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October 18, 2019 Match report

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

Send 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

Send 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

I 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

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August 10, 2019 Regulars

Stanley being conspicuously indifferent to the Ashes

If 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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March 28, 2019 Match report

A legitimate excuse for missing Warwickshire v Kent in County Championship Division Two last year (a match report)

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March 19, 2019 Regulars

Stumps in a Salford toilet

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December 13, 2018 Regulars

A cricket being conspicuously indifferent to the Home of Cricket

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  • Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?
  • The 1997 Ridiculous Ashes – all six episodes
  • The worst Test bowling averages of all time
  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
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  • Our very favourite thing about Netflix’s Cricket Fever: Lasith Malinga lurking in the background of every scene like a highly conspicuous ghost

Get the DeLorean up to 88mph

A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

  • England cricketers’ heads drop
  • Kevin Pietersen’s tough life
  • Nathan Hauritz – number one Australian spinner
  • Why Bangladesh are potentially having a reasonably well-attended party
  • Listen to the tin!

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

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RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • King Ghidorah being conspicuously indifferent to a pile of cricket books
  • A cat being conspicuously indifferent to the Boxing Day Test
  • Stanley being conspicuously indifferent to the Ashes

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 ball lurking behind UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock
  • Cricket bats in a jigsaw
  • A cricket bat in a wrestling match

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