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July 26, 2018 England

The three main changes you can always make to the England Test team

2 minute readWhen a Test squad’s due to be announced, everyone normally has a default XI in mind and then we all make swaps according to our own prejudices. Typically, everyone wants to make between one and three changes. Change No 1 is when you replace the rubbish batsman you hate with

July 25, 2018 County cricket / Extras

Sorry about this but we’re going to report the latest rumours about The Hundred

2 minute readThat joke isn’t funny any more. You know the one. The one where you make up an outlandish format detail about The Hundred in an effort to satirise the ECB. The problem is that while The Hundred seems like rich source material, it really isn’t. The joke suggestions are too

July 24, 2018 Australia

Watch the Al Jazeera match fixing documentary

2 minute readIf you want to watch that Al Jazeera documentary about match-fixing (spot fixing, actually) to see for yourself whether the allegations have any merit, here it is (or click here). The film went out in May, but it’s in the news again this week because Glenn Maxwell’s been talking about

July 23, 2018 Match report

Essex v West Indies indoctrination of a young mind match report

2 minute readDan writes: My seven year old son looks a demon with the bat in his hands in the back garden, and he actually pays attention when the cricket’s on the TV. He seems to reserve special interest for the Test matches, which is very pleasing. So this summer we signed

July 20, 2018 England / India

We made up a word and Wisden published it

< 1 minute readThe word is ‘schedusfaction’ and it means ‘satisfaction with the scheduling of a cricket tour’. We didn’t realise the world had use for such a word until this summer. England are about to play a Test series against India. You may be aware of this and that might be because

July 18, 2018 England / India

Virat Kohli’s ‘I’ve just been bowled by Adil Rashid’ face

< 1 minute readWhen we wrote about what it’s like to be Virat Kohli, we didn’t for one minute think that there would be any overlap with what it’s like to be Mike Gatting. Turns out there is. Virat Kohli and Mike Gatting both do a thing where they make an astonished face

July 17, 2018 England / India

Please can we very quickly talk about that very fine MS Dhoni innings in the last one-dayer?

2 minute readImagine a tiger hunting a deer. He’s squatting down in the undergrowth, taut and primed to strike. The deer is ambling around just in front of him, oblivious. When the deer gets close enough, the tiger will leap out and bite him in the neck. The deer mills around. He

July 16, 2018 Extras

A cricket book in the Vintage Mobile Cinema

< 1 minute readGed writes: I flew up to Edinburgh for a bit of Fringe, taking with me only The Kings Of Summer by Duncan Hamilton and a collapsible brolly. Amongst other things, we visited the Vintage Mobile Cinema, which was interesting and fun. I neglected to actually photograph the book in the

July 13, 2018 England / India

There are many different ways to get out to Kuldeep Yadav

2 minute readHere’s Jason Roy getting it not-right again Kuldeep Yadav. Here’s Roy’s follow-through. You may notice that he’s hitting the ball in the air while simultaneously falling on his arse. It seems safe to assume this probably wasn’t the outcome he envisaged. Now here’s Joe Root getting it very not-right. This

July 11, 2018 Regulars

Leo being conspicuously indifferent to tickets to Ireland’s first men’s Test match

< 1 minute readChuck says that Leo’s indifferent to everything except food. The tickets were used for this match. If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk.