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January 15, 2025 Regulars

A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket

< 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… I bring updates on previously-featured feline indifference to Boxing Day Tests and cricket in general. As I was checking in on the South Africa v Pakistan Test over

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November 20, 2024 Match report

Some bloke catching another bloke in a 2001 charity match (a match report)

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’s official cricket biographer, Herbert Ackgrass, writes… The match

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November 17, 2024 Extras

We’ve reduced some of your crowdfunding pledges

3 minute readOne of the great things about Patreon as a crowdfunding platform is that you can adjust the sums associated with your various membership tiers. All the info on that site seems to assume you will only ever be increasing these so that you can make more money. We have decided

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November 13, 2024 Extras

The next innings of social media – following-on

3 minute readUsing social media sites has always felt to us a little like building a user base for someone else’s website. We did however enjoy using Twitter in a casual, in-the-moment, thinking-out-loud kind of way and we always felt that worked well while games were actually in progress. But now it

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November 8, 2024 Match report

Sunrise without enlightenment – a Sunrisers v South East Stars match report

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… DAISY: So who are the Sunrisers? GED:

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October 28, 2024 Extras

DEVICE NEWS! (A match report being conspicuously indifferent to cricket in an unusual place)

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. As Chuck will tell you, we do actually check our inbox from time to time. Chuck writes… I recently attended a non-cricket match – actually a Pixies concert – in the Simmonscourt Arena in the

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September 16, 2024 Match report

Edgbaston Cricket Ground’s spectator code of conduct (a match report)

3 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 Blackledge attended day two of this year’s England v

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August 15, 2024 Regulars

Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being

2 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Ged Ladd writes… Daisy and I celebrated her release without charge from The Old Bailey (at the end of two weeks’ jury service, I hasten to add) by attending the Nell Mescal

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August 7, 2024 Regulars

Is Winter (the cat) truly indifferent to cricket?

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Balladeer writes… These are Mysie the calico and Winter the black cat. They joined the Balladeer household in June. They’re rather cute when they’re not kicking each other’s heads in or digging

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July 24, 2024 Match report

James Anderson’s final Test warm-up and the all-important sourcing of provisions for that game (a match report)

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… I was at Lord’s when Jimmy Anderson

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  1. Tim on Watch out! Rahmanullah Gurbaz has discovered a new angleFebruary 13, 2026

    Yes! Sydney schmydney. Go Zimbabwe! Maybe there is a point to this tournament after all

  2. Ged Ladd on Watch out! Rahmanullah Gurbaz has discovered a new angleFebruary 13, 2026

    What a demolition that Italian job was. Those Mosca brothers were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off. “Sydney…

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    This seems to have been match of the tournament - with Italy's unexpected ten wicket victory close second? But overall…

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    Point well made, KC.

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    I’m doing some truly dull admin this morning, which naturally allowed my mind to wander. I had never actually heard…

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