< 1 minute readA one-day international (ODI) rule change is nothing new. They fiddle with the regulations more often than Sir Jimmy fiddled with… no, that’s not an acceptable analogy. While rule changes are rarely in themselves interesting, they do just about become worthy of discussion when you think about the impact on
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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Cricket Snooker
< 1 minute readThe cricket news is still boring us, so here’s another way to improve a vastly inferior sport by making it slightly cricket-related. To play Cricket Snooker, you will need: A snooker table and balls A snooker bat/stick The kind of haircut seen on footballers about six years ago One of
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< 1 minute readEngland lost again. According to Cricinfo, the weather was ‘smoke’ and then ‘fog’. Now, onto the important stuff: encouraging cricket to invade other sports. We’ve just learnt about Twenty20 cricket darts and we heartily approve of it. If we had any kind of memory for this sort of stuff, we’d
Continue readingLet’s start as we mean to go on
< 1 minute readBy going away, not updating the site properly and then doing a half-arsed round-up post on a Monday morning, even though we don’t really know what happened because we weren’t actually paying any attention. Pakistan won a one-day series against India We did actually watch some of this. And by
Continue readingMichael Clarke: Lord Megachief of Gold 2012
3 minute readWe know. Sickening, isn’t it? If you don’t already know, Lord Megachief of Gold is the highest award in cricket. Each year, we name someone winner based on some stuff. After weighing up said stuff, it turned out Michael Clarke was the winner. We were less than impressed by this,
Continue readingNew Zealand opt to bat and then bowl on the first morning
< 1 minute readBrendon McCullum won the toss and elected to go home. Upon being told that the options were to bowl or bat, he opted for the latter. If it were a 44 all out kind of pitch, he’d have been vindicated. Maybe McCullum was in two minds about what to do,
Continue readingHow do you rate Mike Hussey?
< 1 minute readWhat happens to Mike Hussey’s nickname now? Can you call someone Mr Cricket if their job is to inspect construction projects to confirm they comply with building regulations? We’re assuming that’s the kind of thing Mike Hussey will do after retiring – something dull that will allow him to be
Continue readingCricket management games – a must for administrators
2 minute readIt’s December the 24th and we’re feeling festive, so we’re going to write about everyone’s favourite pastime – administration. In short, we have a demand: all potential cricket administrators should be forced to play four seasons on a cricket management game before they can be considered for any job. We
Continue readingIndia and England need to strive for more mediocrity
< 1 minute readEngland hit the new ball well and Jos Buttler played the final over brilliantly, but in between it was like they were running through pudding – plenty of effort, but nothing but the slowest, steadiest progress. With the ball, they mostly bowled wides and then occasionally rattled a batsman. In
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute readYou’d all forgotten about our feature ‘cricket bats/stuff in unusual places’ – UNTIL NOW! Ged sent us this: Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk
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