Guess where we’re not

< 1 minute read If you answered ‘Bangalore’, you’re wrong. If you answered ‘home’, well done. In fact, if you answered anything other than Bangalore, you’d also be right. Now that we think about it, we’re predicting a list of places where we aren’t in the comments. Knock yourselves out. Bangalore is fine, but

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Coming soon on King Cricket

< 1 minute read We’ve just left the country. Regular readers will know that this tends to signal an improvement in quality due to the fact that we rely on a lot of reader submissions while we’re away. In the next fortnight, we’ve got the annual sham that is our county cricket ‘ones to

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A toucan taking guard in a Test match

< 1 minute read If you want to hear our latest failed attempt to get our words out without laughing, listen to Andy Zaltzman’s World Cricket Podcast. It’s a war we’ll always wage, but will seemingly never win. This week’s highlight that was left on the cutting room floor was Andy going to answer

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Growing our brand in other territories

< 1 minute read We’ve spoken to the King Cricket marketing department and they assure us that Sundays, when no-one’s using the internet, are the best days to have your articles appear on Cricinfo. They’re pretty sure it doesn’t mean that Cricinfo think you’re their worst writer. We’ve done a piece about the Royals

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2009: The year in cricket

2 minute read It’s got to be done. Brace yourself for some links. Maybe bookmark the page for later but never actually read it. That’s what we’d do. January Peter Moores said Liberty X were derivative and Kevin Pietersen said that Moores was an inbred Maxonian obsessed with wheelie bin collections. England lost

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We went to the Sky offices

3 minute read We popped into the Sky offices last weekend to go and see some people from The Wisden Cricketer. Where are Sky’s offices? The address is the not-at-all-made-up-sounding 123 Buckingham Palace Road. We were confronted with a large glass wall with a small glass revolving door in the middle of it.

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