2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Herbert Ackgrass, the official cricket biographer of King Cricket reader
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2 minute readKyle Mayers really made an entrance. Since then he’s apparently been training with Codemasters. Short of inexplicably setting off for a run while the wicketkeeper stands at the stumps with the ball in his hands, it’s hard to envisage a more Brian Lara Cricket moment than the six he hit
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2 minute readWe do a podcast with Dan Liebke in which we revisit the funnier moments of historic Ashes series. It’s called The Ridiculous Ashes and the latest series, focusing on England’s memorable 2013 win, is now underway. Have a listen! (Or don’t, if you’re busy. It’s not going to be significantly
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4 minute readA seven-match T20 series wouldn’t ordinarily be an appealing prospect, but the sheer novelty of England playing Pakistan in Pakistan never really wore off. Does this mean that seven-match limited overs series are a legitimate and appealing thing to schedule? Yes, absolutely. Provided you haven’t toured one of the major
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< 1 minute readWarwickshire needed to defend 139 to stay in the first division of the County Championship. That’s not many runs. For some reason Liam Norwell felt it was plenty. Liam Norwell was right. 30-year-old Norwell probably wouldn’t mind a reduction in County Championship cricket as he’s always been one of those
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3 minute readIt was Stevo Day at Canterbury yesterday in honour of county legend, Darren Stevens, who is leaving Kent at the end of the season, even though he’s only 46 and in the prime of his life (or at the very least prime adjacent). We have some questions about this possibly
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2 minute readHaris Rauf looks tired. Not sleepy tired. The kind of tired where you have no patience for anything. The kind of tired where if you say the wrong thing he will very quickly go from quiet and reserved to absolutely going off his head at you in a highly terrifying
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2 minute readWell that came about abruptly. There we were settling in for a last couple of weeks of County Championship intrigue, only for Surrey to win the thing in 2.5 days. First Hampshire lost to Kent. “That session at the end of day one where we were bowled out in 18
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3 minute readRuns don’t win you a two-innings cricket match, but by Godfrey Evans, they sure as Shivnarine Chanderpaul help. The Surrey v Hampshire County Championship title run-in feels like it’s shed a bit of tension after Ollie Pope’s 136 and Hampshire’s 57 all out in the penultimate round of matches. We
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< 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. Seriously. We’ve nothing against contrivance. We actively encourage it, if anything. Apparently embracing the timekeeping habits of this website, Tom began writing to
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