< 1 minute readWe saw an article titled ‘Anderson wants to captain England’ and we immediately thought: ‘He’ll be lucky’. We thought this for the exact same reasons that Anderson himself thought it: “As a fast bowler and from the North, I suppose I’m very unlikely to get a look in.” This is
Continue reading< 1 minute readPerennially sulky, team-mate-slapping off-spinner, Harbhajan Singh, played some demented shots in hitting 49 off 31 balls in a heroic but doomed bid to win the first one-day international against Australia. Praveen Kumar was a handy sidekick, hitting 40 not out off 32. Harbhajan enjoys batting against Australia. If you’re due
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe knew this. Lee hit 48 off 31 balls, which went a long way towards helping New South Wales win the Champions League Twenty20. He took a couple of wickets too. We’re not sure that ‘wanting him in Australia’s Test side’ is really acceptable, so we’re not going to tell
Continue reading< 1 minute readBy all accounts the New Zealand players liked Andy Moles, who’s just resigned from his position as their coach. However, being liked isn’t really the whole job. It was fairly obvious that Moles was going to have to go after Daniel Vettori was asked whether the New Zealand players were
Continue reading< 1 minute readIn the second Champions League Twenty20 semi final, Trinidad and Tobago’s Dwayne Bravo took 0-46 off three well-spanked overs against Cape Cobras. No matter. He promptly hit 58 off 34 balls to help T&T waltz home. The Dwayne Bravo off-side thock made a couple of appearances. In many ways this
Continue reading< 1 minute readIf we let every wall of indifference we came up against stop us, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Admittedly we’re nowhere today, but we’ve got over more than our fair share of walls of indifference to get here. We’re sensing a wall of indifference from King Cricket readers
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe ECB Recreational XI are the 21st side involved in county cricket’s 40-over competition next year. They were needed because how else could you have three leagues of seven teams playing each other home and away with the winners of each league and the best second-placed side going through to
Continue reading2 minute readBert writes: WARNING – This match report contains some mention of the actual cricket. Trust me, it’s relevant. Those who are easily upset should discard this report now. Bert Jr and I returned to Old Trafford on day four. This time, we sat in the pavilion. At lunch some rather
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe ECB got all their figures wrong for next year’s 40-over tournament and found they were one team short. They’ve solved this by creating the ‘ECB Recreational XI’ – a provisional name for a side made up of cricketers without county contracts. Being as the ECB Recreational XI is a
Continue reading< 1 minute readThere’s a great interview with Lancashire’s new signing Stephen Moore on the ECB site. If you didn’t know anything about him, you’d come away thinking he was being unfairly kept out of the England side. It’s littered with comments about how he’s ‘ready’. One of our favourite bits is the
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