< 1 minute readSomewhere, in a dark, neglected, cobweb-strewn corner of the Cricinfo homepage, an article of ours was briefly accessible. You may have missed it because Mark Nicholas was hogging all the prime real e-state. The article in question is about the format of the World Cup – same as all cricket
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Why the world no longer truly understands the majesty of Shahid Afridi
< 1 minute readWe watched a bunch of sixes today. Well, we say ‘watched’. What we actually mean is that we heard commentators overreacting to sixes while writing something. We didn’t look up once. We live in a different world, nowadays. We’ve tried to take you back to the old one in our
Continue readingUnity, leadership not a problem – Holder
< 1 minute readWe’re thinking about getting more into uninspired, derivative headlines. This is what we’d have gone with for our latest Cricinfo piece. And while we’re linking, it’s also just occurred to us that we never pointed you towards the latest king added to our pantheon over at All Out Cricket. This
Continue readingMop-up of the day – warm-ups, schmarm ups
< 1 minute readAustralia obliterated India, England battered the Windies and all for nought. World Cup pressure is not yet here and in fact probably won’t be here until the 18th of March when the quarter finals finally get underway. Even so, these were striking results. England dismissed the Windies for 122 and
Continue readingHow the value of a six relates to apple consumption
< 1 minute readOur latest Cricinfo piece has been a huge hit. Here’s what the critics are saying about it. “Assume someone eats 10 apples per day and wants to reduce the number of apples he eats per day. He decides to counts two apples as one(or one as half) and claims that
Continue readingKP: The Autobiography – book review
3 minute readA guest review of KP: The Autobiography by Dandy Dan. Having met KP and most of team, I feel I’m very qualified to review this book – especially as he came across to me as actually being all right. I didn’t buy it. I got it out from the library.
Continue readingAggression, aggressive batting and viral-induced half-arsedness
< 1 minute readWe appear to have been struck down by lack-of-altitude sickness or summat, so here’s a perfunctory ticking-the-boxes, phoning-it-in update linking to something we wrote for someone else. Aggression and aggressive batting – we covered it here on King Cricket fairly comprehensively, but yet still felt moved to write something for
Continue readingThe other 10 World Cup cricketers to watch
2 minute readWe could do the same Kohli, de Villiers, Johnson list as everyone else or we could pick out 10 players who you’ll actually have to make some effort to watch. So, in no particular order… Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan 40 years old and ostensibly a plodder, Misbah recently matched Viv Richards’ record
Continue readingCricinfo, Nick Knight and Bishan Bedi
< 1 minute readWe come back from a week away and it’s all kicking off. Cricinfo’s changed so that you can’t tell what’s going on in the world; Nick Knight’s photographing Victoria’s Secret models (“Should be an innovative, eye-catching shot suitable for an ultra-glossy magazine cover… Is an innovative, eye-catching shot suitable for
Continue readingJungfraujoch match report
3 minute readBert writes: Some years ago, one of this site’s regular correspondents set what I imagine he thought would be an all-time altitude record for match reporting. He claimed that the match was taking place at an altitude (and I quote) of 3,500m. Now there is something rather strange about this,
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