< 1 minute readCricinfo is running an IPL quiz called Wait, which team does he play for? We can’t work out whether this is a joke about the inherently transient nature of many Twenty20 competitions or an acknowledgement that ever-changing squads are all part of the fun. We scored two out of ten,
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There’s a King Cricket County Championship fantasy league after all
< 1 minute readAs with so many things, we sort of half-floated the idea with no real enthusiasm and then someone else went ahead and sorted it out. Mike has set up The King Cricket CBA Cup within The Telegraph’s county fantasy league thing. CBA stands for ‘can’t be arsed’ to reflect the
Continue readingAs the IPL and County Championship loom into view, which fantasy cricket game is best?
2 minute readIf there’s one thing we like about fantasy cricket leagues, it’s eking out our few remaining fantasy points/doubloons over half a dozen all-but-unknown cricketers to complete our XI after going a bit overboard with our first two selections and an unsuccessful attempt to rein things in a bit with the
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the ‘is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend?’ edition
< 1 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend? Never particularly struck us as one. Why? Saw him interviewed on the news wearing shades and a
Continue readingCricket recipe: Ged Ladd’s “Home Of Cricket” Glazed Drunken Prawns
2 minute readKing Cricket was one of my guests the first time I cooked and served this dish. Although he praised the dish, KC also described the glaze as “less of a glaze, more of a gelatinous gloop”. Well I can assure you, King Cricket, my original attempt at Throdkin was gloopy,
Continue readingFree-to-air cricket debate is short-sighted in the internet age
2 minute readThere’s been a few headlines about the possibility of some free-to-air cricket off the back of the ECB’s proposed new T20 league. People get excited about this sort of thing, but the whole point of free-to-air is that it opens up a larger market, yet this is a form of
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the North v South edition
2 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Anything you want to know about this week’s North v South cricket matches? Is this real? Is it really North versus South? Are they trying
Continue readingBooks to read at the cricket – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2 minute readGed writes: This was a first for me in the matter of reading a novel while watching county cricket. In the past, at cricket, I have always gone for: factual books (usually on economics, psychology, ethics or some mixture of those things) plays journal articles and/or my general weekly reading
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute readIt’s been a while since we had a cricket thing in an unusual place – so long, in fact, that many of you won’t even know that it’s supposed to be a regular feature. Ged sent us the following photo and said only: “Sphere Of Influence By Gideon Haigh, spotted
Continue readingInnovative T20 scorecards – new ways to tell the story of a cricket match
3 minute readWe were talking T20 scorecards on Friday and this led to a discussion about whether the traditional form is actually fit for purpose. Our point was that in a T20 match, it’s not just ‘how many’ and ‘how quickly’ – it’s also about when runs are scored and when wickets
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