3 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. Despite making efforts to steer clear of cricket at the minute, we’re rather struggling to switch on
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A cricket bat in a fishing programme
3 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. You are more than free – indeed you are actively encouraged – to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Send more of those ones please. If you’ve never seen Mortimer & Whitehouse:
Continue readingSlog of the Day: JJ Smit v Sri Lanka
2 minute read Given that modern media coverage of T20 cricket tends to revolve around intelligent and enlightening dissection of complex data, we figure there’s a niche for celebrating one of the format’s more straightforward features: the slog. We get very irritated when people dismiss T20 as “just slogging” because there are strategies,
Continue readingA 1982 ‘corridor cricket’ 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.) Herbert Ackgrass, the official cricket biographer of King Cricket reader
Continue readingCricket pads hard at work in an art studio
< 1 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Seriously. We’ve nothing against contrivance. We actively encourage it, if anything. Apparently embracing the timekeeping habits of this website, Tom began writing to
Continue readingThe Hundred Finals 2022 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.) Daisy writes… The headline picture was actually taken by Ged
Continue readingThe Old Trafford mat-fitting scandal – 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.) Bert reckons the following match report “reasonably accurately” covers the
Continue readingBen Stokes was at best only partly responsible for the most exciting moment of the second Test
3 minute read We were at Old Trafford on Friday for the Bens’ hundreds. There were some tense moments and some exciting moments and Ben Stokes didn’t play a direct role in all of them. We’re not sure whether his pride was pricked by this old match report, but the day began with
Continue readingFatty Batter by Michael Simkins in rural Provence
2 minute read Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Ged writes… Daisy and I took a short break in Provence in the spring of 2008. Our main purpose was to help Kin
Continue readingT20 Blast Finals Day 2022 – 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.) Sam Blackledge had a press pass for T20 Blast Finals
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