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July 18, 2022 Match report

T20 Blast Finals Day 2022 – match report

2 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.) Sam Blackledge had a press pass for T20 Blast Finals

July 13, 2022 England / Features

Eoin Morgan – the captain who ignored everyone and gave England ambition

8 minute read England were a one-day team who didn’t know how to top 300 – didn’t even dare to try. Eoin Morgan turned them into the best flat track batting side there’s ever been. It’s worth taking stock of the scale of that transformation and the conviction of the captain who achieved

July 11, 2022 India

We basically hate Suryakumar Yadav although it isn’t really his fault

3 minute read We have really taken against Suryakumar Yadav and we feel quite bad about that but we also can’t help it. Suryakumar Yadav is widely known as “Sky”. He said Gautam Gambhir gave him the nickname because they’re his initials. Only they’re not his initials, are they? Because he’s not Surya

July 7, 2022 Match report

Western Storm v Sunrisers – match repoem

< 1 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.) They don’t have to rhyme. Sam sent us the following

July 5, 2022 England / India

Ben Stokes’ England are so far beating their greatest enemy – second-guessing themselves

4 minute read “It’s a game of failure, batting,” said Joe Root five minutes after this Test finished. The statement was on the one hand very sage and on the other just plain wrong. Four times in a row England have chased a lot of runs to win. This would be remarkable even

July 3, 2022 England / India

Ranked: All eight deliveries in Stuart Broad’s world record 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah

4 minute read Some people said Stuart Broad’s 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah reminded them of when Yuvraj Singh hit him for 36 in the T20 World Cup that time. But it was not like that. It was not like that at all. This was much, much better and funnier. There’s actually a

July 1, 2022 England

A piss-easy way to carve out extra time for each women’s Test match

2 minute read England’s men’s team are halfway through playing two Tests in two weeks against different opponents. England’s women’s team have a full year to wait until their next Test against anyone. The comparisons are easy, jarring and awful. The New Zealand/India fortnight is only the middle back-to-back for the men after

June 29, 2022 Uncategorized

A cold Sciver, a handy Kapp and Alice Davidson-Richards

2 minute read Remember when being five down for not many runs was a bad thing? Whatever happened to that? Two weeks ago, England’s men’s team were 93-4 in pursuit of 299 to win. Somewhere around a minute later, they’d won the match – in large part thanks to Jonny Bairstow, who was

June 27, 2022 England / New Zealand

Oh sure, Daryl Mitchell and Jonny Bairstow are batting really well right now, but…

2 minute read Jonny Bairstow has worked out that he can score twice as many runs simply by doubling his strike-rate. Daryl Mitchell has realised he’ll probably keep hold of his Test place if he scores a hundred in every single match. But what do these developments actually prove? Because yeah, sure, Jonny

June 27, 2022 England / New Zealand

Stokes and McCullum have the Jack Leach they created

2 minute read If you’re attentive and possessed of a decent memory, you’ll clock that the headline above is a very obvious reference to our December article, Root and Silverwood have the Jack Leach they created. There’s a contrast in man management here and if you read that article again, you’ll easily see