< 1 minute readWe’re starting a new feature. It’s called Cricket Bats In Unusual Places. We want you to send in pictures of cricket bats in unusual places. Send them to king@kingcricket.co.uk It doesn’t have to be cricket bats – that’s just the name of the feature. It can be anything cricket-related, but
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ICL match report
2 minute readJrod writes: Like most people at 4pm on a Wednesday, I was watching the ICL. The Bangladeshi World ICL team were playing the Indian World ICL team. Battle of the titans. Mostly I was watching to see how many times the commentators forgot to mention their correct titles and just
Continue readingThanks for stopping our website from seizing up in our absence
< 1 minute readWe massively enjoyed reading about the cutting of dangling seatbelts by stalkers and the breaking of greenhouses with airborne gnomes on our return. We were also relieved to see that some of you took the trouble to point out news that we’d missed in the full knowledge that we weren’t
Continue readingAlways watch the ball
< 1 minute readOn no account stand six feet away from the stumps and watch the blimp instead. Canny bowlers will take advantage.
Continue readingAndrew Strauss miscomprehends Law 41.3
< 1 minute readThe batting side only gets five penalty runs added to their total when the ball hits a helmet belonging to the fielding side. You can’t just repeatedly play the ball into your own face and hope to win a match.
Continue readingStanford Twenty20 match report
2 minute readWe probably should have published this nearer the time when the whole undercutting of the PR hoopla via profound disinterest made more sense. Never mind. Just imagine that it’s Stanford week and you’re sick of it. Miriam writes: The big day started in a bit of a rush as we
Continue readingRicky Ponting’s match-fixing shame
< 1 minute read“So one thing I always do is I gotta run myself out early on – it’s much more fun being an Andrew Symonds or someone.” Don’t fear, people. Ponting is talking about playing Ricky Ponting Pressure Play on the PSP, which is known as Brian Lara Pressure Play in the
Continue readingCricket news can live without us
< 1 minute readWe’re going away for a week. We’ve written stuff to appear while we’re away, like usual. You can insult us in our absence, like usual. An occasional visitor can point out some major cricket news that we haven’t covered, like usual. And one of you can leave an insulting comment
Continue readingEngland v South Africa fourth Test match report
2 minute readPrice writes: I had taken the Monday off work to allow us to watch some Test Cricket at bargain bucket prices. My Cornish friend who lives in Wiltshire came up on the Sunday. We prayed for rain and the rain duly arrived. In celebration that we would get some play
Continue readingCat renounces indifference to cricket
< 1 minute readLemon Bella writes: StraussCat has been waiting for another chance to show how much he doesn’t care about English cricket. KP provided him with the perfect opportunity. This is StraussCat when he first heard the news that Pietersen had resigned. When I told him that the only viable candidate was
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