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August 20, 2021 County cricket / Match report

A report from the first day of the Hundred at Lord’s

3 minute read This is the first of two match reports from the inaugural season of the Hundred. Here’s the second one. King Cricket match reports focus on what it was like to be at the game – not the match itself. Regular King Cricket contributor, Ged Ladd, writes… Daisy and I resolved

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July 22, 2021 County cricket / Features

Observations after half-watching the Hundred on TV with a couple of kids milling about the place

5 minute read We don’t really want to be an ambassador for the Hundred and nor are we in the #opposethehundred camp. Our natural habitat is the muddy middle ground, taking ineffectual potshots at both sides. But let’s for now bypass the argument about whether the competition represents the future or death of

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July 20, 2021 County cricket

Will The Hundred be even a third as ludicrous as the film 300?

2 minute read A lot of people think that The Hundred is ludicrous. To these people, we ask: “Have you not seen 300? That’s truly ludicrous.” The film 300 (which we’ve just this minute found out isn’t actually called “The 300”) is about 300 Spartans attempting to fend off over 300,000 Persians. Not

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May 28, 2021 County cricket / England

Haseeb Hameed, relationships and the toughness of love

2 minute read Everything unravelled for Haseeb Hameed at Lancashire. You got the sense that the unravelling momentum was so great towards the end that the county were switching between management strategies every other day in a desperate bid to stumble on something that worked. In contrast, Hameed’s new county, Nottinghamshire, have settled

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May 21, 2021 County cricket

The best part of Darren Stevens’ frankly insane 190 was what happened next

< 1 minute read Kent’s Darren Stevens has been making some incredible things happen in recent years. This season in particular. In fact he’s now reached a point where he is making bonkers things happen even when he’s no longer in the middle. If you don’t already know what happened today, 45-year-old Darren Stevens

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May 4, 2021 County cricket

Making sense of the County Championship 40% of the way through the group stage

2 minute read It’s very early May and it basically feels like winter, but we’re already well on the way to establishing the three divisions that will comprise the second phase of this year’s County Championship. (Here’s an explanation of how the Championship and other competitions will work this year.) 18 teams is

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April 28, 2021 County cricket

We’re mostly talking about Matt Parkinson this week

2 minute read Matt Parkinson bowled someone with a ball-of-the-century-esque leg break earlier this month. He is also the man responsible for the slowest delivery in the entire CricViz database. Last week he took 7-126 in Lancashire’s innings victory over Kent, meaning he now has 15 wickets at 16.80 this season – despite

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April 12, 2021 County cricket

A very obvious argument against tinkering with county cricket

2 minute read This is not an argument in favour of the status quo. This is not an argument to say never change things. It is just to point out that if you change every single county cricket competition, every single year, there are consequences. The format of county cricket has been tinkered

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April 9, 2021 County cricket

Darren Stevens: a quite magnificently durable Wookie of a cricketer

2 minute read Was there a specific moment when you realised you were no longer young? We’re assuming you’ve realised by now. If you haven’t, we’re sorry to break it to you, but… We remember being highly alarmed the first time we heard Calvin Harris sing, “I’ve got love for you if you

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April 6, 2021 County cricket

Things that are not rubbish about the Hundred: Sarah Taylor (+ videos)

2 minute read Say what you like about the Hundred, but it’s giving us Sarah Taylor when we otherwise wouldn’t have Sarah Taylor. The former England wicketkeeper is returning to professional cricket after joining Welsh Fire, having previously retired from cricket in 2019. We wonder how many times this year we’re going to

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