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May 24, 2021 Match report

A 1996 Cricket World Cup final match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes…

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May 12, 2021 Match report

Yard and beach cricket in April – a match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Conversely, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. King Cricket reader and regular contributor Sam

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April 14, 2021 Match report

Ged Ladd & Co v Children’s Society XI – match report + wagon wheel

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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March 17, 2021 Match report

Players (of the left) v Gentlemen (of the right) – match report + wagon wheel

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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January 4, 2021 Match report

Cricket on a tea estate near Darjeeling – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Herbert Ackgrass (the official cricket biographer of

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September 2, 2020 Match report

Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report

2 minute readWe always enjoy a tale of trying to follow the cricket without actually watching the cricket. Today, day four of the 2019 Headingley Ashes Test… Sam writes: The following is a true story. I removed my headphones, dusted down my grass-stained trousers and skipped giddily back to the car, children

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June 4, 2020 Match report

An Ashes-themed conversation starter pack on moral and ethical issues (a match report)

2 minute readGed writes: The Heavy Rollers has been a cricket-watching group, primarily at Edgbaston, for more than 20 years. This year, for the first time, we were joined by some antipodean guests of Nigel Father-Barry’s. I hesitate to use the term “the enemy”, but, let’s be frank about it, England cricket

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May 29, 2020 Match report

Watching (and missing) a dramatic day of England v West Indies in 2000 – a match report

< 1 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. William went to day three of the

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May 6, 2020 Match report

This guy paid £50 for a £300 ticket to go and see England v South Africa at the Oval with some strangers – a match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. William went to England v South Africa

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April 20, 2020 Match report

Straight Outta the Upper Compton – 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.) Regular match reporter Ged Ladd titled this particular missive ‘The

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  1. King Cricket on A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mileJune 2, 2025

    You never know what you're going to get with an ODI, but that was a good one. As is Root.

  2. Paul on A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mileJune 2, 2025

    I went to see the second ODI! Great innings from Root. Even in the context of him being, well, the…

  3. JW on A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mileMay 30, 2025

    What about Kemar Roach…..??

  4. Balladeer on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 29, 2025

    Leicestershire!!!!! That's my informed comment on the matter.

  5. daneel on What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplanMay 28, 2025

    Seems as good a time as ever to talk about Division 2 stuff, if you ask me. I don't understand…

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