< 1 minute read“Day one of the County Championship?” thought Adil Rashid. “I’ll have that.” So he did. Rashid has kicked off with 6-77 against Worcestershire. That’s called ‘being better than everyone else,’ that is. We recognise it well from all the millions of times we’ve been one small part of the ‘everyone
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County Championship players to watch in 2011
< 1 minute readCounty Championship only. First division only. We’re also lumping them all together in one post this year, because multiple posts feels like quite a big commitment. Adam Lyth, Yorkshire Our reasons for picking batsmen to watch are invariably the same: they’re young and we’ve got a general sense that they
Continue readingSteven Davies is out – gay cricketer number one
< 1 minute readBeing out in cricket is ordinarily a bad thing, but Steven Davies being out is actually quite positive, because he is the first openly homosexual professional cricketer. At times like this, you remember how backwards the world is – particularly the cricket world. It is 2011 and Steven Davies is
Continue readingChris Read meets Paul Allott
< 1 minute readBert sent us these, plus some other pictures and some text. We left out half the pictures and then changed one of the lines to make the whole thing more repetitive. This gives you some insight into our “style”. Chris Read’s day just gets better and better. Here he gets
Continue readingHow the ECB made its BIG DECISIONS about county cricket
< 1 minute readECB Bod: Right, okay. We’re here to sort out this mess that we call county cricket. First of all: what’s the problem? ECB Fella: Well it’s too much cricket, isn’t it? We’ve commissioned 15 studies, asked the players, asked the media, asked the fans, asked this guy with sticks in
Continue readingRob Key and “ha ha”-gate
< 1 minute readRob Key’s on Twitter now. We knew we had to make contact, but we were painfully aware that we’ve spent the last three or four years being mental about him on the internet. This made the situation a little awkward. We knew Rob had seen the greatest post of all
Continue readingRobert Key and his health and safety wisdom
< 1 minute readSarah Comma Canterbury sent us these, ‘hot off the camera card’. Ian Botham could learn a hell of a lot from this: Where Botham removed his helmet and opted for a low-visibility tabard, Rob Key has got everything right. Rob Key is better than Ian Botham in every conceivable way.
Continue readingNottinghamshire take the 2010 County Championship title
< 1 minute readBy the broad blade of Tavaré that was exciting. The County Championship title was decided just as it should be – by abject Lancastrian batting. Lancashire’s increasingly fragile top order allowed Nottinghamshire to record a bowling bonus point just in the nick of time. Nottinghamshire’s rivals for the title, Somerset,
Continue readingYorkshire out of County Championship race
< 1 minute readBeard of Amla! It is ABSOLUTELY going off out there in the County Championship. Yorkshire have lost. Repeat, Yorkshire have lost. This means that Yorkshire are out of the running and it’s now going to be either Somerset or Nottinghamshire who take the title. It’s like Ali v Foreman, only
Continue readingLast day of the County Championship 2010
< 1 minute readEars of Agarkar! It is STILL going off out there in the County Championship. Despite a profound lack of interest among King Cricket readers and an equally profound resistance to the phrase ‘it’s all going off out there’ we are going to continue with our coverage of the climax of
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