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March 14, 2020 Regulars

A cat being conspicuously indifferent to the Boxing Day Test

< 1 minute readAP Webster writes: “Please find attached two pictures of my parents’ cat, Dusty (sadly not named after Dusty Rhodes), being conspicuously indifferent to the Sky pundits at lunchtime in the First Test at Centurion. “He is also showing considerable indifference to the pile of Christmas presents in front of the

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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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  1. Ged Ladd on If you want to bat for England, bat for Surrey. If you want to bowl for England, bowl for Sussex. And if you want to open for England…April 16, 2026

    I have just read Jerks In From Square Leg by Quid (1866), which in part alludes to the ridiculous flatty…

  2. A PWebster on If you want to bat for England, bat for Surrey. If you want to bowl for England, bowl for Sussex. And if you want to open for England…April 15, 2026

    Whilst The Hundred's big win has been getting cricket out there free-to-air for potential new fans, 'legacy cricket' (as it…

  3. Sam on If you want to bat for England, bat for Surrey. If you want to bowl for England, bowl for Sussex. And if you want to open for England…April 15, 2026

    Bad news https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3be120e67bef2c6e

  4. King Cricket on A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buyApril 13, 2026

    Have you seen the photo of him on the Beeb? Not the most flattering. He looks like Albert Steptoe.

  5. A P Webster on A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buyApril 13, 2026

    Was unbeaten with the bat in both innings as well. An up-and-coming all-rounder

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