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February 22, 2009 Pakistan / Sri Lanka

Thilan Samaraweera averages WAY more than 40

< 1 minute readEngland’s batsmen are very fond of telling anyone who’ll listen how they all average over 40, like it’s a benchmark for greatness. Maybe it was 10 years ago, but not now. Take Thilan Samaraweera for example. Here’s a very decent Test batsman, but by no means a great. In the

February 20, 2009 West Indies

Allen Stanford can be found through the simple method of conspicuously dropping some change

< 1 minute readYou probably saw yesterday that Mexican authorities had a mooch around one of Stanford’s private planes. There were some cheques in there which were allegedly related to the Gulf cartel, Mexico’s most violent gang. Now the media are hinting that Allen Stanford is involved in money laundering. As we said

February 19, 2009 England / West Indies

West Indies cricket not so flimsy

< 1 minute readSome people think that the West Indies are a team who buckle, like a belt. People think they fold, like a clean pair of trousers. But this West Indies team stood defiantly like a man who can’t find his belt or his trousers and doesn’t care about that fact. He

February 19, 2009 Uncategorised

A cricket bat in an ordinary place – twice

< 1 minute readWe’re getting closer, but we’re still not quite there. Send pictures of bats (or whatever) in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Joe says: “Here’s a picture of my cricket bat. It isn’t really in an unusual place – my hallway. It is, however, in two places at once, which I think

February 18, 2009 Extras

Richie Benaud to stop commentating

< 1 minute readApart from a brief, meaningless stint at the BBC during the World Cup, we haven’t had Richie Benaud on TV in the UK for a good few years, but it was somehow reassuring to know that he was still leaving his trademark massive great pauses during every day of every

February 18, 2009 England

Graeme Swann takes five Test wickets

< 1 minute readIt’s a big deal. Andrew Flintoff pretty much never manages it and he’s supposed to be the best bowler since the Bowlinator 9000 perfected the 95mph googly. We don’t know for sure whether anyone ever followed our instructions as to how to help Graeme Swann into the England side from

February 17, 2009 West Indies

Sir Allen Stanford charged with fraud

< 1 minute readIt’s funny when billionaires get told off. It was good that Sir Allen Stanford inadvertently instilled a sense of responsibility into the West Indies team through encouraging them to prepare properly for the cashtastic Super Series, but it’s also good that he’s being charged with fraud, because he’s a billionaire

February 17, 2009 England

Paul Collingwood

< 1 minute readIf you’re Paul Collingwood, you have to do a little bit more than other batsmen. He’s hit three hundreds in his last nine Test innings, each in a different country and each against a different attack. People will accept that he can stay in the side for another couple of

February 16, 2009 Regulars

Cricket bats that seem like they’re in unusual places

< 1 minute readBUT THEY’RE NOT! We should really have clarified this at the outset. We’d like you to send us pictures of real, actual, tangible cricket bats (or other cricket items) that are genuinely in unusual places. Send your pictures to king@kingcricket.co.uk Kate and Tom sent us this: We have rather a

February 16, 2009 England

England batsmen rack up team scores each

< 1 minute readAlastair Cook, 52. What a Herculean effort. Ordinarily, you’d need 11 men to get anywhere near a score like that. Owais Shah, 57. It’s a number beyond counting. We don’t know how many noughts 57 has, but it must be nearly a million. It’s the biggest number we’ve ever heard