3 minute readWe don’t often review cricket books these days because reading about cricket is not generally what we want to do once we’ve finished reading about cricket for the day. King Cricket reader Sam Blackledge has read one though and he sent us this review. Journalism has come a long way in recent
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< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. A P Webster writes… An Ashes series is often a time when those who have previously seemed indifferent to cricket, perhaps on multiple occasions – or maybe even exhibited active dislike for it
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2 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Please consider putting the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. We like those ones. Co-author, Dan Liebke, sent us a photo of our book The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments next to a statue of Steve
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4 minute readWe’ve been asked a lot of questions about our book The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments. We’ve also made up a few. If you’ve any further questions, ask away in the comments section and maybe we’ll tackle them in a follow-up. 1. What’s it about? Come on, that’s not a
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2 minute readAs the world’s foremost authority on ‘things with holes in which can carry multiple pints of beer at cricket matches’ we bring you news! And not just any class of news. We bring you the very finest form of news: third-hand news. Sam emailed to say: “Spotted at Taunton. Not
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< 1 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.) Chuck writes… Malahide, cricket and I can only mean two
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2 minute readNewer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer, Dan Liebke, because we haven’t actually produced any episodes in almost two years. The sizeable gap came about because we’ve been spending all of our podcasting time writing a book together instead – The 50
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2 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.) Ged Ladd writes… Out of the blue, Nigel Father-Barry invited
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2 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.) Sam writes… Stag parties are typically raucous, rowdy affairs featuring
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4 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.) A P Webster writes… Am I a Lancashire member? Well,
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