitch preview with Fiona Bruce

3 minute readAnother Test series, another touring team dashed on the Indian rocks. Even a lighthouse won’t save you, because merely seeing the danger is not enough. The currents in this part of the world are simply too strong. Have you seen The Lighthouse, by the way? We recommend it if you’re

Continue reading
March 1, 2024 Regulars

Cricket stumps at Chelsea Flower Show (+ more)

2 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. It is more than okay to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself if you want. In fact we urge you to do precisely that. Matthew writes… I spotted John Emburey at Chelsea

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Search King Cricket

Latest features

  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 20, 2025
  • In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis HeadJanuary 30, 2025
  • Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowlerJanuary 16, 2025
  • 23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024January 10, 2025
  • Lord Megachief of Gold 2024January 8, 2025

Read one of these next…

  • Six things older than Rehan Ahmed

    Six things older than Rehan Ahmed

  • The greatest bits and pieces and cricketers of all time

    The greatest bits and pieces and cricketers of all time

  • The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes

    The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes

  • Rating and reviewing the wrong-handed bowling of three Sky Sports commentators

    Rating and reviewing the wrong-handed bowling of three Sky Sports commentators

  • When and where is AB de Villiers at his best?

    When and where is AB de Villiers at his best?

Archives

Cricket history

  • Ancient history

King Cricket T-shirts

t_shirt_ad.jpg

What we mostly seem to write about

  • England
  • Australia
  • India
  • Other nations
  • County cricket
  • IPL

Latest comments

  1. JW on A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mileMay 30, 2025

    What about Kemar Roach…..??

  2. Balladeer on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 29, 2025

    Leicestershire!!!!! That's my informed comment on the matter.

  3. daneel on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 28, 2025

    Seems as good a time as ever to talk about Division 2 stuff, if you ask me. I don't understand…

  4. Ged Ladd on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 28, 2025

    I owe you a debt of gratitude, KC. I really didn’t have the faintest idea that England are playing an…

  5. King Cricket on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 28, 2025

    That last point hadn't occurred to us, but you're right. Maybe the bad juju's spilled over and crossed the A56.

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

RSS Match reports

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Recent Posts

  • A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mile
  • What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplan
  • See, told you Zak Crawley was the very best batter in the whole wide world
  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing
  • Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?

Tags

Adil Rashid Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Andrew Strauss Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket Ashes Ben Stokes Brendon McCullum Chris Gayle Cricket bats in unusual places Cricket media David Warner Did you see Eoin Morgan Ian Bell IPL James Anderson Joe Root Jonathan Trott Jonny Bairstow Jos Buttler Kevin Pietersen King Cricket Laurence Elderbrook Lies about pictures Matthew Hayden Michael Clarke Mitchell Johnson Moeen Ali Monty Panesar Mop-up of the day MS Dhoni Ones to watch Paul Collingwood Photos Retirement Ricky Ponting Rob Key Sachin Tendulkar Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sim Series Steve Smith Stuart Broad Tim Bresnan Virat Kohli
WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Cookies may be used for personalisation of ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}