2 minute readWill writes: Despite being a Thursday, it was actually the fourth day of what is now, with hindsight, the totally ironically named MCC Spirit of Cricket Test Series. I had bought the tickets a year before with the intention of taking clients and having a drunken day out on the
Continue readingCategory: Match report
Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk – but on no account mention the cricket
India v Australia Bangalore Test match report
3 minute readRitesh writes: It was my last day as a Bangalore resident – I was saying goodbye to the city after calling it home for seven years. It was a time for quiet reflection, for spending quality time with friends and eventually for inebriated celebration. Time, in other words, for a
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan 2010 Oval Test, day two match report
2 minute readBradders writes: One year on from my wedding, I was again confronted with the prospect of missing more cricket. This year, however, we had decided to have our anniversary in London rather than Ireland, therefore enabling us to go to the Oval for day two of the third Test. Technically,
Continue readingEngland v Australia 2009 Oval Test match report
< 1 minute readBradders writes: My wife Pauline and I were married on the 20th August 2009 in Adare, southern Ireland. Due to it being the first day of the final Test of the Ashes series, it was obviously a momentous day. Having booked the wedding a year before (and prior to the
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan at the Rose Bowl – match report
2 minute readWe told Sam that we would ‘get this one up before the Ashes at the very latest’. Sam writes: I finish work early on Wednesdays, so I dashed home in order to catch the remainder of the final one-day international between England and Pakistan. Being far too brassic to afford
Continue readingEngland v Australia, Adelaide 2010 match report
3 minute readDandy Dan writes: Some months ago myself, Price and the so-called ‘Will’ (from String’s Oval match report) organised a weekend of watching some comedy Scottish football and staying up through the night to watch something happening on the other side of the world. Unfortunately, whilst Price was able to catch
Continue readingAustralia v England, First Test, day three match report
< 1 minute readSorry for those of you still waiting for match reports to appear, but we thought we’d make an exception to our normal rules about leaving everything in the queue for months on end in order to maintain the Ashes theme. Remember that this isn’t Sam’s fault when you start the
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan at the Oval – match report
2 minute readString writes: I went to the fourth day of the Pakistan test at the Oval with Price, Dandy Dan and our friend Will. Anticipating sun, and wanting to protect my thinly covered scalp, I decided to wear my Ashes hat from the 1993 series. My Dad bought it for me
Continue readingOver 40s match report – Davenham v Grappenhall
2 minute readOur mum writes: Had an early tea in preparation for the long journey to the ground (five minutes’ walk round the corner). Noticed in passing an excellent crop of sloes in the hedgerow – will know where to come if our own fall short for the gin in the autumn.
Continue readingKent v Essex match report
2 minute readAndy writes: When I was told we were going on a stag do I was excited. Well, excited but concerned too, because I was also told it was in Canterbury. I met up with the lads and boarded the train. We had not seen each other for a few years
Continue reading