< 1 minute readIf you spend some time travelling round India, you are highly likely to see a fairly generic brown dog roaming around. Today, in the second Test between India and England, one such dog precipitated the tea break when attendants failed to halt its pitch invasion. Here at King Cricket, we
Continue reading2 minute readGed writes: This was to be my last sighting of live cricket this season; even though it was a day one at Lord’s, I knew I was to be busy working or otherwise not around for the rest of the match. As tradition now has it, Charley “the Gent” Malloy
Continue reading< 1 minute readPlaying Australia is like playing Jenga with a house of cards when each of the cards is drunk. Before they played Sri Lanka, David Warner spoke of batting “well into the next day” but the team repeatedly folded as if prepared by Miura. Against South Africa at the Waca, they
Continue reading< 1 minute readPeople often talk of Test cricket as being a battle. A match can at times be like two medieval knights hacking away at each other, inflicting a whole series of ghastly wounds until one or the other finally succumbs. It doesn’t always work like that in India. Rather than a
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe pace of the world is too much for us these days. Haseeb Hameed is already defying other people’s expectations of him even before we’ve managed to form expectations for him to defy. Hameed has been labelled ‘Baby Boycott’ in some quarters. On the basis of what exactly? The fact
Continue reading2 minute readAny batting side can fold like a Bargain Booze leaflet pushed through the door, but it takes a certain amount of preparation to do this when it’s really expected of you. Confronted with a robust hard-to-open letterbox, Australia crumpled impressively. We watched the first six overs of their 85 all
Continue reading< 1 minute readIn another era, England could have embarked on this Test with no leg-spinner and little comprehension of reverse swing. Working their way through the Indian batting line-up would have been like trying to saw through a tree trunk with a butter knife. After days of toil, they’d have succeeded only
Continue reading< 1 minute readAnother day, another pre-Christmas autobiography by a gnarly old Australian cricketer. Brad Hogg’s The Wrong ‘Un surely warrants a mention though, if only for the anecdote about when Steve Waugh tricked him into thinking that some vitamin C pills needed to be inserted into his outbox. The story itself has
Continue reading2 minute readEngland have made too many runs and they don’t deserve any credit. India will now make more and England will lose. A lot of England supporters seem to have swiftly moved on from ‘England are doing brilliantly’ to ‘India would have done just as well had they batted so this
Continue reading< 1 minute readImagine that today is exactly like today only Moeen Ali made a duck. There, you see – things could be slightly worse. This isn’t so much a ‘glass half full’ attitude as a ‘there’s still something in there, I’m sure – maybe if I tip the glass the right way
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