South Africa

How we’ll remember Mark Boucher

< 1 minute readWhen someone retires, people are generally supposed to focus on that person’s attributes and this has been particularly true for Mark Boucher after his career was ended by a horrendous incident where a bail cut his eyeball. However, here at King Cricket we don’t have all that much lyrical waxation

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Extras

Julius Caesar was a cricketer

< 1 minute readWhy does no-one tell us these things? That title should perhaps read ‘there was a cricketer called Julius Caesar’ but a little ambiguity never harmed anyone. Our Julius Caesar was a Surrey short-arse who was ‘a fine steady bat’ whose fielding at point was ‘extremely beautiful’. Apparently, he could also

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Uncategorised

Rating Mark Ramprakash’s career

< 1 minute readWe long ago had our say about whether Mark Ramprakash could have been an England great if he’d been treated differently. Our stance is: ‘Well maybe, but that don’t change owt’. Today, for once, we’d like to focus on what he DID achieve, because that was pretty extraordinary. Scoring 2,000

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England

Two new balls for England

2 minute readThat title refers to the fact that two balls are now used in one-day internationals – one from each end. You could read it as being a reference to the effect this rule change has had on England as well though. It’s often said that using two balls is good

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