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November 14, 2008 England / India

Yuvraj Singh hits a hundred despite a knacked back

2 minute readHas any batsman every played a more destructive innings while wearing a girdle? We’ve always liked Yuvraj Singh, but he’s lost a little bit of lustre lately. This is largely thanks to Sky Sports’ ‘look at all the cricket we’ve got’ advert which starts with a big orchestral crescendo, before

November 14, 2008 England

England will be mentally ready

< 1 minute readThere’s an awful lot of talk from Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen about England ‘getting their heads turned on’ and being ‘mentally in the right place’ for this one-day series. We’re a bit worried that at some point they’ll go overboard with the mental side and will forget about being

November 13, 2008 Regulars

Tribble being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

< 1 minute readCully, from New Zealand, writes: Here is my cat, Tribble, being conspicuously indifferent to cricket. Could she be bothered to watch the second Test between India and Australia? Could she even be bothered to watch us scrape a painful win against Bangladesh? Could she heck. Once she’d emptied the fridge

November 12, 2008 Pakistan

Kamran Akmal slogs some sixes

< 1 minute readWe’re worried about Pakistan. No-one will tour there and they’re hardly playing. We don’t want their side to deteriorate. If Pakistan become an unofficial second tier nation, cricket will lose its most wilfully unpredictable team. Pakistan have banned their best batsman and had their best bowler banned for them. You

November 12, 2008 Match report

England v Stanford Superstars match report

2 minute readThere’s been a slight case of queue-jumpery here and we apologise. But it is with good reason. Several of you said that you wouldn’t be contributing Stanford match reports because you weren’t watching the match. We asked for Stanford match reports for a reason. We want to document true cricket

November 11, 2008 England / India

England batsmen make no runs – just like in 2006

< 1 minute readToday’s warm-up between England and a random selection of people who live in Mumbai was quite a moment for us here at King Cricket, because England’s last tour of India coincided with the site’s sloppy, gelatinous birth. History repeated itself in more ways than one. During England’s 2006 tour, Matthew

November 11, 2008 Australia / India

Australia vastly inferior to India who are better than everyone

< 1 minute readAfter winning successive Test series against West Indies, South Africa, South Africa again, Bangladesh, England, Sri Lanka, India and West Indies, Australia finally lost away to India and are now ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING at cricket. India’s recent run of losing a series against Australia, drawing one against South Africa, losing one

November 10, 2008 India

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has as many Test hundreds as Anil Kumble

2 minute readAnil Kumble hit one Test hundred. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has also hit one. It was 148 against Pakistan. Dhoni should really address that. He’s had a good series with the bat, hitting four fifties, but a hundred or two wouldn’t go amiss. When Mahendra Dhoni first appeared and started slogging

November 9, 2008 Australia / India

Harbhajan Singh batting against Australia

< 1 minute readAs often as not this year, Harbhajan Singh has hit a fifty against Australia. Quite literally. He’s had eight innings against them and hit four of the six fifties he’s hit in his entire Test career. He is an improved batsman, but Australia won’t be impressed by that. We’re not

November 7, 2008 Australia / England

Ian Botham says England will win the Ashes

< 1 minute readIan Botham’s been doing his bluff overconfidence thing again: “What I’ve seen so far, I don’t see as too much of a threat and if England’s bowlers stay fit then they’ll win the series.” This is why Ian Botham was a brilliant cricketer. He lets a few facts seep in,