< 1 minute readWe have never once seen someone quarantined without dire consequences for everyone on earth. It starts with vomiting. It ends with zombies or a flesh-eating virus. Maybe there’s an alien gestating inside Jesse Ryder as we speak – Lord knows, there’s room for one. It’s at times like this that
Continue reading2 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
Continue reading< 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
Continue reading< 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
Continue reading< 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
Continue reading2 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
Continue reading< 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
Continue reading< 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
Continue reading2 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
Continue reading< 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
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