< 1 minute read We’re not entirely sure why someone would choose to stalk a cricketer other than Rob Key, but for some reason that’s precisely what Adam Carroll-Smith decided to do. He decided that he wanted to bowl a ball at Sachin Tendulkar, which is even more bizarre, because there are professional cricketers
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Winning the Ashes Down Under by Andrew Strauss with Simon Hughes
2 minute read One of our jobs is to read all the cricket news. As a result of this, cricket books covering recent events aren’t all that appealing to us. When we’re presented with familiar information, our brain tends to drift off and do something else, leaving our eyes to do the reading
Continue readingCrickileaks by Alan Tyers
< 1 minute read Do you know Alan Tyers’ work? You can probably make your own mind up about this book if you do. Crickileaks is what you would expect from him. The fake diary is Alan Tyers’ thing. He’s done them for Cricinfo and The Wisden Cricketer (now The Cricketer) many times before
Continue readingAshes 2010/2011 – The Inside Story | DVD review
3 minute read There are three ways you can approach this. There’s the documentary, the highlights and the box set, which is the first two sold together. We won’t review the highlights, because they’re pretty self explanatory, suffice to say that there are five DVDs and highlights of every day of the series.
Continue readingAshes 2011 by Gideon Haigh | book review
2 minute read If you spend much time reading about cricket, you will know Gideon Haigh. He is the cricket writer whose arse is most frequently kissed by other cricket writers. But why is this? Why is Gideon Haigh so highly regarded? Having just read Ashes 2011, the answer is fairly clear. He
Continue readingA cricket iPhone ‘app’
< 1 minute read “You want to know what time it is? There’s an app for that. You want to make a phone call? There’s an app for that. You want your iPhone to remain inactive unless someone phones or texts you? There’s an app for that.” It seemed safe to assume that we
Continue readingOut of the Ashes | DVD review
2 minute read Out of the Ashes is a documentary about the Afghanistan cricket team’s joyously ludicrous journey from war to the Twenty20 World Cup. Have you ever watched a film and felt completely and utterly unmoved by the most spectacular action sequences because you don’t care one bit about the characters in
Continue readingWG Grace Ate My Pedalo | book review
< 1 minute read You, King Cricket reader, will love WG Grace Ate My Pedalo. We are pretty much certain of that. You may all be very different, but you all have one thing in common – this website. Alan Tyers’ book is not a million miles away from what you might expect to
Continue readingA Fan’s Guide to World Cricket | book review
2 minute read A Fan’s Guide to World Cricket is basically a book with which you’ll idly plan holidays. It’s full colour, looks amazing and makes you wish you were overseas even more than you already do. It covers 55 cities, all of which feature an international cricket ground. You’ll basically leaf through
Continue readingKing Cricket T-shirts and other stuff
2 minute read Cricket T-shirts on Amazon We’ve made some T-shirts. Maybe you could buy some out of pity. Here is a yellow one. Coloured T-shirts are £17.95. Here is a ‘ringer’ T-shirt. Ringer T-shirts are £18.50. The grey and black ringer T-shirt is the one we bought to test the quality. We
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