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July 23, 2009 County cricket

One Twenty20 competition in county cricket next season

< 1 minute readThe England and Wales Cricket Board have done the right thing. We can stop posting excrement to them now. We’re not going to. But theoretically, we could stop. We could stop phoning them up and screaming ‘TURMOIL’ in a demon voice when someone answers as well, but this is very

July 23, 2009 England

Ian Bell for England – good or bad?

< 1 minute readKnowing our depth of feeling about Ian Bell, you must be desperate to read how we’re going to cover the news that he’s likely to replace Kevin Pietersen for the rest of the Ashes. It’s heated debate like what follows that makes the cricket world tick. Angry that Ian Bell’s

July 22, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 2009 review

3 minute readHow’s it work then? You captain/coach either a county side, an international side or both. You train your players, select your team, make your bowling changes, tell them where to bowl, position your field, gauge how much to attack with the bat, decide when to take the new ball –

July 22, 2009 England

The website is moving in a bold new direction

< 1 minute readYou’ve all no doubt noticed that the quality of our writing’s been pretty mediocre over the last few weeks. Maybe it’s the pressure of covering the Ashes. Who knows? Whatever it is, we’ve decided it’s a time for decisive action. KingCricket.co.uk needs a kick up the arse and how do

July 21, 2009 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 2009 free download

< 1 minute readYou can download the latest version of International Cricket Captain for free here. It’s a two day trial version, but you can get a code after that and play the full version. Or you can buy it from Amazon for just £9.50. Initial impressions are that changes are minimal, but

July 21, 2009 Uncategorised

How to write an Ashes blog | part three

< 1 minute readWelcome to part three of our informative series of posts about how to run a cricket blog during the Ashes. For our third lesson, we’d like to stress to you just how important it is to use the right equipment. You should type on a keyboard, have your words appear

July 20, 2009 England

Andrew Flintoff – do England need him?

< 1 minute readWe wrote a post about whether England needed Andrew Flintoff, but we’ve deleted it. The gist was: Bifidus digestivum: do we need it? Companies with ‘solutions’ in their name: do we need them? Andrew Flintoff: do we need him? After watching him clatter helmets, wedge in yorkers and shatter stumps

July 20, 2009 Australia / England

The Andrew Strauss catch of Phil Hughes

< 1 minute readPhil Hughes edged a Flintoff delivery to the slips. Andrew Strauss scooped it up, but did it graze the turf? The umpires didn’t refer it, but if they had have done, Hughes would certainly have been given not out. The heart bleeds. The Australian view is that Hughes would definitely

July 19, 2009 Australia

Watching Ricky Ponting flip out

< 1 minute readRicky Ponting always reminds us of the spoilt youngest daughter in a story about an upper class family set in the Fifties. She’s short, ridiculously spoilt and on the rare occasions she doesn’t get her way, she shrieks and shrieks and her facial expression becomes unavoidably punchable. One of the

July 17, 2009 Australia

Australia batting collapse and other good things

< 1 minute readThis morning, we said that England’s 425 wasn’t a good score against these Australian bowlers. We stand by that, but somewhat gleefully concede that it isn’t as bad a score as 156-8. With this and Steve Harmison taking 6-20 in the county championship, could things get any better? Rob Key’s

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Bangladesh also. Three Test series on at the same time! (Even if one of them is a 'series' of two.)

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Australia are managing their upper order’s workloads quite well.

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

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

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

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