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November 12, 2020 India

Let’s find out exactly what went on at Chennai Super Kings this season

3 minute readChennai Super Kings (CSK) had a well-publicised very terrible IPL season. It’s interesting to see how they dealt with that. CSK hold the records for most appearances in the play-offs (ten) and final (eight), but this year they were just about the worst team in the competition. This also makes

November 10, 2020 India

Two great things Rohit Sharma did in the IPL final

2 minute readThe first and most important thing to acknowledge here is that we accurately predicted this result. We accurately predicted who would win the IPL using Ken Nordine’s word jazz album ‘Colors’. Who needs complex data analysis which results in the groan-inducing use of the word ‘impactful’ when you could instead

November 9, 2020 Regulars

A ‘totemistic’ cricket bat in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. (In fact we actively encourage it – we don’t get anywhere near enough of those ones.) The sight of a rock band manager.

November 6, 2020 Extras

90s XI v Now XI, day 5: Finally, a result…

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day four. And here’s the match situation at the start of day five: The Now XI need 318 to win. The 90s XI

November 5, 2020 Extras

90s XI v Now XI, day 4: They’ll try and chase down any target nowadays

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day three. Here’s the match situation. The 90s XI leads by 264 runs with nine second innings wickets in hand. We’re not a

November 4, 2020 Extras

90s XI v Now XI, day 3: Vintage pace attack has its say

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day two went like this. Here’s the match situation. No comment from us on any of this because we’re completely impartial. It’s going to be a pivotal

November 3, 2020 Extras

90s XI v Now XI, day 2: Match shaped by surprise early spin

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day one was fairly stupid in that Nathan Lyon took four wickets. No matter which team you’re supporting, let’s hope that’s the end of that sort of

November 2, 2020 Extras

90s XI v Now XI, day 1: Slow pitch mars opening day

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Let’s start with teams and stats. Partly because we imagine you want to pore over the averages, but mainly because there’s a 12th man joke we want

October 30, 2020 India

Ravindra Jadeja won a match by hitting the last two balls for six – which was his best shot?

2 minute readIf we could just ruin the ending of the sort-of-okay action film Braven for you, it climaxes with Jason Momoa throwing himself and the bad guy over a cliff but cleverly snagging his own foot in a bear trap tied to a tree so he doesn’t fall. That’s the kind of death-or-glory,

October 28, 2020 Australia / Features

Which Australia player was least happy about rewatching their Headingley 2019 nightmare?

3 minute readThe day after Ben Stokes and Jack Leach at Headingley in 2019, Australia coach Justin Langer forced his players to watch the footage. Thanks to Amazon’s documentary, The Test, we can see how that went down. It did not go down very well. Who was least happy about it? Cricket