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May 12, 2023 Match report

A right royal stand off – a 2022 England v New Zealand match report

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.) Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Daisy had especially

May 3, 2023 Match report

Potential converts and marshmallows – a Middlesex v Kent match report

3 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.) Balladeer writes… I haven’t actually been to the cricket that

April 15, 2023 Regulars

A cricketing effigy in an unexpected place

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. It is more than okay to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself if you want. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Deep within Standard Chartered Bank’s City of London offices, while

March 17, 2023 Extras

Cricket Wordles: Crickdle, Crickle, Nurdle and Stumple

2 minute readWordle has inspired a whole slew of similar puzzle games. Here are four cricket-themed ones we’ve tried: Crickdle, Crickle, Nurdle and Stumple. Crickdle Crickdle’s creator, a British student called Ayush, emailed us about this one. It’s a player of the match guessing game where you’re given the match result and

March 15, 2023 Extras

The BBC wants you to vote against us

2 minute readThe BBC again finds itself mired in conflict after asking people to vote for its cricket podcasts instead of our one. We’re on the shortlist too, you know. How about a bit of balance and fairness? It’s been a turbulent time for the Beeb. First the leader of the world’s

March 7, 2023 Regulars

A fox being conspicuously indifferent to Being Geoffrey Boycott

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Daisy writes… Ged and I went to a supper and talk at Lord’s about the book Being Geoffrey Boycott. Ged has written up the evening. On arrival, when we first looked out

January 30, 2023 Extras

The 2023 King Cricket Essentials Calendar

2 minute readIf those who run cricket can’t make the cricket calendar comprehensible, we’ll just have to do it ourself. Below you’ll find a month-by-month guide to the series and tournaments we’ll most likely be focusing on throughout this year. Setting it out in writing is as much for us as it

January 25, 2023 Extras

But what has the Patreon crowdfunding campaign ever done for King Cricket?

6 minute readWe’re pretty happy with the last year’s Patreon-funded output. Hopefully our crowdfunding campaign doesn’t completely implode in 2023. A very quick recap. We run a Patreon campaign where readers can, if they want, pledge a monthly sum to help support the site. You can pretty much pledge whatever you want

January 16, 2023 Extras

In search of a T20 shallowness metric: Is there a quick and easy way to judge the quality of a franchise match?

5 minute readThere are an awful lot of T20 franchise leagues these days. It’s hard to keep up. If you want to work out whether a new one is worth following, the absolute last thing you’d want to do is actually watch a match. So is there a quicker and easier way

January 13, 2023 Match report

The government pilot post-social-distancing 2021 Edgbaston Test – a match report

3 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.) Ged Ladd submitted this match report what might be termed