2 minute read The number one highlight of a friend’s stag-do was when we all took it in turns to throw stones into the sea using our ‘other’ arm. (Which is to say the non-doing arm – the left one for us.) When throwing with your wrong arm, the more effort you put
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Books to read at the cricket? The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
< 1 minute read Have you tried to read summat while at a cricket match? Let us know how it went at king@kingcricket.co.uk Edwardian writes: This was the day Alastair Cook scored his final Test century. I was at Lord’s to watch Middlesex play Kent and also to meet up with regular King Cricket
Continue readingLive cricket’s great and all – but so’s all this stuff
3 minute read A few days ago, we mentioned on Twitter that we aren’t likely to run out of things to write about for as long as the whole history of Test cricket has still happened. You may have noticed we’ve been doing a few more features of late and that’s just fine
Continue readingThe unique and overlooked ways that cricket was ahead of the game in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic
2 minute read A couple of times recently, we’ve made the point that cricket not happening is very much an integral part of cricket. We once travelled all the way to Birmingham to spend an entire day watching cricket not happen, so doing the same thing from the comfort of our own home
Continue readingRain, redesigns and response times | Mop-up of the day
2 minute read No amount of mopping-up would have been sufficient to ensure the T20 World Cup semi-final between England and India would have taken place. With no reserve day, India went through to the final because they came top in the group stage. Harmanpreet Kaur reckoned India had taken the rules into
Continue readingWe’re losing our Edge
< 1 minute read Tomorrow’s issue of The Edge, our newsletter, will unfortunately be the final one for a little while as we’ve reached the end of Cricket 365’s sponsorship. The Edge is fun to write, but time-consuming, so without a sponsor it’ll have to go into hiatus/a coma. Think of it like a
Continue readingEngland go Wagner, Azhar Ali enjoys captaincy and Pat Cummins makes many crores | Mop-up of the day
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Continue readingAB de Villiers Retirement Watch, emails and answers | Mop-up of the day
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Continue readingYou can never replace Bob Willis
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