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July 26, 2021 Match report

Watching live cricket in the time of Covid: England v New Zealand at Lord’s (the Allen Stand)

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes…

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June 29, 2021 Match report

An epic tale of watching the 2019 World Cup Final in Bentota

5 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. King Cricket reader and semi-regular contributor Ritesh

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June 16, 2021 Match report

A 1997 Ridiculous Ashes podcast match report

2 minute readRegular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… I listened to each of the first four Tests of the 1997 Ridiculous Ashes podcast while resting my back on the bed, early evening, following early morning starts. I can report that this method reliably sends me to sleep after 10 to 15

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June 4, 2021 Match report

As cricket crowds (partially) return – what’s it been like to be in the stands at Lord’s this week?

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes…

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May 24, 2021 Match report

A 1996 Cricket World Cup final match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes…

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May 12, 2021 Match report

Yard and beach cricket in April – a match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Conversely, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. King Cricket reader and regular contributor Sam

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April 14, 2021 Match report

Ged Ladd & Co v Children’s Society XI – match report + wagon wheel

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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March 17, 2021 Match report

Players (of the left) v Gentlemen (of the right) – match report + wagon wheel

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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January 4, 2021 Match report

Cricket on a tea estate near Darjeeling – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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September 2, 2020 Match report

Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report

2 minute readWe always enjoy a tale of trying to follow the cricket without actually watching the cricket. Today, day four of the 2019 Headingley Ashes Test… Sam writes: The following is a true story. I removed my headphones, dusted down my grass-stained trousers and skipped giddily back to the car, children

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  1. Ged Ladd on Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah lead two strong bowling attacks sitting out the fifth TestJuly 31, 2025

    Typically tropical London weather. When we do gloom in London we do proper gloom. None of that lily-livered northern gloom.

  2. Buttface on Can Ben Stokes really carry on doing all of the things? And what’s Shubman Gill’s lifespan as a captain?July 31, 2025

    T'is true Ged. I don't look at the press, so my comment is on what I saw and heard and…

  3. King Cricket on Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah lead two strong bowling attacks sitting out the fifth TestJuly 31, 2025

    You really have to question the wisdom of holding so many Test matches there when this keeps happening.

  4. A P Webster on Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah lead two strong bowling attacks sitting out the fifth TestJuly 31, 2025

    Typical London rain, I see 😉

  5. King Cricket on Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah lead two strong bowling attacks sitting out the fifth TestJuly 31, 2025

    Hard to say given the pitches for the first four Tests. Probably fair to say he's a bowler who's always…

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