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October 17, 2022 Associates / Regulars

Slog of the Day: JJ Smit v Sri Lanka

2 minute readGiven that modern media coverage of T20 cricket tends to revolve around intelligent and enlightening dissection of complex data, we figure there’s a niche for celebrating one of the format’s more straightforward features: the slog. We get very irritated when people dismiss T20 as “just slogging” because there are strategies,

October 13, 2022 Australia / England

Shane Watson’s legendary front pad, the worst piece of cricket in Test history + more

< 1 minute readEpisode two of the 2013 Ridiculous Ashes has gone up this week. It focuses on the second Test, which England won by a long, long way going by conventional cricket metrics, but which featured a strong showing from the tourists in ridiculous terms. We’ve a couple of videos to share

October 12, 2022 Extras / Pakistan

Babar Azam attempts to beckon down a reluctant pterodactyl

2 minute readIt’s just off camera, hovering. We can reveal that shortly after this picture was taken, Babar successfully ‘landed’ the pterodactyl – a feat that was greeted with a soft ripple of applause from those in attendance. It’s a little-known fact, but Babar Azam is a keen pterodactyl wrangler in his

October 10, 2022 Match report

A 1982 ‘corridor cricket’ match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Herbert Ackgrass, the official cricket biographer of King Cricket reader

October 5, 2022 Australia / West Indies

Kyle Mayers is playing Brian Lara Cricket properly

2 minute readKyle Mayers really made an entrance. Since then he’s apparently been training with Codemasters. Short of inexplicably setting off for a run while the wicketkeeper stands at the stumps with the ball in his hands, it’s hard to envisage a more Brian Lara Cricket moment than the six he hit

October 5, 2022 Australia / England / Features

The 2013 Ridiculous Ashes

2 minute readWe do a podcast with Dan Liebke in which we revisit the funnier moments of historic Ashes series. It’s called The Ridiculous Ashes and the latest series, focusing on England’s memorable 2013 win, is now underway. Have a listen! (Or don’t, if you’re busy. It’s not going to be significantly

October 3, 2022 England / Pakistan

All downhill from here | a Pakistan v England T20 series recap

4 minute readA seven-match T20 series wouldn’t ordinarily be an appealing prospect, but the sheer novelty of England playing Pakistan in Pakistan never really wore off. Does this mean that seven-match limited overs series are a legitimate and appealing thing to schedule? Yes, absolutely. Provided you haven’t toured one of the major

September 29, 2022 County cricket

Relegation? Liam Norwell has no time for your ‘most likelys’ or your ‘probablys’. Liam Norwell has got nine wickets to take

< 1 minute readWarwickshire needed to defend 139 to stay in the first division of the County Championship. That’s not many runs. For some reason Liam Norwell felt it was plenty. Liam Norwell was right. 30-year-old Norwell probably wouldn’t mind a reduction in County Championship cricket as he’s always been one of those

September 28, 2022 County cricket

3 unanswered questions about Stevo Day as Darren Stevens leaves Kent

3 minute readIt was Stevo Day at Canterbury yesterday in honour of county legend, Darren Stevens, who is leaving Kent at the end of the season, even though he’s only 46 and in the prime of his life (or at the very least prime adjacent). We have some questions about this possibly

September 26, 2022 England / Pakistan

Haris Rauf has a look and no respect for physics

2 minute readHaris Rauf looks tired. Not sleepy tired. The kind of tired where you have no patience for anything. The kind of tired where if you say the wrong thing he will very quickly go from quiet and reserved to absolutely going off his head at you in a highly terrifying