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September 14, 2012 County cricket

Derbyshire and Yorkshire promoted

< 1 minute readLancashire go down and their two neighbouring counties go up. So it goes. We haven’t been following division two, so we don’t really know how this has happened. Judging by the table and Jason Gillespie’s Twitter updates, Yorkshire have mostly been rained off and picking up points for draws. They

September 13, 2012 England / South Africa

Jos Buttler dismantles Wayne Parnell

< 1 minute readWayne Parnell went for 37 off two overs yesterday. He conceded five in the first. In the second, Jos Buttler took him apart as if he were an old, rotten shed which had tried to have sex with his daughter. We’re not exactly sure how a shed would go about

September 12, 2012 England / South Africa

What are England and South Africa playing for tonight?

< 1 minute readAre they playing for pride, honour, a trophy? No! They’re playing for momentum. Going into the Twenty20 World Cup with this batting line-up, England will need as much momentum as they can get, because it rather feels like they’re about to roll into a brick wall rather than a little

September 10, 2012 South Africa

Hashim Amla WILL NOT GO AWAY

< 1 minute readWe really like Hashim Amla, but by the box of Dujon, will he EVER stop batting? There’s one more match this summer and we have every reason to believe that he’ll bat out the overs and make a hundred. It seems the most likely outcome, even if it’s another nine

September 9, 2012 Extras

We have now published the answers to Bert’s crossword

< 1 minute readThey are on a separate page from the crossword itself. That way, if you happen to meet someone who’s into both cricket and cryptic crosswords (at your next AA meeting, for example) you can send them a link and they can attempt the crossword without having the answers staring them

September 6, 2012 County cricket

How did Warwickshire win the 2012 County Championship?

2 minute readBy being better than everyone else. They’ve won a few matches and when they haven’t won, they’ve generally drawn. They’ve only lost once. That’s easily enough to win the County Championship in a wet summer. Batting One thing Warwickshire players have been particularly good at this year is hitting the

September 5, 2012 England

Why we love Matt Prior

< 1 minute readRob Smyth is waxing lyrical about Matt Prior in The Spin, this week. We’re inclined to agree with him and not just because of Prior’s magnificent beard and love of cycling. Last week, we had a conversation with someone who has had a certain amount of contact with pretty much

September 4, 2012 County cricket

Count Cricket’s county cricket round-up – September 4th

2 minute readGood day to you all. I, Count Cricket, have been following Durham around these last few weeks in my role as King Cricket’s roving county cricket reporter. I have developed a taste for Onions, you see. He really is rather delicious. A few sips of warming brandy, combined with the

September 3, 2012 England

No more one-day internationals in 2012

< 1 minute readEngland have thrived since changes to one-day internationals led to lower totals. There – that’s our slightly premature England v South Africa series review done and dusted. Now let’s move onto an odd fact: Wednesday’s match will be the final 50-over international of the year involving any nation. Okay, so

September 2, 2012 Extras

The King Cricket crossword by Bert

2 minute readBert writes It’s time to move on. I’m bored with shenanigans. There’s only a certain amount of shenanigans a man can put up with. We need to get back to what unites us, which is cricket, not what divides us, which is, er, cricket. Anyway, I don’t want to see