2 minute read Send 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.) Irrepressible King Cricket match reporter Ged writes… I have known
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What’s it like in the Old Trafford temporary stand? (a match report)
4 minute read Send 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.) Our eternal lack of enthusiasm for doing absolutely anything before
Continue readingA new era of Test cricket (a match report)
2 minute read Send 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 King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… The self-styled Heavy
Continue readingMeeting people is easy – an Edgbaston 2023 match report
2 minute read Send 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.) King Cricket contributor Sam Blackledge writes… ‘Meeting People is Easy’,
Continue readingA right royal stand off – a 2022 England v New Zealand match report
2 minute read Send 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 King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Daisy had especially
Continue readingPotential converts and marshmallows – a Middlesex v Kent match report
3 minute read Send 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.) Balladeer writes… I haven’t actually been to the cricket that
Continue readingA cricketing effigy in an unexpected place
< 1 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. It is more than okay to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself if you want. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Deep within Standard Chartered Bank’s City of London offices, while
Continue readingA fox being conspicuously indifferent to Being Geoffrey Boycott
< 1 minute read If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Daisy writes… Ged and I went to a supper and talk at Lord’s about the book Being Geoffrey Boycott. Ged has written up the evening. On arrival, when we first looked out
Continue readingThe government pilot post-social-distancing 2021 Edgbaston Test – a match report
3 minute read Send 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.) Ged Ladd submitted this match report what might be termed
Continue readingA ChatGPT match report for day one of the 2023 County Championship
2 minute read Ged Ladd instructed ChatGPT to write up, three months in advance, the first day of 2023 cricket at Lord’s. The instructions for “The First Day Of The Cricket Season” read, “comedy, 300 words, on no account mention the cricket itself”. Ged supplied ChatGPT with three relevant examples of Ged’s match
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