< 1 minute readWith his Ming the Merciless collar and his mercilessly minging face, Peter Siddle barrelled in and dismissed Alastair Cook, Matt Prior and Stuart Broad in successive balls. We got through the experience by pretending it was a cartoon. Siddle looks like a cartoon character somehow.
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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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Twitter coverage of day one of the Ashes
< 1 minute readIf anyone is staying up for day one of the Ashes tonight, we’ll be covering all the important stuff via Twitter. Here is a list of our intended topics: What we’re eating What we’re drinking Why the world’s sudden, wrong-headed obsession with naps is sickening If there is anything else
Continue readingChecking the scorecard in the morning
< 1 minute readThe Ashes starts at midnight and Bert has a problem. He’s got work, so can’t stay up and he dreads being confronted with an end of play scorecard in the morning. He describes how you are introduced to disaster gradually while watching live. “By the time 113 arrives, eight down,
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< 1 minute readUnsure how to approach opening the bowling in the Ashes? Simply consult ‘the tin’. “Jimmy does what it says on the tin – he swings it both ways at pace with the new ball.” – Peter Moores The tin is clearly very wise.
Continue readingCameras in the Australia dressing room?
< 1 minute readThat is what’s being suggested by Australia’s Channel Nine, who clearly have no regard for people’s desire to keep their dinner down. Even Peter Siddle doesn’t want to see Peter Siddle in his undercrackers. The thought of Simon Katich visibly confirming all jockstrap contents are fully contained sends a shiver
Continue readingAshes contradictions and how we think the series might pan out
< 1 minute readWe have written a piece for Cricinfo about how we are massively pessimistic about England’s chances no matter what the evidence in front of us. We have also said that England will win 3-2 over at World Cricket Watch. The truth is that we are pessimistic by default, but hate
Continue readingNathan Hauritz gets the boot | Australian selectors and spinners
2 minute readWe wrote about how Australia’s selectors don’t know what they’re doing last week. Nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to spin bowlers. Spoilt by Warne and MacGill for so long, there seems to be a ‘grass is greener’ philosophy, even when the grass in manifestly not greener,
Continue readingKing Cricket T-shirts and other stuff
2 minute readCricket T-shirts on Amazon We’ve made some T-shirts. Maybe you could buy some out of pity. Here is a yellow one. Coloured T-shirts are £17.95. Here is a ‘ringer’ T-shirt. Ringer T-shirts are £18.50. The grey and black ringer T-shirt is the one we bought to test the quality. We
Continue readingIs the lead-up to the Ashes the best bit?
< 1 minute readWe sometimes wonder, because in a way, it’s when Test cricket’s shown at its best. No-one’s actually playing, but the fact that we still have so much to talk about despite that highlights what makes Test cricket better than every other sport. Even luge. Will the humidity in Brisbane aid
Continue readingSomeone somewhere is under our influence
< 1 minute readWe don’t know who it is, but we’d quite like to hear from them. AskMen has named King Cricket one of the 10 most influential cricket blogs. Make of that what you will. We don’t know how we’re influencing people. Maybe we’re responsible for the age of apathy.
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