2 minute readHave you tried to read summat while at a cricket match? Let us know how it went at king@kingcricket.co.uk Ged Ladd writes… The play Biography by Max Frisch was top of my reading pile for Day Three of the first Lord’s test of the 2021 summer, which I had planned/booked
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The 2009 Ridiculous Ashes
2 minute readWe’re doing another series of The Ridiculous Ashes, the podcast we do with Dan Liebke in which we revisit the funnier moments of historic Ashes series and decide which side made the more significant comedy contribution. A few people have previously been put off by the fact that Series 1
Continue readingAn Owzthat 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. King Cricket reader Stuart writes… 2021. Another
Continue readingThe Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton – book review
2 minute readWe don’t often review cricket books these days because reading about cricket is not generally what we want to do once we’ve finished reading about cricket for the day. King Cricket reader Ged Ladd read one though and he sent us a review. Ged writes… I don’t normally read cricket
Continue readingA cricket bat in the Pearl’s Peril hidden object game
2 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. Jayne with a Y spotted this cricket bat in the Pearl’s Peril hidden object game. “The ridiculous English language description is ‘fungo bat’
Continue reading“Cricket” in an unusual place
< 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. (In fact please, please, please do. No-one sends us any of those and they’re our favourite ones.) Daisy and Ged jointly write… We
Continue readingA report from the first day of the Hundred at the Oval
4 minute readThis is our second match report from the inaugural season of the Hundred. Here’s the first. King Cricket match reports focus on what it was like to be at the game – not the match itself. Miriam writes… The afternoon started off slightly stressfully because my husband had a meeting
Continue readingA report from the first day of the Hundred at Lord’s
3 minute readThis is the first of two match reports from the inaugural season of the Hundred. Here’s the second one. King Cricket match reports focus on what it was like to be at the game – not the match itself. Regular King Cricket contributor, Ged Ladd, writes… Daisy and I resolved
Continue readingWhalley Range U10s v Stretford U10s. Forget about The Hundred – how’s this for a format? (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. King Cricket reader Stuart writes… If The
Continue readingRidiculous Michael Clarke
< 1 minute readWe’ve done a special Ridiculous Ashes podcast about Michael Clarke stemming from our coverage of the 2013/14 series. We got writer, broadcaster and podcaster Adam Collins on to help us because he knows more about Michael Clarke than we do. We never really ‘got’ Michael Clarke. The thing that baffled
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