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May 11, 2020 Australia / England

1990s Ashes Rematch: England bat first on day 1

4 minute readLast month we pitted a 90s England XI against a 90s Australia XI using International Cricket Captain’s ‘All Time Greats’ mode and the Aussies won. This is the rematch Down Under. A quick recap. These teams are not 1990s best XIs. They are 1990s-est XIs. Here’s our workings-out. In short,

The 1990s-est Ashes Rematch Down Under

5 minute readLast month we ran The 1990s-est Ashes, an exhibition match between a 1990s England Test XI and a 1990s Australia Test XI played out using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. It was both a nail-biter and also a sizeable defeat for England. Michael Atherton’s men were just minutes from securing

May 6, 2020 Match report

This guy paid £50 for a £300 ticket to go and see England v South Africa at the Oval with some strangers – a 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. William went to England v South Africa

May 6, 2020 Australia / Features

Shane Warne says we were created by aliens – but which ones?

3 minute readThe frustrating thing about reality TV programmes is that when someone says something interesting, there’s no-one there to ask the obvious follow-up questions. When he appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in 2016, Shane Warne expressed his belief that humans, “couldn’t do” the pyramids. “You couldn’t

May 4, 2020 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Smashtastic Cricket review | Android and iPhone

4 minute readPro: Quick and intuitive Pro: Career mode offers longer lifespan Pro: Textbook videogame player names Con: Insufficient character limit for puerile player names Con: Four-season span of free version When we asked about lockdown cricket entertainment the other day, AP Webster mentioned Smashtastic Cricket. We didn’t know Smashtastic Cricket, so

May 2, 2020 Extras / Features

Rating and reviewing the wrong-handed bowling of three Sky Sports commentators

2 minute readThe number one highlight of a friend’s stag-do was when we all took it in turns to throw stones into the sea using our ‘other’ arm. (Which is to say the non-doing arm – the left one for us.) When throwing with your wrong arm, the more effort you put

May 1, 2020 Regulars

A cricket jumper on Donald Trump

< 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. Commander Brian Sausage got in touch with us to draw our attention to this. It’s a creepy painting of Donald Trump in a

April 29, 2020 Features

Which Test cricketer was the biggest burden to their side?

6 minute readNot every cricketer is great, or good, or useful. This begs a question. Who routinely contributed the least to their team? Which Test cricketer was the biggest burden? Back in November, we took a look at the worst Test bowling averages of all time. As you might imagine, quite a

April 28, 2020 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

< 1 minute readHave you tried to read summat while at a cricket match? Let us know how it went at king@kingcricket.co.uk Edwardian writes: This was the day Alastair Cook scored his final Test century. I was at Lord’s to watch Middlesex play Kent and also to meet up with regular King Cricket

April 25, 2020 Extras

Live cricket’s great and all – but so’s all this stuff

3 minute readA few days ago, we mentioned on Twitter that we aren’t likely to run out of things to write about for as long as the whole history of Test cricket has still happened. You may have noticed we’ve been doing a few more features of late and that’s just fine