< 1 minute readThe great thing about making no discernible progress in life is that when there isn’t anything you want to write about, you know where to look to find what you wrote five years ago. On the 16th January, 2008, this website was updated not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES.
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ODI fielding restrictions – four men outside the circle
< 1 minute readA one-day international (ODI) rule change is nothing new. They fiddle with the regulations more often than Sir Jimmy fiddled with… no, that’s not an acceptable analogy. While rule changes are rarely in themselves interesting, they do just about become worthy of discussion when you think about the impact on
Continue readingCricket Snooker
< 1 minute readThe cricket news is still boring us, so here’s another way to improve a vastly inferior sport by making it slightly cricket-related. To play Cricket Snooker, you will need: A snooker table and balls A snooker bat/stick The kind of haircut seen on footballers about six years ago One of
Continue readingTwenty20 cricket darts
< 1 minute readEngland lost again. According to Cricinfo, the weather was ‘smoke’ and then ‘fog’. Now, onto the important stuff: encouraging cricket to invade other sports. We’ve just learnt about Twenty20 cricket darts and we heartily approve of it. If we had any kind of memory for this sort of stuff, we’d
Continue readingCricket management games – a must for administrators
2 minute readIt’s December the 24th and we’re feeling festive, so we’re going to write about everyone’s favourite pastime – administration. In short, we have a demand: all potential cricket administrators should be forced to play four seasons on a cricket management game before they can be considered for any job. We
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute readYou’d all forgotten about our feature ‘cricket bats/stuff in unusual places’ – UNTIL NOW! Ged sent us this: Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk
Continue readingWho’s your favourite cricketer?
< 1 minute readAnd why? We think we might be interested, but we reserve the right to change our opinion should you write 3,000 words without any line breaks. Our favourite cricketer was Waqar Younis, as you’ll know if you used to read what was then The Wisden Cricketer. We don’t think the
Continue readingThe site is back and hopefully faster
< 1 minute readThe site has been offline for a day. We were moving it to new hosting. Thank you to Prince Stickball for his assistance in this. Hopefully the site will run a bit more quickly and reliably now. Apologies to those of you who’ve been repeatedly checking the site for updates
Continue readingLaszlo is indifferent to Chris Gayle
< 1 minute readMichael sent us this picture, the title above and nothing else: Our unquenchable thirst for information led us to ask whether Laszlo was named after a fictional character mentioned by Troy McClure in a Simpson’s episode. Michael replied: “He’s indirectly named after the cinematographer, but mostly I just liked the
Continue readingIf you buy one cricket magazine this month…
< 1 minute readBuy The Cricketer. We’ve a thing in it. “Was Don Bradman really the greatest batsman? Is Test cricket the pinnacle? Was it definitely better in your day? It’s time to bust some myths, says Alex Bowden.” Only we didn’t say that. That’s not the kind of thing we say. We
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