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September 14, 2022 England / Features

12 England things that happened in the summer of 2022 – maybe they tell a story of some kind (or maybe they don’t)

6 minute read We did this last year, reasoning that a collage of moments from England’s home season might somehow paint a broader picture of where they stand right now. It feels like it does a little bit – but then who knows what’ll come next. New dawns are widely regarded as immaculately

September 12, 2022 England / South Africa

Ollie Robinson’s wicket celebration is becoming very familiar

2 minute read Ollie Robinson doesn’t do his pointing upper-cut celebration every time he takes a wicket, but he does it often enough that it certainly feels like he does. Plenty of bowlers have had signature celebrations over the years – little sequences of actions they reflexively do in response to each dismissal.

September 9, 2022 England / South Africa

Rain and reign and the annual carry-over Test

< 1 minute read Is this a thing now? Is the scheduled last Test of each summer forever destined to be played the following year? We’re jumping the gun here, but there’s at least some sort of a chance we’re going to have to run a Sim Series here, isn’t there? After first rain

September 7, 2022 England / South Africa

It’s Harry Brook’s turn at the bar

2 minute read After one innings victory apiece, the third and final Test between England and South Africa will surely end up either a high-scoring draw or a low-scoring tie. England’s new number five, Harry Brook, would presumably prefer the former as all things being equal that increases the chances he’ll make a

September 5, 2022 Match report

The Hundred Finals 2022 match report

3 minute read Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Daisy writes… The headline picture was actually taken by Ged

September 2, 2022 England

Dropping Jason Roy means England have finally achieved their 2007 goals

2 minute read It was coming. It’s happened. England have named their T20 World Cup squad and they’ve dropped Jason Roy. In keeping with this website’s policy of actively spurning all the audience-attracting potential of writing about a topic when it’s “hot,” we said pretty much all we want to say about this

August 31, 2022 Pakistan

What’s happening with Shaheen Shah Afridi’s knee?

2 minute read Shaheen Shah Afridi has a knee injury. So far, so mundane – but if there is one cricket body that can manage a fast bowler’s physical wellbeing in a colourful and unexpected way, it is the Pakistan Cricket Board. Remember when Shoaib Akhtar had genital warts? Of course you do,

August 30, 2022 Match report

The Old Trafford mat-fitting scandal – a match report

3 minute read Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Bert reckons the following match report “reasonably accurately” covers the

August 29, 2022 Match report

Ben Stokes was at best only partly responsible for the most exciting moment of the second Test

3 minute read We were at Old Trafford on Friday for the Bens’ hundreds. There were some tense moments and some exciting moments and Ben Stokes didn’t play a direct role in all of them. We’re not sure whether his pride was pricked by this old match report, but the day began with

August 24, 2022 England

Ollie Robinson has been given a golden opportunity to develop a new ailment

< 1 minute read That feels the most likely outcome here. You pick Ollie Robinson and generally something goes wrong with him. This time around our money’s on – ooh, let’s see – auto-brewery syndrome. To whisk through Robinson’s last few months once again, it’s gone back spasm, back spasm, tooth infection, food poisoning,