< 1 minute readTomorrow’s issue of The Edge, our newsletter, will unfortunately be the final one for a little while as we’ve reached the end of Cricket 365’s sponsorship. The Edge is fun to write, but time-consuming, so without a sponsor it’ll have to go into hiatus/a coma. Think of it like a
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England go Wagner, Azhar Ali enjoys captaincy and Pat Cummins makes many crores | Mop-up of the day
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Continue readingAB de Villiers Retirement Watch, emails and answers | Mop-up of the day
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Continue readingA cricket ball in Netflix’s Designated Survivor
< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Hoopy writes: After deciding I was going to waste a Saturday between mowing the lawn, chatting shit to mates, finishing Borderlands 2 (again) and watching telly, I came up with this. It’s a scene from
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Continue readingWhat does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish? (a match report)
2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail. Ged writes: “What does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish?” I wondered to myself ahead of
Continue readingAre you completely numb to the ridiculousness of cricket terminology?
3 minute readThis piece is not a flimsy excuse to publish footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game. It is a chin-stroking musing on the fundamental meaningless of sporting terminology. The fact that it happens to feature footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game is just a bonus.
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