King Cricket

November 30, 2022 England / Pakistan

Half England’s Test squad have been repeatedly consumed by an urgent necessity

2 minute read You can take your own chef with you (Omar Meziane, if you’re wondering), but if you’re in a part of the world you don’t visit too often, there’s a decent chance you’ll come into contact with viruses that your immune system doesn’t know all that well. What we’re saying here

November 28, 2022 England / Pakistan

All three Pakistan v England Tests are expected to be sell-outs

2 minute read England’s last Test tour of Pakistan finished in December 2005. We launched King Cricket in January 2006. We are about to complete our first lap of Test cricket. That 2005 series finished 2-0 to Pakistan. Shoaib Akhtar and the not-especially-Danish Danish Kaneria skittled England on the fifth day of the

November 25, 2022 Regulars

Cricket in a Western

3 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. It is more than okay to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself if you want. Despite making efforts to steer clear of cricket at the minute, we’re rather struggling to switch on

November 22, 2022 Australia / England

When Jos Buttler says an Australia v England series is irrelevant, is that enough?

4 minute read England have just finished playing Australia in a one-day series. The first match came three days after the T20 World Cup final and the man who went on to captain England in the second game called that scheduling “horrible”. With the bare minimum diplomacy, England’s coach said the series was

November 21, 2022 Regulars

A cricket bat in a fishing programme

3 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. You are more than free – indeed you are actively encouraged – to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Send more of those ones please. If you’ve never seen Mortimer & Whitehouse:

November 16, 2022 Australia / England

The Test match that Simon Kerrigan and James Faulkner played

< 1 minute read Now that we’re in one of those occasional narrow windows when a World Cup isn’t taking place, it seems a good time to point you all towards the final episode of our podcast series about the 2013 Ashes. The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes comes to a climax with what will, for

November 14, 2022 Australia / England

So is everyone super-psyched about this Australia v England ODI series then?

2 minute read An Australia v England series starts this week. The old rivalry. Always an edge to it, bragging rights, a chance to make some sort of statement, yadda, yadda, yadda… The 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off features one of the all-time great film quotes. This is of course

November 13, 2022 England / Pakistan

Adil Rashid’s T20 World Cup final wicket maiden

2 minute read Everyone remembers the big over when a T20 batter lays into a bowler and the boundaries flow like overpriced beer in a cricket ground. What’s less obvious, but arguably more influential, is when an innings goes clanking off the rails with a trickle of downbeat gropes at thin air. Adil

November 11, 2022 England / Pakistan

The T20 World Cup final is on Channel 4 on Sunday and possibly also Monday

< 1 minute read UK readers are probably already aware of this, but just in case you’re not: Sky Sports have again done the surprisingly decent thing of agreeing to share the broadcast of England v Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final with Channel 4. The match is due to start at 8am

November 10, 2022 England / India

Adil Rashid, India’s top three and a premature death

3 minute read They talk a lot about ‘the death’ in T20 cricket. We’re not sure it’s an appropriate label for the latter stages of India’s T20 World Cup semi-final innings. They were already on life support after six overs and rigor mortis had pretty much set in by the end of the

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