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August 31, 2023 County cricket

Let’s have a 2023 County Championship catch-up

3 minute readLike many people, we haven’t paid much attention to the County Championship since the first batch of matches finished in May. This was not unexpected. It was, in fact, the plan – as drawn out in our 2023 “essentials” calendar. Back then, table-toppers Surrey had only played six games and

August 30, 2023 Match report

Rudimental at the Hundred finals (a match report)

3 minute readSend 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.) Incorrigible King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Daisy and I

August 28, 2023 County cricket

Did you see… Kate Cross’s deflect-o-run-out of Danni Wyatt?

3 minute readSouthern Brave’s Danni Wyatt played the most significant innings in the Hundred final. It ended the way all good limited overs innings should end – with a slightly chaotic run-out. Kate Cross isn’t exactly from Manchester. She played her formative cricket in Heywood, just a little way north of what

August 23, 2023 County cricket

The Hundred month is almost over already. This is why we never really got a toe-hold with it this year

3 minute readThe Hundred moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Do you know what type of person is very badly qualified to write about cricket scheduling? A cricket writer, that’s who. Anyone who writes about the sport will almost certainly

August 22, 2023 England

Is Ben Stokes definitely a better pick than Harry Brook in England’s World Cup squad?

3 minute readBen Stokes came out of one-day retirement and immediately got picked for England’s World Cup squad. Of course he did – he’s Ben Stokes. Except he’ll be playing only as a batter. While he’s obviously extremely good at batting and capable of innings few others are… is he definitely, definitely

August 18, 2023 Extras

Five reasons we miss Test cricket

5 minute readWe do enjoy limited overs games, because variety is one of cricket’s greatest strengths. However, the action’s all limited to one end of the cricket spectrum, so it offers less variety when ‘consumed’ in isolation. Test cricket has greater scope – a wider range of possibilities – and so that’s

August 16, 2023 Match report

Old Trafford pitch messaging (a match report)

3 minute readSend 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 writes… Last year, the Old Trafford test led to

August 14, 2023 County cricket / Match report

A new fan at the London Spirit v Southern Brave washout – a match report

2 minute readSend 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.) Irrepressible King Cricket match reporter Ged writes… I have known

August 10, 2023 England / Features / Uncategorized

Stuart Broad: Titan of Ridiculousness

6 minute readAnd so the greatest Test batter of all time has departed the game just four ducks short of Courtney Walsh’s all-time record with 39. To put that in context, the next highest tally by someone with a Test hundred to their name is Marvan Atapattu’s 22 – and that was

August 8, 2023 England / Extras

But what about The Alternative Test Cricket World Championship? Who holds that title?

2 minute readThe what now? Come on, you remember: The Alternative Test Cricket World Championship. We did two or three blog posts about it on a different domain back in 2006. It’s the one that’s decided like a boxing title, where you can only become champions by beating the current champions. That’s

I think it’s just batsmen not having the technical ability to defend. I’m not so sure someone like, say, Dravid…

That looked less like an “apply yourself” pitch and more like a “chance your arm” pitch for the batsmen. Two…

“That was great, but it’s not so much fun when it is all over so quickly”, said Daisy.

There will be an inquiry into the pitch, no doubt? God forbid that the batsmen actually have to apply themselves…

Good on the English. If NZ win one out of four tests next year there will e a parade

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

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