King Cricket

February 10, 2017 India

Virat Kohli dealing in daddies and doubles

< 1 minute readIs ‘supersizing’ still a thing or did it die out after that Morgan Spurlock film? We’re old enough now that we should probably research our knee-jerk cultural references to see whether they still apply. Let’s not bother and just assume that this one’s still current. Virat Kohli had never hit

February 8, 2017 England

Were Alastair Cook (and his family) ‘let out to dry’ by the ECB?

2 minute readAlastair Cook has said that the ECB “kind of let me out to dry a little bit” over Kevin Pietersen’s sacking and the ensuing brouhaha. Being ‘let out to dry’ makes him sound like a cat who’s mistaken bubble bath foam for solid land and now needs the back door

February 7, 2017 Associates / England

Eoin Morgan to be Ireland Test captain?

< 1 minute read“Even more than making it in Twenty20 or 50‑over cricket my real ambition has been to become a Test player,” said Eoin Morgan when England first gave him a shot at the five-day stuff. After 16 Tests and two hundreds, it seems highly unlikely they’ll give him another go, but

February 6, 2017 England

Alastair Cook finally works out that he doesn’t much like being England captain

2 minute readAfter four-and-a-half years and 59 Test matches, Alastair Cook has finally thought to himself: “Wait a minute, this is a rubbish a job and I don’t actually have to do it.” It sometimes seems like every England captain’s career is simply a long, slow deduction that the honour and prestige

February 4, 2017 Extras

ICC horse design proposals approved to go before next committee

2 minute readThe Test nations are poised to rain an almighty storm of compromises down on the ICC’s proposals for the international cricket schedule. We know this for a fact because in cricket ‘proposal’ means ‘thing that will never come about in any recognisable form’. These latest proposals – for some sort

February 3, 2017 West Indies

Viv Richards has a chilli sauce

< 1 minute readOr possibly had. Graeme Swann doesn’t make it clear in his tweet just how long the bottle’s been at the back of his cupboard. Amazing find in the sauce cupboard at home…just sampled it for lunch…nearly blew my head off!! #kingviv #masterblaster #raspinhot pic.twitter.com/EDIfBjVTiO — Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66) January 30,

February 1, 2017 England / India

MS Dhoni is officially capable of scoring a fifty in a T20 international

< 1 minute readAh, bless. He’d made a few in club cricket, but this was MS Dhoni’s first fifty in T20 internationals. Hopefully this is a first step towards a successful career on the big stage. Speaking after the game, Dhoni may or may not have said: “This was my first fifty in

January 31, 2017 West Indies

Why Andre Russell was banned

2 minute readIf you didn’t know it already, “it’s not my fault, I asked someone else to do it for me” is not a legitimate defence for failing to tell dope testers where you’re going to be. Andre Russell has therefore been handed a one-year ban. If that sounds harsh, consider that

January 31, 2017 County cricket

Mop-up of the long weekend – SHIV!

2 minute readWe’ve been away. We’re not really up to speed. Thanks to Roscoe H Spellgood, we know that speed equals distance over time, so we suppose that we’ll just sit around for a while and hope that we recover the ground. Doubtless you can help us out by providing a few

January 26, 2017 Match report

England v Pakistan at Old Trafford – match report

2 minute readWe went to the second Test between England and Pakistan. It was one of your ‘on and off’ type days where the line between raining and not raining becomes blurred. Having greatly enjoyed the timeless rope dragging technique at Bristol earlier in the summer, we were interested to see whether