County cricket / England

Adil Rashid is getting worse

< 1 minute readHow much worse? One worse. Having taken 6-77 in Worcestershire’s first innings, Adil Rashid could only manage 5-37 in their second innings. This grave loss of form is deeply worrying. Ben Stokes is getting better How much better? 125 better. Having scored 10 in Durham’s first innings, Ben Stokes then

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Extras

One-day internationals don’t matter

2 minute readThe World Cup matters – let’s clarify that first of all – but other one-day international (ODI) series don’t. That is a new, official King Cricket editorial stance. Why ODIs don’t matter Between squad rotation, experimentation, dead rubbers and lack of interest from fans and players, we no longer see

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Extras

Good news everybody…

< 1 minute readWe’re being insulted on Cricinfo again. Qasim has branded our latest piece “a staggeringly unfunny article”. You’ve got to love an article that’s so lacking in humour that not only are readers unmoved by it, they are actually blown away by the unfunniness. We meant to ask that this piece

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Regulars

Cover drive | Batting lessons

< 1 minute readAll save the clearest technician must rein themself in when essaying a cover drive, lest they founder betwixt active and passive. Wise words and worth remembering when attemping this shot for this is almost entirely wrong. Should a delivery pitch six inches short of overfull and a similar distance wide

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India

MS Dhoni is a big match player

< 1 minute readGautham Gambhir played very well, but MS Dhoni is unique. He wasn’t Lord Megachief of Gold for no reason. People talk about big match players all the time, but they often mislabel matches as being big when they’re no such thing. Genuine big matches are rare and genuine big match

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India

We’re supporting Zaheer Khan

< 1 minute readWe’re supporting India, but we’re struggling with that because we’ve got quite a big reservation. A win for India would, to some extent, be a victory for batting over bowling and we hate batsmen. For us, much of the joy of cricket is in the fall of wickets and we

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India / Sri Lanka

Tendulkar v Murali

< 1 minute readWe wrote about the various World Cup storylines during the quarter-finals. The stories of Tendulkar and Murali, two ageing greats, seem to be the strongest now, but that’s mostly due to hindsight. All the same, it makes for a good narrative. There’s also a minor subplot that no-one will care

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