King Cricket

November 21, 2022 Regulars

A cricket bat in a fishing programme

3 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. You are more than free – indeed you are actively encouraged – to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Send more of those ones please. If you’ve never seen Mortimer & Whitehouse:

November 16, 2022 Australia / England

The Test match that Simon Kerrigan and James Faulkner played

< 1 minute readNow that we’re in one of those occasional narrow windows when a World Cup isn’t taking place, it seems a good time to point you all towards the final episode of our podcast series about the 2013 Ashes. The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes comes to a climax with what will, for

November 14, 2022 Australia / England

So is everyone super-psyched about this Australia v England ODI series then?

2 minute readAn Australia v England series starts this week. The old rivalry. Always an edge to it, bragging rights, a chance to make some sort of statement, yadda, yadda, yadda… The 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off features one of the all-time great film quotes. This is of course

November 13, 2022 England / Pakistan

Adil Rashid’s T20 World Cup final wicket maiden

2 minute readEveryone remembers the big over when a T20 batter lays into a bowler and the boundaries flow like overpriced beer in a cricket ground. What’s less obvious, but arguably more influential, is when an innings goes clanking off the rails with a trickle of downbeat gropes at thin air. Adil

November 11, 2022 England / Pakistan

The T20 World Cup final is on Channel 4 on Sunday and possibly also Monday

< 1 minute readUK readers are probably already aware of this, but just in case you’re not: Sky Sports have again done the surprisingly decent thing of agreeing to share the broadcast of England v Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final with Channel 4. The match is due to start at 8am

November 10, 2022 England / India

Adil Rashid, India’s top three and a premature death

3 minute readThey talk a lot about ‘the death’ in T20 cricket. We’re not sure it’s an appropriate label for the latter stages of India’s T20 World Cup semi-final innings. They were already on life support after six overs and rigor mortis had pretty much set in by the end of the

November 9, 2022 New Zealand / Pakistan

Slog of the Day: Kane Williamson v Pakistan

2 minute readKane Williamson is a weird-arsed T20 player. He’s been one of the best batters in the world for years, but quite often seems to serve less as a run-scorer and more as a comfort blanket. Williamson made 40 off 40 balls when New Zealand failed to chase 180 against England

November 6, 2022 Pakistan / South Africa

South Africa should have seen this coming as soon as Pakistan lost their first two games

2 minute readCricket has lots of laws, but also a couple of general rules. One rule is that Pakistan will generally defy expectations – whether high or low. Another is that South Africa will generally contrive a way of exiting world tournaments when everything seemed to be going swimmingly for them. South

November 4, 2022 Afghanistan / Australia

Did you see… David Warner’s suicidal switch-prod?

2 minute read‘David Warner b Naveen-ul-Haq’ really doesn’t do it justice. You need to see it. Or at least have it described to you alongside a handful of stills. The switch hit is right up there with cricket’s most hubristic shots. It arguably even surpasses the quite-possibly-smashing-it-straight-into-your-own-face peacocking of the ramp shot.

November 2, 2022 England

Hyperbole Watch: The Greatest Game on Sky Sports

4 minute readWhat’s Sky’s upcoming documentary, The Greatest Game, about then? It should be obvious really, shouldn’t it? You know, with a title like that. The Greatest Game. Let’s look for some clues. Well, it’s a moodily-lit Ben Stokes kinda documentary. But that doesn’t really pinpoint things. Now here is looking thoughtful-yet-resolute.