2 minute readSend 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. Miriam writes: Here is a photo of my new baby daughter Clementine in a cricket pad. She is being conspicuously indifferent to cricket,
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Headingley 2019 unwatched – a kind of match report
2 minute readWe always enjoy a tale of trying to follow the cricket without actually watching the cricket. Today, day four of the 2019 Headingley Ashes Test… Sam writes: The following is a true story. I removed my headphones, dusted down my grass-stained trousers and skipped giddily back to the car, children
Continue readingAn Ashes-themed conversation starter pack on moral and ethical issues (a match report)
2 minute readGed writes: The Heavy Rollers has been a cricket-watching group, primarily at Edgbaston, for more than 20 years. This year, for the first time, we were joined by some antipodean guests of Nigel Father-Barry’s. I hesitate to use the term “the enemy”, but, let’s be frank about it, England cricket
Continue readingCricket pads on Lord Buckethead
< 1 minute readSend 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. The Smudge writes: Please find attached a picture of Lord Buckethead, Intergalactic Space Lord, wearing wicket keeping pads. This picture was taken after
Continue readingWatching (and missing) a dramatic day of England v West Indies in 2000 – a match report
< 1 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. William went to day three of the
Continue readingA cricket book in the Ekoin Monastery Temple in Koyasan, Japan
< 1 minute readSend 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. Daisy writes: Ged and I visited one of the holiest places in the Shingoan Buddhist world; the beautiful pilgrimage town of Koyasan in
Continue readingCricket gloves on Cybermen in Doctor Who
< 1 minute readSend 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. Andrew pointed out to us that back in the Sylvester McCoy era of Doctor Who, the Cybermen wore batting gloves sprayed silver. Batting
Continue readingThis guy paid £50 for a £300 ticket to go and see England v South Africa at the Oval with some strangers – a match report
2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. William went to England v South Africa
Continue readingA cricket jumper on Donald Trump
< 1 minute readSend 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. Commander Brian Sausage got in touch with us to draw our attention to this. It’s a creepy painting of Donald Trump in a
Continue readingA copy of Wisden (and more) in A Clockwork Orange
< 1 minute readSend 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. Wisden makes a cameo appearance in A Clockwork Orange. Thanks to Andrew for pointing this out to us via Twitter. A Clockwork Orange
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