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  • May 20, 2025 King Cricket

    Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing

    6 minute readThose of us chipping away the verdigris have a pretty good idea what an early summer England v Zimbabwe Test

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  • January 30, 2025 King Cricket

    In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis Head

    7 minute readIs there a less showy attacking batter than Australia’s Travis Head? Australia picked a new opener not so long ago

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  • January 16, 2025 King Cricket

    Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowler

    5 minute readWe may or may not have caught up with Mark Wood to talk about his interest in wood. It’s a

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  • January 10, 2025 King Cricket

    23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024

    7 minute readIt was a hell of a year. Probably. Who can honestly remember 12 months’ worth of stuff, let alone assign

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  • January 8, 2025 King Cricket

    Lord Megachief of Gold 2024

    4 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over

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September 15, 2011 County cricket

Just a few more hours and then maybe we’ll all be safe

< 1 minute readWe’ve lived near Manchester Airport for most of our life and we have never seen a light in the sky quite like the one we saw last night. It was off-white, indistinct and almost certainly an alien spacecraft. Aliens have, quite understandably, come to earth to see whether Warwickshire can

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September 14, 2011 County cricket

We all have to wait for the County Championship to be decided

2 minute readWe ate some sauerkraut last night and there was something not quite right about it. We’ve not had the jar all that long and sauerkraut keeps, so it’s a bit weird. Most of you will have reached the obvious conclusion upon hearing this news. Clearly someone, somewhere, is so impatient

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September 12, 2011 County cricket

Today’s County Championship horror

< 1 minute readWe were driving home tonight and one side of the road was closed, quite possibly as a result of the earth being thrown off its axis a bit last week. There were so many people rushing home to catch the last three overs of the day that not all of

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September 11, 2011 County cricket

Not long now for the County Championship

< 1 minute readThe County Championship will end this week, just so long as the world hasn’t ended before then. The excitement is ripping our reality apart at the seams. When we got up this morning, we weren’t at all surprised to find that our jumper had fallen off the back of a

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September 9, 2011 County cricket

Okay, we don’t want you to be alarmed but…

< 1 minute readWe made ourself a cup of tea this morning, we started drinking it and then we went upstairs for a bit. When we came back down, the mug was empty. No-one else was in the house. We know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say that we were

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September 8, 2011 County cricket

County Championship latest – raised voices outside

< 1 minute readWe’re committed to documenting the effects of the climax of the County Championship, but we’re really starting to fear for our life now. Last night, we heard screaming outside our house. It was these two girls and they were having a MAJOR disagreement. They were so shrieky, we could only

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September 7, 2011 County cricket

The County Championship – now it’s a crisis

< 1 minute readOkay, we don’t want you to worry, but things are really getting out of hand now. The nation is going FULLY MENTAL as we approach the climax of the County Championship. You’d better brace yourself, because the story that follows is pretty damn alarming. Okay, so we were buying a

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September 6, 2011 England / India

Were you doing something else when England played India at the Rose Bowl?

< 1 minute readMaybe you were pipe-cleaner modelling or carrying out wig maintenance. Here’s what you missed: Vinay Kumar seemingly wearing clogs MS Dhoni keeping without a hat on Alastair Cook slogging a single to cow corner off the back foot about 40 times

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September 6, 2011 County cricket

County Championship fever – more evidence

< 1 minute readWe took a walk alongside the canal last night. At one point, a barge went past and the guy at the tiller was clearly SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. He just had that air about him. With the next round of matches starting tomorrow, he was

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September 5, 2011 County cricket

The County Championship title race

< 1 minute readUp and down the country, people are SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. We were in the supermarket at the weekend and we saw this woman shopping with her kid. You could tell that she was super excited about the County Championship and wanted to make sure

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  1. Sam on Blue for Bob Day 2024, England v West Indies at Edgbaston – a match reportJune 9, 2025

    Tangentially topical clue from today’s Guardian cryptic crossword: Seabirds and golfer harassed former WI captain (8,6)

  2. King Cricket on Blue for Bob Day 2024, England v West Indies at Edgbaston – a match reportJune 9, 2025

    We are in 2025. This match report is from 2024. The West Indies are annual visitors at the minute.

  3. Bert Spock on Blue for Bob Day 2024, England v West Indies at Edgbaston – a match reportJune 9, 2025

    Which year are we in 2024 or 2025? This is sloppiness of the worst kind.

  4. Sam on Virat Kohli explains why the England v India Tests are already jostling the West Indies T20s aside (with help from Marlon Samuels)June 7, 2025

    I, too, will be attending next week’s ‘Shambles masquerading as a showpiece’. Planning to grab the ceremonial mace, run through…

  5. King Cricket on Virat Kohli explains why the England v India Tests are already jostling the West Indies T20s aside (with help from Marlon Samuels)June 7, 2025

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