< 1 minute read Having badmouthed TMS last week, we feel that we should redress the balance and one person we’ve really warmed to has been South African journalist Neil Manthorp. Somehow we’ve never heard a lot of Manthorp before, or maybe we just haven’t noticed him, but on scant evidence he’s now our
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Mark Pougatch on TMS
< 1 minute read We’ve nothing against Mark Pougatch personally, but he doesn’t bring a great deal to Test Match Special. It smacks of the Manish Bhasin debacle during the Ashes and the World Cup. On the plus side, at least he doesn’t sound like some throwback to the British Raj, unlike some of
Continue readingYes, they really are letting us do that and no, we don’t know why
< 1 minute read We’re doing some writing on The Wisden Cricketer website as part of our Care in the Community rehabilitation scheme. It’s okay – we’re being supervised. The Wisden Cricketer is a friend to cricket blogs, so we feel obliged to link to their home page as well as our first blog
Continue readingMatch reports and other assorted crap
< 1 minute read Just to let you all know, we’ve changed our email address to kingcricket@hotmail.co.uk. Our old email provider, Bluebottle, said we had to start paying for their service. They gave us 72 hours notice. Any of the following will be more than welcome at the new address: (1) Match reports. Keep
Continue readingThe eleventh most influential sports blog in Britain
< 1 minute read That’s us. Apart from the top ten, we’re first! We were going to change the title of the site to ‘King Cricket – eleventh most influential sports blog in Britain’, but what if we go up a place or so? When do you cross the line from self-deprecating joke to
Continue readingBlog of the month
< 1 minute read We’re blog of the month at Simply Cricket. This comes hot on the heels of being The Wisden Cricketer’s Best Of Blogs for April. We haven’t had so much recognition since we were in India and everyone thought we were Nasser Hussain. This recent recognition is hopefully more justified, if
Continue readingWe’re in The Wisden Cricketer!
2 minute read The Wisden Cricketer’s a proper, grown-up publication. Look, it’s actually tangible! Here’s the bit where it says that it’s “the world’s no.1 cricket magazine”. And here’s us! No, really. Look! And here’s Monty being conspicuously indifferent to it. Turning away OR closing your eyes would have been sufficient, young man.
Continue readingCricket Revolution screenshots
< 1 minute read New cricket game! It’s not out yet though, so we’ve no idea how good it is. It doesn’t matter really. If our short-lived, poorly-paid career as a videogame ‘journalist’ taught us anything, it’s that previews of games only need pictures. Mervyn Athrapatta’s going along nicely. We’ve rather unhelpfully shrunk this
Continue readingBook review: If It Was Raining Palaces I’d Get Hit By The Dunny Door
2 minute read Yes, it’s good. There’s a review for you. Okay, let’s do a little bit more. First of all, the title. If It Was Raining Palaces I’d Get Hit By The Dunny Door is quite transparently a bit of Australian slang. It’s a way of saying you’re unlucky even when it’s
Continue readingOpen verdict on Bob Woolmer’s death
< 1 minute read You could have guessed, couldn’t you? Bob Woolmer’s death has veered from sad to sickening and back to merely sad again. It was to be expected that no real conclusions would be drawn. We’re going to put most weight by the part where they say that there was ‘insufficient evidence
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