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October 26, 2021 Afghanistan

Are we watching peak Afghanistan?

2 minute readHere’s an ostensibly exciting but actually very depressing thought: are we currently watching the greatest Afghanistan cricket team? If you enjoy hearing Alan Wilkins saying “goodness me, that’s gone a long way” then watch the highlights of Afghanistan’s innings against Scotland. There are some fairly amazing shots in there. It’s

October 24, 2021 Australia / Pakistan

Matthew Hayden’s extra words

2 minute readOne of the defining qualities of Matthew Hayden’s guff-talking is his habit of throwing in a load of additional words that add precisely nothing to what he is trying to say. We’re going to talk to you about three recent examples. Last time around – back when Hayden first took

October 21, 2021 England

Why Eoin Morgan should definitely stand in the way of a World Cup win

2 minute readWe’re gravely worried about Eoin Morgan. We’re worried he’s lost sight of the basics. Speaking to Sky Sports earlier this week, Morgan suggested that he would consider dropping himself if he couldn’t regain batting form. He did however also make a point of saying that he’d come out of every

October 20, 2021 Associates / News

Let’s catch up with the men’s T20 World Cup

3 minute readIf in January we decide to rank the months of 2021 according to how hard it was for us to pay attention to the wider world, it would be a very big surprise if October didn’t come out top. Illnesses have seemingly been queueing patiently for two years and are

October 19, 2021 Match report

An Owzthat match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. King Cricket reader Stuart writes… 2021. Another

October 15, 2021 County cricket / Uncategorized

County cricket says 2020 and 2021 didn’t happen

3 minute readYou can see where they’re coming from. But pretty sure they did. What we’re talking about here is of course the format of the 2022 County Championship. Nothing wrong with the format itself. (Oh no, wait, it’s gone back to being lopsided and ridiculous.) The (new) issue is how they’ve

October 13, 2021 West Indies

Feudwatch: Chris Gayle v Curtly Ambrose

2 minute readIs it at all possible that Chris Gayle is being just a tiny bit thin-skinned here? Maybe he’s secretly worried that Curtly Ambrose has a point. Curtly Ambrose isn’t sure Chris Gayle should automatically get a place in the West Indies’ first choice XI at the T20 World Cup. This

October 11, 2021 Australia / England

We’ll be talking about England’s “supreme accuracy” a lot when the wheels come off during the Ashes

2 minute readHe couldn’t leave it at mere “accuracy,” could he? Chris Silverwood had to talk up the England bowling attack’s “supreme accuracy” when announcing the 2021-22 Ashes squad. “Here you go, everyone. Each of you take a stick. You’ll need these to beat us with in a couple of months’ time.”

October 8, 2021 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton – book review

2 minute readWe don’t often review cricket books these days because reading about cricket is not generally what we want to do once we’ve finished reading about cricket for the day. King Cricket reader Ged Ladd read one though and he sent us a review. Ged writes… I don’t normally read cricket

October 6, 2021 England / Features / India / New Zealand

12 England things that happened in the 2021 summer – several of which you’ve almost certainly already forgotten about

5 minute readEngland played a bunch of cricket matches in the summer of 2021. We’ve got this mad idea that if we pull together a load of the moments that caught our attention, it will somehow give a sense of what the entire season was about. Let’s see, shall we? So much

Stranger things have happened. This is English cricket after all. You might come to Rew the day you wrote this…

We keep wilfully suppressing the urge to write more equivocally on this. But yeah, that would be a corker.

To be fair to the ECB, they also haven't been averse to picking Second XI Somerset players over the first-teamers.

England now have the opportunity to do the funniest, funniest, funniest thing possible and pick Zak Crawley again.

It has to be said that those who suffer the neck-breathing are presumably the least likely to willingly open the…

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing