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October 2, 2013 County cricket / England

County Championship 2013 – statistical epilogue

< 1 minute readCricket fans adore statistics. For most of you, the sport itself is just a convenient means of generating data. Numbers are your true love. Here are some. Most runs Gary Ballance (Yorkshire) – 1,251 Wayne Madsen (Derbyshire) – 1,221 Sam Robson (Middlesex) – 1,180 Best batting averages (at least 10

October 1, 2013 Extras

If you were Samuel Beckett, who would you want to talk cricket with?

< 1 minute readFor those who don’t know, Samuel Beckett was a playwright. There is also a fictional character called Sam Beckett who was played by Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap, but this story isn’t about him. It’s about the guy who wrote Waiting For Godot. The playwright Samuel Beckett also played two

October 1, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – the final chapter

2 minute readLet’s wrap things up. As ever, all fixtures and team names may be incorrect. The writer accepts no responsibility for factual accuracy. 1st – Durham Having won the County Championship, Durham promptly lost to Sussex. 2nd – Yorkshire Yorkshire beat Middlesex with a young scamp by the name of Ryan

September 30, 2013 England

We wait on the Buttler

< 1 minute readIf you report on player transfers before they’ve been confirmed, you’re starting out on a slippery slope. Next thing you know, you’ve got a section of your website called ‘transfer gossip’ which wastes people’s time telling them about things which won’t happen. We’re not sure exactly where we’re up to

September 27, 2013 County cricket

Derbyshire are down

< 1 minute readWorcestershire Northamptonshire are up. Surrey have an 18-year-old who can score double hundreds and may finally stop dicking about hoovering up ageing stars from other counties. We’re thinking of rebranding King Cricket ‘the home of in-depth inaccurate county cricket coverage’.

September 25, 2013 Match report

England v Australia Champions’ Trophy match report

2 minute readSam writes: Birmingham gets a lot of stick. I’ve never been sure why. I think it’s because nobody really knows what it is. Is it north or south? Is it Britain’s second city or just a collection of old car factories? The comedy accent doesn’t help, nor does the list

September 23, 2013 England

England include a man called Gary Ballance in their Ashes squad

2 minute readThat’s what we think of you, punsome headlines. No way. No effing way. We might indulge in an opaque vertigo reference should Gary Ballance later get dropped, but that’s as much as you’re getting. So, the England squad then? You knew most of it anyway. These are the other bits.

September 23, 2013 Australia

When Mr Cricket became Mr Anecdote

< 1 minute readIf you’re thinking of reading Mike Hussey’s autobiography, you’d better HOLD ON TIGHT. Published excerpts reveal that after his final Test, the team were all going to have a boat party, but that Hussey didn’t want to go because his children wouldn’t have been allowed. Apparently some players wanted to

September 22, 2013 County cricket

Surrey are down

< 1 minute readLancashire are up. Nottinghamshire have won the one-day competition. Never let it be said that we can’t do “news”. If Reuters or Associated Press want to offer us a lucrative contract to churn out those inspid pieces which clog sports pages, we’re open to offers. It would be a dream

September 19, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – chapter 12

< 1 minute readIt’s worth squeezing in a wedger of a County Championship update, what with Durham having won the title and all. They have 10 wins and two draws from 15 matches and completely deserve their damp September glory. These aren’t necessarily final standings. Most teams still have a match and a