7 minute readThe story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a

December 19, 2018 Australia / India

The angry exchange between Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja basically just ends up comical once it’s been translated

< 1 minute read

December 18, 2018 Australia / India

Why India deserved to lose in Perth – explained with reference to a videogame that it turns out wasn’t actually Ikari Warriors after all but was pretty similar

3 minute read

December 14, 2018 Australia / India

Why are India so keen to keep Ravindra Jadeja in his pigeonhole?

< 1 minute read

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 18 19 20 21 22 … 78 Next Posts»

About King Cricket

Home
About us
Contact us
Get our articles by email
Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

Our Patreon crowdfunder

Buy our book

Search King Cricket

Latest features

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 10, 2025
The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?August 27, 2025

Read one of these next…

Can we pause for a moment and try and take stock of Mohammad Nabi’s ridiculous career?
Our very favourite thing about Netflix’s Cricket Fever: Lasith Malinga lurking in the background of every scene like a highly conspicuous ghost
Let’s try and identify England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer
Who is Test cricket’s greatest number eight? (Or: Which Test bowler was the best batsman?)
Danish Kaneria or Dane Vilas – who is most Danish?

Cricket history

Ancient history

King Cricket T-shirts

What we mostly seem to write about

England
Australia
India
Other nations
County cricket
IPL

Latest comments

Rhys Muir on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 17, 2025
Today was the kind of day where you can pretend things are going well until Australia actually bowl
cjw714 on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 17, 2025
I'm impressed you haven't smugly included a link to your prescient piece on the lack of opening bowlers in England's…
Tim Edwards on Five ways England’s Gabba defeat to Mitchell Starc and Australia’s medium-pacers was even worse than the first TestDecember 16, 2025
If we do lose 5-0 and the great gnashing of teeth, wringing of hands and debates about what went wrong…
Lizard on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 15, 2025
… Something something … Jack Russell? I concur. For all the nebulous concept of ‘Bazball’ seems to have proved to…
Tim on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 15, 2025
Yep. I loved it when M&S took over and talked about the importance of fun, winning not everything etc, because…

Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

Match reports

Cricket bats in unusual places

About King Cricket

Home
About us
Contact us
Get our articles by email
Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

Our Patreon crowdfunder

Tags

Adil Rashid Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Andrew Strauss Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket Ashes Ben Stokes Brendon McCullum Chris Gayle Chris Woakes Cricket bats in unusual places Cricket media David Warner Did you see Eoin Morgan Ian Bell IPL James Anderson Joe Root Jonathan Trott Jonny Bairstow Jos Buttler Kevin Pietersen King Cricket Laurence Elderbrook Lies about pictures Matthew Hayden Michael Clarke Mitchell Johnson Moeen Ali Monty Panesar Mop-up of the day MS Dhoni Ones to watch Paul Collingwood Photos Retirement Ricky Ponting Rob Key Sachin Tendulkar Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sim Series Steve Smith Stuart Broad Virat Kohli

WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.

Manage Cookie Consent

To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Cookies may be used for personalisation of ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Functional Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Manage options
Manage services
Manage {vendor_count} vendors
Read more about these purposes

View preferences

{title}
{title}
{title}