2 minute read668 writes: I started at Newcastle station. “A day return to Seaton Carew, please” “Why do you want to go there?” the ticket guy quizzed me, with genuine amazement and some concern. “Umm, to watch some cricket.” “So you’re not taking a kayak ride then?” “No,” I said. “There is
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An eventful innings and some uneventful innings
< 1 minute readWe’ve covered both while whoring ourself out to other people this week. Kevin Pietersen’s blindingly haphazard knock over at the Wisden Cricketer Some earth-shatteringly tedious knocks over at Cricinfo The Cricinfo one features someone called MCG Gladlyaddled-Smeethington drinking brandy in the sixth tiffin break, if that makes the article sound
Continue readingFreddie Flintoff’s Powerplay Cricket – press release timing failure
< 1 minute read“Play as Freddie Flintoff and become an integral player for England in this fast moving, high scoring arcade cricket game.” That should perhaps read: “Play as Freddie Flintoff and engage in long, soul-destroying rehabilitation programmes that are ultimately unsuccessful. Slowly come to accept that your days as an international cricketer
Continue readingInternational Cricket Captain 2010 review
< 1 minute readThe 2010 version of International Cricket Captain is out. It’s a good game, but pretty similar to the 2009 version really. Our ICC 2009 review should tell you everything you need to know if you’ve never played the game before. Other than that, we want to voice a gripe. To
Continue readingStill not sure why we did that
< 1 minute readWe did our live review of International Cricket 2010 on Twitter. Ceci Masters kindly documented the review/mental breakdown in full and it can be seen here. If you want to keep tabs on our ongoing descent, you can follow us @TheKingsTweets. We probably won’t be doing another live review of
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< 1 minute readLast night, we did a live review of Codemasters’ new game International Cricket 2010 on Twitter. We played a Twenty20 match as Pakistan and basically got battered. Anyone interested in live Twitter reviews of cricket computer games can follow us again from about 7pm tonight when we’re going to have
Continue readingWe have a serious point to make
< 1 minute readThose of you who’ve only read this website for a couple of years or so might not be aware that this ever happens. Mostly we try and avoid it because people only end up giving us stick. Our point has been made over at the Wisden Cricketer, because for some
Continue readingA cricket bat joke – is this funny or not?
< 1 minute readWe’ve been having a discussion with someone about whether this is funny or not. If you have to explain a joke, it generally isn’t funny. But surely not in this instance. Surely. Bellingham and Smith is a cricket bat manufacturer. We’re of the belief that this is a new business
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< 1 minute readThen a chronic inability to spell people’s first names shouldn’t hold you back: “England cricketers Andrew Strauss, Alistair Cook and Eion Morgan put the Jaguar XJ through its paces” At least they got ‘Andrew’ right. One out of three isn’t too bad and the surnames are all spot-on. Good work.
Continue readingMiddlesex v Australians match report
3 minute readGed Ladd writes: I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability. I had met
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