Skip to content
King Cricket

King Cricket

Independent and irreverent cricket writing

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • About us
  • Contact us

Category: India

September 28, 2019 Australia / England / India

13 things that happened this summer that sort of sum things up but mostly don’t

Continue reading
July 16, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia / Bangladesh / England / India / New Zealand / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka / West Indies

13 proper highlights from the 2019 Cricket World Cup (and none are from the final because the final was a whole thing all of its own)

Continue reading
July 10, 2019 India / New Zealand

Why umpire Richard Kettleborough’s face was the best thing about MS Dhoni’s run-out

2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final, India v New Zealand As you all know, the greatest umpire face of this World Cup was when Jason Roy flattened umpire Joel Wilson and tried to say sorry and Joel Wilson didn’t really feel that the apology was entirely welcome. This one was good

Continue reading
July 10, 2019 India / New Zealand

No-one can let a run-chase get away from him quite like MS Dhoni

2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final, India v New Zealand

Continue reading
July 9, 2019 India / New Zealand

Is there any chance Kane Williamson’s 95-ball 67 was a good knock?

2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final, India v New Zealand

Continue reading
July 8, 2019 India

Does Rohit Sharma get out more beautifully than anyone else?

Continue reading
June 29, 2019 England / India

Pressure + wrist spin = what? Is it time to revert to full pessimism about England’s World Cup prospects?

2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 38, England v India

Continue reading
June 27, 2019 India / West Indies

What was Chris Gayle’s “diving stop” like?

2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 34, India v West Indies

Continue reading
June 19, 2019 India

Please can we talk about the time Rohit Sharma ate 25 fried eggs in one go?

Continue reading
June 15, 2019 India / Pakistan

When will it rain during the India v Pakistan match?

Continue reading

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 62 Next Posts»

Search King Cricket

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • King Cricket's Edge (an occasional newsletter)
  • Follow us on Twitter

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder




RSS Features

  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
  • Let’s try and identify England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer
  • The Awkwardest Squad: Why the 96/97 “flippin’ murdered ’em” tour of Zimbabwe was peak 90s England (a net bowler’s story)
  • Goldenarms: The best part-time bowlers in the history of Test cricket
  • Which Australia player was least happy about rewatching their Headingley 2019 nightmare?
  • Our very favourite thing about Netflix’s Cricket Fever: Lasith Malinga lurking in the background of every scene like a highly conspicuous ghost
  • Which England all-rounder has the worst record as captain – Botham, Flintoff or Stokes?
  • Let’s use Ken Nordine’s word jazz album ‘Colors’ to work out who’s going to win the 2020 IPL
  • When Mike Atherton was run-out for 99 – was this the worst ‘no’ in the history of cricket?
  • Behold the rich tapestry of emotions when Stuart Broad dropped yet another catch off Jimmy Anderson but then ran the batsman out

Get the DeLorean up to 88mph

A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

  • Some horror involving Alec Stewart
  • Batter or batsman? | Fielder or fieldsman?
  • Steve Harmison batting
  • Younus Khan thinks Twenty20 is only a fun game
  • Nice cricket T-shirts

Manifesto

  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
  • Runs don't have a fixed value
  • Play fewer matches
  • Keep the Ashes an 'event'
  • Play on good pitches
  • Why wickets, not runs, are what's important
  • Always play a spinner
  • What is bad light?
  • The second division of the County Championship doesn't count

Latest appeals

  • King Cricket on Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day
  • Ged Ladd on Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day
  • Adam on Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day
  • King Cricket on Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day
  • A P Webster on Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat being conspicuously indifferent to the Boxing Day Test
  • Stanley being conspicuously indifferent to the Ashes
  • A cricket being conspicuously indifferent to the Home of Cricket

RSS Match reports

  • Cricket on a tea estate near Darjeeling – a match report
  • Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report
  • An Ashes-themed conversation starter pack on moral and ethical issues (a match report)

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

  • A cricket bat in a wrestling match
  • A cricket bat lurking on a street corner
  • A ‘totemistic’ cricket bat in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock

King Cricket on Twitter

Tweets by TheKingsTweets

King Cricket History

WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.