3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Regular match reporter Ged Ladd titled this particular missive ‘The
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A cricket bat on the wall of a pub
3 minute readFirst published in February 2009, this was the first entry in our long-running cricket bats (and other cricket items) in unusual places feature. Brian writes: This account was written on the insistence of my counsellor. He says I have to face what I have done; to see my actions and
Continue readingA Sim Series match report
3 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. Chuck writes: Having been able to garner premium ‘working from home’ tickets to every single day of the entire Sim
Continue readingA cricket book on a Bullet Train to Kyoto
< 1 minute readRemember travelling? Going from one place to another place? Ged writes: “Here is a cricket book in an unusual place – a Japanese Shinkansen Bullet Train to Kyoto. “Ironically, given that Cricket **** Cricket is about the 1986/87 Ashes tour of Australia, Daisy and I found ourselves alone in a
Continue readingA cat being conspicuously indifferent to the Boxing Day Test
< 1 minute readAP Webster writes: “Please find attached two pictures of my parents’ cat, Dusty (sadly not named after Dusty Rhodes), being conspicuously indifferent to the Sky pundits at lunchtime in the First Test at Centurion. “He is also showing considerable indifference to the pile of Christmas presents in front of the
Continue readingA cricket jumper in an episode of Seinfeld
< 1 minute readGeorge Costanza would bowl Ian Blackwell-esque flat, non-spinning spin. He would bat at number nine and make regular 20s but never pass 50. George Costanza would frequently be involved in run outs. George Costanza would spend a lot of time off the field with the team doctor in the mistaken
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
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 readingA mouse in cricket whites at The Home of Corks – a match report
3 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.
Continue reading“I had an idea how the day would pan out but I went anyway” – 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.
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