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September 29, 2022 County cricket

Relegation? Liam Norwell has no time for your ‘most likelys’ or your ‘probablys’. Liam Norwell has got nine wickets to take

< 1 minute readWarwickshire needed to defend 139 to stay in the first division of the County Championship. That’s not many runs. For some reason Liam Norwell felt it was plenty. Liam Norwell was right. 30-year-old Norwell probably wouldn’t mind a reduction in County Championship cricket as he’s always been one of those

September 28, 2022 County cricket

3 unanswered questions about Stevo Day as Darren Stevens leaves Kent

3 minute readIt was Stevo Day at Canterbury yesterday in honour of county legend, Darren Stevens, who is leaving Kent at the end of the season, even though he’s only 46 and in the prime of his life (or at the very least prime adjacent). We have some questions about this possibly

September 26, 2022 England / Pakistan

Haris Rauf has a look and no respect for physics

2 minute readHaris Rauf looks tired. Not sleepy tired. The kind of tired where you have no patience for anything. The kind of tired where if you say the wrong thing he will very quickly go from quiet and reserved to absolutely going off his head at you in a highly terrifying

September 22, 2022 County cricket

Surrey end summer

2 minute readWell that came about abruptly. There we were settling in for a last couple of weeks of County Championship intrigue, only for Surrey to win the thing in 2.5 days. First Hampshire lost to Kent. “That session at the end of day one where we were bowled out in 18

September 21, 2022 County cricket

No Alex Hales, no Jason Roy, but one Ollie Pope – the County Championship careers towards its conclusion

3 minute readRuns don’t win you a two-innings cricket match, but by Godfrey Evans, they sure as Shivnarine Chanderpaul help. The Surrey v Hampshire County Championship title run-in feels like it’s shed a bit of tension after Ollie Pope’s 136 and Hampshire’s 57 all out in the penultimate round of matches. We

September 20, 2022 Regulars

Cricket pads hard at work in an art studio

< 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. Seriously. We’ve nothing against contrivance. We actively encourage it, if anything. Apparently embracing the timekeeping habits of this website, Tom began writing to

September 16, 2022 County cricket / Uncategorized

Oh yeah, the County Championship – so where are we with that then?

2 minute readThe hot Le Creuset pan that is the County Championship has sufficiently cooled that we again feel able to grasp it in our now autumnally frostbitten fingers. But just what are we grasping after all this time? What’s the situation here? In the early days of Breaking Bad, back in

September 14, 2022 England / Features

12 England things that happened in the summer of 2022 – maybe they tell a story of some kind (or maybe they don’t)

6 minute readWe did this last year, reasoning that a collage of moments from England’s home season might somehow paint a broader picture of where they stand right now. It feels like it does a little bit – but then who knows what’ll come next. New dawns are widely regarded as immaculately

September 12, 2022 England / South Africa

Ollie Robinson’s wicket celebration is becoming very familiar

2 minute readOllie Robinson doesn’t do his pointing upper-cut celebration every time he takes a wicket, but he does it often enough that it certainly feels like he does. Plenty of bowlers have had signature celebrations over the years – little sequences of actions they reflexively do in response to each dismissal.

September 9, 2022 England / South Africa

Rain and reign and the annual carry-over Test

< 1 minute readIs this a thing now? Is the scheduled last Test of each summer forever destined to be played the following year? We’re jumping the gun here, but there’s at least some sort of a chance we’re going to have to run a Sim Series here, isn’t there? After first rain

And appear on different days on the BBC's live scores page, which still routinely fails to show ongoing Australia Test…

It's nice having two Tests at the same time to wake up to, although I do then get very confused…

I gather Corbin Bosch is currently the best all-rounder in test cricket. Nay, maybe the best stand-alone bowler and stand-alone…

Indeed KC. The decision by Kohli to do what he did was quite unfathomable as surely he'd would have known…

Corbin Bosch, the left wing domestic appliance. Handy with the bat too. Corbin 'Bish Bash' Bosch. Three very contrasting matches,…

Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?

Suffering centuries: Six bowlers who conceded extraordinary Test hundreds

Hats off to Harry Brook’s very particular ‘steamrollered pancake pitch’ set of skills

Let’s pick the All-Time Greatest Middle-Aged XI

Less than the sum of their parts: Six Test batting partnerships that invariably disappointed