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January 28, 2015 Extras

14 cricketers who did and didn’t do what we thought they would over the last five years

3 minute readFive years ago, we picked out five batsmen, four all-rounders and five bowlers who we thought would be the best over the next five-year period. Let’s have a look at how wrong we were. Batsmen Here’s who we picked. Let’s look at their records at the point at which we

January 27, 2015 Extras

A positive, aggressive brand of cricket

< 1 minute readThere’s definitely an opening for an opportunistic side to play a negative, attritional brand of cricket during this World Cup. That approach is so rare, the opposition won’t know what has limply and boringly hit them. More about this in the form of a satirical news report over at Cricinfo.

January 26, 2015 England

The lollop, the leap and physics-defying bounce

< 1 minute readSay what you like about Steve Harmison’s overall record, but he could lollop in and hit you on the elbow with the best of them. That uncanny ability to make the ball bounce considerably more than should have been physically possible brought him a bunch of wickets and England a

January 23, 2015 Extras

Next week on King Cricket…

< 1 minute readThere’s going to be relatively little news coverage on here next week. And by ‘relatively little’ we actually mean none. We’ve decided we need to graze in the outfield for a few days so that we can come back and hit the deck hard come the World Cup. Clearly you’re

January 23, 2015 England

Apparently we’ve covered Eoin Morgan’s personal life once before

< 1 minute readWe knew this site would become a hub for celebrity gossip one day. We received a surge in traffic yesterday off the back of the fully weird news that someone tried to blackmail the ECB over some sort of relationship Eoin Morgan once had with a human woman. The landing

January 21, 2015 Australia

Batting aggression does not require actual aggression

2 minute readThat’s a straightforward message for Ricky Ponting and all who would make a similar defence of David Warner’s behaviour. Read it, accept that it is a fact and then go away and think through the issues again, Ricky. Ponting’s latest column for Cricinfo features the following assumption, stated as fact.

January 20, 2015 England

The 85mph right-arm seam bowler basket

< 1 minute readWe’re not intending to be a naysayer here, trotting around saying ‘nay’ like a horse that can’t spell (so a horse then). We just want to muddy the unmitigated positivity because one win is not much of a sample from which to draw conclusions. One of our main concerns centres

January 19, 2015 Australia

Being an arsehole gives David Warner special powers

< 1 minute readThat is the subtext of any comment from captain or coach after David Warner has behaved like a bit of a prick. “He’s an aggressive player and we don’t want him to lose that edge,” they say. They say this because they know the truth: picking fights with people as

January 18, 2015 South Africa

AB de Villiers needs Moonraker

< 1 minute readBack in November 2012, AB de Villiers made 33 off 220 balls so that South Africa could save a Test against Australia. In March last year, against the same opposition, he made 43 off 228 balls, but this time South Africa lost. Today it took him all of 31 balls

January 16, 2015 England

Whither James Tredwell?

2 minute readAsked which of his team-mates he least enjoyed facing in the nets recently, Moeen Ali said: “James Tredwell. Annoying. You just try and smack him and you can’t hit him anywhere.” It’s one of the mysteries of the age how Tredders doesn’t go for seven an over, but it’s a