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April 10, 2017 County cricket

Mark Footitt and some other stuff: a review of the first round of the County Championship

2 minute readThe first round of the County Championship is over. Here are some of the things that happened. Hampshire beat Yorkshire This match was one for true connoisseurs of momentum in cricket. Hampshire had all the momentum when Yorkshire fell to 152-7 in their first innings, but momentum being momentum, it

April 8, 2017 County cricket

Who is Ben Coad, Yorkshire’s new strike bowler?

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Earlier this week, Ben Coad was just some dude; some dude called Ben Coad; a young bowler whose Cricinfo profile page has him down as a ‘workhorse seamer’. A couple of days into the county season and he’s Ben Coad, strike bowler. He finished the first

April 6, 2017 County cricket

A preview of the first round of County Championship matches?

2 minute readDon’t expect us to ever do this again – and not just because the competition will, by definition, be moving onto the second round of matches next week. Essex v Lancashire This is the only one anyone really cares about, because everyone supports Lancashire. That’s what our empathy tells us.

April 5, 2017 Extras

There’s a King Cricket County Championship fantasy league after all

< 1 minute readAs with so many things, we sort of half-floated the idea with no real enthusiasm and then someone else went ahead and sorted it out. Mike has set up The King Cricket CBA Cup within The Telegraph’s county fantasy league thing. CBA stands for ‘can’t be arsed’ to reflect the

April 4, 2017 County cricket / Extras

As the IPL and County Championship loom into view, which fantasy cricket game is best?

2 minute readIf there’s one thing we like about fantasy cricket leagues, it’s eking out our few remaining fantasy points/doubloons over half a dozen all-but-unknown cricketers to complete our XI after going a bit overboard with our first two selections and an unsuccessful attempt to rein things in a bit with the

April 3, 2017 County cricket

County cricketers to watch 2017

2 minute readWe stopped doing this in 2014 because we always seemed to end up picking much the same bunch of players as the year before with perhaps one or two replacements. In short, it had become a bit boring and whenever we threw a leftfield selection into the mix to liven

March 31, 2017 Extras

I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the ‘is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend?’ edition

< 1 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend? Never particularly struck us as one. Why? Saw him interviewed on the news wearing shades and a

March 30, 2017 Extras

Cricket recipe: Ged Ladd’s “Home Of Cricket” Glazed Drunken Prawns

2 minute readKing Cricket was one of my guests the first time I cooked and served this dish. Although he praised the dish, KC also described the glaze as “less of a glaze, more of a gelatinous gloop”. Well I can assure you, King Cricket, my original attempt at Throdkin was gloopy,

March 29, 2017 County cricket / Extras

Free-to-air cricket debate is short-sighted in the internet age

2 minute readThere’s been a few headlines about the possibility of some free-to-air cricket off the back of the ECB’s proposed new T20 league. People get excited about this sort of thing, but the whole point of free-to-air is that it opens up a larger market, yet this is a form of

March 28, 2017 India

Virat Kohli is basically livid about beating Australia

2 minute readVirat Kohli must be the dictionary definition of hard-to-please, for no-one on earth is an enraged by their own success as he is. When Kohli makes a hundred, he’s angry. When his team wins a series over Australia – even though he’s not actually playing – he’s positively enraged. We’ve

Stranger things have happened. This is English cricket after all. You might come to Rew the day you wrote this…

We keep wilfully suppressing the urge to write more equivocally on this. But yeah, that would be a corker.

To be fair to the ECB, they also haven't been averse to picking Second XI Somerset players over the first-teamers.

England now have the opportunity to do the funniest, funniest, funniest thing possible and pick Zak Crawley again.

It has to be said that those who suffer the neck-breathing are presumably the least likely to willingly open the…

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

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The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing