2 minute readNo Dravid, no Ganguly – no problem. Other players are making the step up and showing the maturity that should go hand-in-hand with seniority, but so often doesn’t. We were unsure when Mahendra Dhoni was made the captain of India’s one-day team. The extravagant crowd favourite rarely makes the best
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Sachin Tendulkar finds something he hasn’t done and does it
< 1 minute readNamely, score a one-day international hundred in Australia. Rohit Sharma may have played a major part, but he merely provided able and precocious support to the main man. It might be about the fifth time we’ve written this, but it doesn’t get any less true: Sachin Tendulkar is THE BALLS.
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< 1 minute readAustralia v Sri Lanka today might be a meaningless dead rubber, but on Sunday it’s FINALS TIME. Australia and India might have played four one-day internationals against each other already, but they weren’t FINALS. Now its serious. Previously, both teams were only concerned with getting to THE FINALS. But now
Continue readingAustralia and India sent to headmaster’s office
2 minute read“Oh no. We’re going to get DONE. And, and, and. And Mark says that he’s got a cane, even though it’s against the law and that he’s even got a special stripey cane for when you’re REALLY bad.” So now we all know why players say ‘what’s said on the
Continue readingIPL player prices
4 minute readFor those that don’t know, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is a new Twenty20 tournament where eight city ‘franchises’ compete for little prestige, but huge fiscal reward. There were several players who were classed as ‘iconic’ and had to stay with their home teams, but everyone else was up for
Continue readingYuvraj Singh can actually play deliveries that bounce above his knees
2 minute readWe’ve had a computer that hated the internet FOR ALL IT WAS WORTH for the last two days, so we’re a bit behind. We’re going to try and catch up, so brace yourselves for some three sentence updates that completely miss the point of what’s been going on. Yuvraj Singh
Continue readingWho are India’s best fast bowlers?
< 1 minute readIt’s great to have strength in depth, but surely you want some idea who your best bowlers are. India have had five quick bowlers performing well on this tour alone. The picture’s murkier than our imaginary, more colourful past. Zaheer Khan, RP Singh and Irfan Pathan provided some sort of
Continue readingIndia, world Twenty20 champions, bat like pillocks
< 1 minute readWe’ve no problem branding professional cricketers as ‘pillocks’. That’s the kind of fearless reportage you get here at King Cricket. We’re not afraid to bandy strong words around. We’re not afraid to bandy anything, because we’re not totally sure what bandying entails. Irfan Pathan was the sole Indian batsman to
Continue readingAustralia fail on a flat pitch
< 1 minute readFor years most Australian Test wickets have been flatter than a pancake ironed by an anal retentive with the world’s most accurate spirit level. Aussie batsmen have filled their boots knowing they had the bowlers to win a match on any surface. Last year, at Adelaide, there were two innings
Continue readingMatthew Hayden: the gift that keeps on giving
< 1 minute readOnly the gift is a poo in a box and it keeps jumping up and punching you in the face, leaving you bruised and faecal. Eventually the poo knocks you out, whereupon it steals all your money and forces you to dance naked in the car park at work in
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