< 1 minute readThis probably doesn’t warrant an update all of its own and it probably doesn’t need saying, but if England were touring Pakistan and Karachi had been attacked, the Tests would be more off than last year’s milk in the midday sun. We’re not saying that England should be touring. We’re
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The IPL has been of less use than an entire career playing in India
< 1 minute readSo, having lost an overlong four match one-day series, England are now one down in the subsequent three match series. That’s what’s happening, right? Recently we’ve read a few things about England being left behind in one-day cricket. This rather insinuates that they’ve caught sight of the peloton at some
Continue readingStuart Broad’s hair
< 1 minute readStuart Broad appears to have been to a barber’s in India. We’ve deduced this by the fact that he’s now got a nice, sensible side-parting, where before he had an effete, highlighted mullet. If you go to a barber’s in India, you can ask for what you like, but more
Continue readingDo the Pietersen
< 1 minute readAnd then we realised that we didn’t have to write about England one-day internationals if we didn’t want to. We could just publish pictures like the one on the right instead. It’s a new dance craze. We’re calling it ‘the Pietersen’. It’s like normal dancing, only quite miraculously it’s even
Continue readingYuvraj Singh ups his IPL price
< 1 minute readThis was England’s 500th one-day international. It was Yuvraj Singh’s 219th. Yuvraj is 26. Once again Yuvraj hit a hundred. This time, he also took four wickets. We’re not sure it would make a huge amount of difference, but we’re inclined to agree with everyone else in the entire world
Continue readingEngland to show aggression in everything they do
< 1 minute read“We thought we were a bit tentative in the way we played and could have been more aggressive in everything we did.” So says Peter Moores. He’s right. England need to show more aggression in absolutely everything they do. Look at the first one-day international for example. England showed little
Continue readingYuvraj Singh hits a hundred despite a knacked back
2 minute readHas any batsman every played a more destructive innings while wearing a girdle? We’ve always liked Yuvraj Singh, but he’s lost a little bit of lustre lately. This is largely thanks to Sky Sports’ ‘look at all the cricket we’ve got’ advert which starts with a big orchestral crescendo, before
Continue readingEngland will be mentally ready
< 1 minute readThere’s an awful lot of talk from Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen about England ‘getting their heads turned on’ and being ‘mentally in the right place’ for this one-day series. We’re a bit worried that at some point they’ll go overboard with the mental side and will forget about being
Continue readingEngland batsmen make no runs – just like in 2006
< 1 minute readToday’s warm-up between England and a random selection of people who live in Mumbai was quite a moment for us here at King Cricket, because England’s last tour of India coincided with the site’s sloppy, gelatinous birth. History repeated itself in more ways than one. During England’s 2006 tour, Matthew
Continue readingIan Botham says England will win the Ashes
< 1 minute readIan Botham’s been doing his bluff overconfidence thing again: “What I’ve seen so far, I don’t see as too much of a threat and if England’s bowlers stay fit then they’ll win the series.” This is why Ian Botham was a brilliant cricketer. He lets a few facts seep in,
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