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June 10, 2014 England

England’s reactive batting

< 1 minute readTwice last May, we wrote about England’s overwhelmingly reactive batting approach. First we described Kevin Pietersen as being England’s only proactive top order batsman; the only one prone to trying to set the field while at the crease. A week later, Pietersen wasn’t playing and Jonny Bairstow took on the

June 7, 2014 England

England will play a fairly fast bowler

2 minute readWe all knew that Sam Robson was going to get picked. He’ll play sensibly and probably quite well. If so, we’ll be quite happy about that while simultaneously wishing that we didn’t have to endure hilarious Australian ‘banter’ about his place of birth every time he gets a half-decent score.

June 4, 2014 Match report

Middlesex v Yorkshire day four – match report

2 minute readGed writes: It was a beautiful sunny day, the London Underground was on strike and I had arranged to work from home. I thought it would be a good idea to head over to Lord’s, catch some of the cricket and catch up with an increasingly large pile of background

June 2, 2014 England

The opposition are allowed to play well

< 1 minute readIs anyone else starting to find this kind of thing grating? “Sometimes you just have to put your hands up and say the opposition were better than us with the bat.” So said Alastair Cook after the fourth one-day international. There’s been an awful lot of ‘accepting that the opposition

June 2, 2014 Extras

At least two theories and several collapses

< 1 minute readThat’s what you can expect from our latest knock for All Out Cricket. In the preamble, All Out Cricket have accused us of having a ‘beady eye’ which is pretty much libel – we have two beady eyes and we make use of both of them. We’ve decided not to

May 31, 2014 England / Sri Lanka

One of you must have seen this match

< 1 minute readOr listened to it. Or paid a bit more attention to the scorecard than we did. In which case, please could you leave some sort of pithy synopsis in the comments section so that everyone else can feel like they got something of value out of visiting this website today?

May 30, 2014 England

We wrote about Paul Collingwood

< 1 minute readNo, like, we REALLY wrote about Paul Collingwood this time. It’s like a proper article for a proper website. You may have read it a couple of days ago, of course. If you did, we apologise, because this is all you’re getting here on King Cricket today. But why not

May 28, 2014 England

Didn’t see this one either

< 1 minute readWhich is a shame, because it looked rather fun. You may have noticed that some of our updates have been a little half-arsed cursory of late. However, you don’t get to be King Cricket without coming up with some really rather ingenious ways round being completely uninformed about things. Fortunately

May 28, 2014 Extras

We’re a bit disappointed if we’re honest

< 1 minute readWe honestly thought that someone would have left some sort of tirade in the comments section of our latest article for Cricinfo, but alas, it’s mostly just confusion. We demand a tirade! Fortunately, on Twitter someone said: “hey u never always boss nd god sachin” which might be a tirade.

May 27, 2014 Match report

Middlesex v Nottinghamshire day three – match report

3 minute readGed writes: Early season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to get over those winter withdrawal symptoms. Charley has his favourite place to sit at the start of play – “Death Row” right