< 1 minute read Welcome to our new, three-part series, Cricket’s Greatest Dot Balls. We hope you like it. The backdrop It was the fourth Test of the 1999 Test series between England and New Zealand. Ed Giddins was making his Test debut and no-one knew quite how significant that was going to prove.
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Next week on King Cricket
< 1 minute read On the radio, they call this ‘throwing forward’. That’s a good thing on the radio, but it’s a crime in rugby. You can decide for yourselves what it is on a cricket blog. Monday to Wednesday will see something we’re really excited about. It is a short, three-part feature looking
Continue readingOn this site five years ago
< 1 minute read The great thing about making no discernible progress in life is that when there isn’t anything you want to write about, you know where to look to find what you wrote five years ago. On the 16th January, 2008, this website was updated not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES.
Continue readingODI fielding restrictions – four men outside the circle
< 1 minute read A one-day international (ODI) rule change is nothing new. They fiddle with the regulations more often than Sir Jimmy fiddled with… no, that’s not an acceptable analogy. While rule changes are rarely in themselves interesting, they do just about become worthy of discussion when you think about the impact on
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< 1 minute read The cricket news is still boring us, so here’s another way to improve a vastly inferior sport by making it slightly cricket-related. To play Cricket Snooker, you will need: A snooker table and balls A snooker bat/stick The kind of haircut seen on footballers about six years ago One of
Continue readingTwenty20 cricket darts
< 1 minute read England lost again. According to Cricinfo, the weather was ‘smoke’ and then ‘fog’. Now, onto the important stuff: encouraging cricket to invade other sports. We’ve just learnt about Twenty20 cricket darts and we heartily approve of it. If we had any kind of memory for this sort of stuff, we’d
Continue readingCricket management games – a must for administrators
2 minute read It’s December the 24th and we’re feeling festive, so we’re going to write about everyone’s favourite pastime – administration. In short, we have a demand: all potential cricket administrators should be forced to play four seasons on a cricket management game before they can be considered for any job. We
Continue readingWho’s your favourite cricketer?
< 1 minute read And why? We think we might be interested, but we reserve the right to change our opinion should you write 3,000 words without any line breaks. Our favourite cricketer was Waqar Younis, as you’ll know if you used to read what was then The Wisden Cricketer. We don’t think the
Continue readingThe site is back and hopefully faster
< 1 minute read The site has been offline for a day. We were moving it to new hosting. Thank you to Prince Stickball for his assistance in this. Hopefully the site will run a bit more quickly and reliably now. Apologies to those of you who’ve been repeatedly checking the site for updates
Continue readingIf you buy one cricket magazine this month…
< 1 minute read Buy The Cricketer. We’ve a thing in it. “Was Don Bradman really the greatest batsman? Is Test cricket the pinnacle? Was it definitely better in your day? It’s time to bust some myths, says Alex Bowden.” Only we didn’t say that. That’s not the kind of thing we say. We
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