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March 1, 2020 Regulars

A cricket jumper in an episode of Seinfeld

< 1 minute readGeorge Costanza would bowl Ian Blackwell-esque flat, non-spinning spin. He would bat at number nine and make regular 20s but never pass 50. George Costanza would frequently be involved in run outs. George Costanza would spend a lot of time off the field with the team doctor in the mistaken

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December 10, 2019 Regulars

A cricket ball in Netflix’s Designated Survivor

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Hoopy writes: After deciding I was going to waste a Saturday between mowing the lawn, chatting shit to mates, finishing Borderlands 2 (again) and watching telly, I came up with this. It’s a scene from

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November 27, 2019 Match report

What does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish? (a match report)

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail. Ged writes: “What does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish?” I wondered to myself ahead of

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October 18, 2019 Match report

A mouse in cricket whites at The Home of Corks – a match report

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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October 9, 2019 Match report

“I had an idea how the day would pan out but I went anyway” – a match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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September 11, 2019 Regulars

The impact of Headingley 2019 | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It

2 minute readI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It is a semi-regular feature where we ask a fella called Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not.

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September 10, 2019 Match report

A match report from a man who claims to have “won the Ashes single-handedly”… in Galle

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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August 10, 2019 Regulars

Stanley being conspicuously indifferent to the Ashes

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk.

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May 28, 2019 Match report

What was it like to go and see Hampshire v Somerset in the 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup Final?

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April 23, 2019 Match report

What was it like to watch New Zealand v South Africa at the Basin Reserve? (a match report)

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