King Cricket

Not-so-flukey Farooqi, (Phil) Salt consumption, The 99 + more in our latest T20 World Cup round-up

2 minute readThe big news since yesterday is that Afghanistan are through to the next phase of the competition and New Zealand are out. England aren’t NRRly finished though after successfully chasing down Oman’s 47 all out in just 3.1 overs. Salt consumption Oman’s flakey performance meant the entire match only lasted

June 13, 2024 Australia / England / Extras

Bye-bye to the Adelaide-born New York pitch, a craptain’s view of Jos Buttler, accidental manipulation + more in our latest T20 World Cup round-up

4 minute readMany things have happened since our last round-up, but the most significant development is that Nassau County International Cricket Stadium is already on its way back to being a public park. “The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long,” as Tyrell says to Roy in Bladerunner. No,

June 10, 2024 Afghanistan / England / Extras / New Zealand / Pakistan

Rishabh Pant’s punts, Jos Buttler’s gut feel, Fazalhaq Farooqi floors NZ + more in our latest T20 World Cup round-up

4 minute readNo prizes for predicting that England and Pakistan would be two of the ‘big’ nations struggling to qualify for the next phase of this T20 World Cup. New Zealand aren’t usually on the receiving end of drubbings though, even if Afghanistan victories in these tournaments don’t exactly qualify as upsets

June 6, 2024 Associates / Extras

Nassau pitch flora, solar symbolism, Frank Nsubuga + more in our latest T20 World Cup round-up

3 minute readAren’t World Cups more fun when there’s a whole bunch of nations involved and not just the same handful you’ve seen a billion times before? Welcome to our latest 2024 T20 World Cup round-up. A story of soggy success and solar symbolism The key moment in the England v Scotland

June 3, 2024 Associates / Extras

A pop-up stadium, Aaron Jones’ 10 sixes, PNG bother the Windies, a David Wiese Super Over, Ruben Trumpelmann + more

3 minute readBy heck, this could be a good T20 World Cup, you know. All of this in just the first couple of days and Nepal haven’t even played yet. (We’re led to believe Nepal will be the most fun of all.) Even if we had the time, we have no particular

May 31, 2024 England / Pakistan

What’s new? | an England v Pakistan T20 series recap

2 minute readIt was an excellent and valuable bit of fine-tuning for both sides. England and Pakistan will enter the T20 World Cup with very clear ideas how to pass the time if any of their games are rained off. 1st T20 Abandoned without a ball bowled. Poker may or may not

May 30, 2024 Regulars

Pigeons being conspicuously indifferent to an England v Ireland Test match

2 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Last summer, Doctor Alexander Snoddie, one of the Doctors of Leamington, initiated correspondence with regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd… Snoddie: Delighted to bump into you in the jacks… and [Daisy] too,

May 28, 2024 County cricket / Uncategorized

We’re mostly talking about Jordan Cox v Kent this week

2 minute readThe County Championship enters its first hiatus with not much in it at the top after Essex won by an innings and Surrey lost by an innings. Third-placed Somerset also lost by an innings, weirdly. What happened with Surrey then? Dunno really. Despite the fact everyone in their top six

May 23, 2024 England

England’s T20 World Cup squad: 20-something v 30-something head-to-heads

6 minute readTo misquote Ferris Bueller for the Nth time: T20 moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you risk being a cricket website that thinks Joe Root’s still in the England squad. Actually, that mangled quote isn’t even true. T20 doesn’t in fact move

May 21, 2024 County cricket

We’re mostly talking about Dans Lawrence and Worrall, Essex’s bowlers, Jordan Cox and Tom Banton this week… and also Keaton Jennings

3 minute readIt’s not so easy to narrow things down this week. Quite a lot of interesting players made important contributions in the last round of county games. Upshot is… we’re talking about a lot of things. Dans Lawrence and Worrall If anything sums up Surrey’s strength right now, it is that

Ben Duckett and all them battings. Unfortunately, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and all them bowlings.

I think I got away with it...mostly because Daisy rarely reads my Ogblog postings unprompted.

Ben Duckett’s bowling though. Can’t decide which wicket was worse.

New at number 56 this week, McCullum and Buttler with their new single, ‘Yes, No, Sorry!’

Buttler and McCullum sound a bit like a McAlmont and Butler tribute act that forgot which way round the names…

In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis Head

Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowler

23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024

Lord Megachief of Gold 2024

Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?