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April 8, 2013 County cricket

Advantage to Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire in the County Championship

< 1 minute read We’re going to stay on top of the County Championship this season. They’re not going to evade us by slipping matches in during Test matches or by pretending they’re in the middle of a long spell playing one of the shorter formats when they’re not. We’re staying focused. With that

April 5, 2013 County cricket

King Cricket’s county players to watch in 2013

2 minute read This article originally began: “Another year, another batch of middling cricketers, one of whom will get picked in some sort of performance squad giving us a very flimsy sense of having been right about something at least once in our life.” What prescience. Yesterday Rikki Clarke was included in a

April 4, 2013 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii / India

The best players for a fantasy IPL team

< 1 minute read We selected a fantasy IPL team on Cricinfo and were about to set up a league so that people could compete against us when we suddenly thought: ‘No, wait, this is bollocks.’ Do you want to know who the best players are for a Cricinfo fantasy IPL team? It’s whoever

April 3, 2013 Regulars

Two cats being indifferent to King Cricket

< 1 minute read Bradders writes: “Please see evidence of the indifference shown by my two cats (Jaffa on left, Seamus the Celtic Warrior on right) to cricket, but also more specifically your website. “I left it on for a bit and for a while nothing happened. However, eventually Jaffa (through some careful standing

April 2, 2013 Australia

Australia’s secret squad

< 1 minute read ICC: Hi Australia, could you possibly name your long list of 30 players for the Champions Trophy. You don’t have to name your 15-man squad yet, just a bunch of players who might appear in it. Cricket Australia: No. ICC: Er, why not? Cricket Australia: Because that’s just what they’ll

March 28, 2013 New Zealand

Coverage of the attack on Jesse Ryder

< 1 minute read If you haven’t already seen, Jesse Ryder is in an induced coma after being assaulted. He has a fractured skull. We aren’t going to write too much about this, because the site is the wrong tone for that kind of news and therefore it just doesn’t seem appropriate. For similar

March 27, 2013 India

Two things wrong with the 2013 IPL

< 1 minute read Let’s start slowly. We’ve plenty of time. Two things for now. More may follow. 1. Adam Gilchrist is playing Adam Gilchrist is about 110 years old. More importantly, he is not a cricketer. He was once, but he isn’t any more. No cricket competition should field people who aren’t cricketers.

March 26, 2013 England

What’s today’s barometer reading?

2 minute read Some read yesterday’s post as being criticism of Ian Bell, which wasn’t really how it was intended. We just feel that of all the England players, his performances are the ones that most closely correlate with how the team fares. On day five of the third Test against New Zealand,

March 25, 2013 England / New Zealand

The barometer says England never looked like winning

< 1 minute read Talk of an England win has been unjustifiably common during this Test. You never know what’s likely to happen in a match, but you can tailor conversation according to likelihood and at no point has an England victory seemed probable. Even talking about how they could possibly engineer a winning

March 22, 2013 England / New Zealand

Two-metre Peter from New Zealand

< 1 minute read He has one of our favourite nicknames in international cricket, so we’re secretly slightly pleased that Peter Fulton scored a hundred against England because it means he should get a few more matches. Set against that is the fact that he was averaging 23 before the first day’s play, so