< 1 minute read We’re getting closer, but we’re still not quite there. Send pictures of bats (or whatever) in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Joe says: “Here’s a picture of my cricket bat. It isn’t really in an unusual place – my hallway. It is, however, in two places at once, which I think
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Richie Benaud to stop commentating
< 1 minute read Apart from a brief, meaningless stint at the BBC during the World Cup, we haven’t had Richie Benaud on TV in the UK for a good few years, but it was somehow reassuring to know that he was still leaving his trademark massive great pauses during every day of every
Continue readingGraeme Swann takes five Test wickets
< 1 minute read It’s a big deal. Andrew Flintoff pretty much never manages it and he’s supposed to be the best bowler since the Bowlinator 9000 perfected the 95mph googly. We don’t know for sure whether anyone ever followed our instructions as to how to help Graeme Swann into the England side from
Continue readingSir Allen Stanford charged with fraud
< 1 minute read It’s funny when billionaires get told off. It was good that Sir Allen Stanford inadvertently instilled a sense of responsibility into the West Indies team through encouraging them to prepare properly for the cashtastic Super Series, but it’s also good that he’s being charged with fraud, because he’s a billionaire
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< 1 minute read If you’re Paul Collingwood, you have to do a little bit more than other batsmen. He’s hit three hundreds in his last nine Test innings, each in a different country and each against a different attack. People will accept that he can stay in the side for another couple of
Continue readingCricket bats that seem like they’re in unusual places
< 1 minute read BUT THEY’RE NOT! We should really have clarified this at the outset. We’d like you to send us pictures of real, actual, tangible cricket bats (or other cricket items) that are genuinely in unusual places. Send your pictures to king@kingcricket.co.uk Kate and Tom sent us this: We have rather a
Continue readingEngland batsmen rack up team scores each
< 1 minute read Alastair Cook, 52. What a Herculean effort. Ordinarily, you’d need 11 men to get anywhere near a score like that. Owais Shah, 57. It’s a number beyond counting. We don’t know how many noughts 57 has, but it must be nearly a million. It’s the biggest number we’ve ever heard
Continue readingThe cost of an abandoned Test
< 1 minute read Real, world-class incompetence in the organisation of an international cricket match is pretty funny to a degree. It makes you feel better about those occasions when you can’t quite manage to write a list AND take it to the supermarket with you. However, it being a bit funny is a
Continue readingCricket bats in unusual places
< 1 minute read We’re starting a new feature. It’s called Cricket Bats In Unusual Places. We want you to send in pictures of cricket bats in unusual places. Send them to king@kingcricket.co.uk It doesn’t have to be cricket bats – that’s just the name of the feature. It can be anything cricket-related, but
Continue readingPeter Moores: Lancashire coach
< 1 minute read We support Lancashire. You might be wondering how we feel about this. If there’s such a thing as a positive ‘meh’ – then that. He did win the County Championship with Sussex after all. He does have a good track record. Peter Moores’ has Maxonian origins, so this is a
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