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August 5, 2022 Extras

How cricket administrators see cricketers and why they’re wrong

2 minute readWe generally try and avoid reading or hearing comments from those entrusted with organising the world of cricket. It’s not a nice world. This is not going to be a long or particularly coherent article. We just want to pick out a couple of quotes we’ve seen this week –

August 2, 2022 Extras

The Minecraft cricket ground

4 minute readWe tried to get the lay of the land with The Hundred about to get underway. Amid all the earnest stat-fuelled previews and grave warnings about how franchise cricket has already eaten international cricket and really only needs to digest it now, we spotted a video about a cricket ground

August 1, 2022 England

12 games and four series in 25 days – a July England white ball recap

3 minute readDid England’s white ball schedule get ahead of you this month? It got away from us. It got away from England too. First, the bare bones of it: England lost both the T20 and ODI series 2-1 to India, drew the ODI series against South Africa 1-1 and then lost

July 28, 2022 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Morgan’s Men: The Inside Story of England’s Rise From Cricket World Cup Humiliation to Glory by Nick Hoult and Steve James – book review

2 minute readWe don’t often review cricket books these days because reading about cricket is not generally what we want to do once we’ve finished reading about cricket for the day. King Cricket reader Sam Blackledge read one though and he sent us a review. England won the World Cup in 2019.

July 26, 2022 Regulars

Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins in rural Provence

2 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. Ged writes… Daisy and I took a short break in Provence in the spring of 2008. Our main purpose was to help Kin

July 24, 2022 County cricket / Uncategorized

Maybe this is Sam Northeast’s tasty month

< 1 minute readIf Sam Northeast has had a “thing” it was forever being mentioned as a possible England batter but never actually getting picked. Now he’s the guy who made 410 not out. Some players have a real knack for not getting picked for the Test team. Sam Northeast has delivered in

July 20, 2022 Extras

We’re as tired of 50-over cricket as you – but it does have one thing going for it

4 minute readWeary, ageing superstars normally start to shed formats from one end of cricket (T20s) or the other (Tests). How typical of Ben Stokes that he should instead see fit to tear out the middle. What does his decision say about the future of 50-over cricket? International cricket’s middle format isn’t

July 18, 2022 England

Ben Stokes is managing

2 minute read‘Managing’ means two things. It means taking decisions and directing matters so that everything hopefully progresses more smoothly. It also means bumbling through in the face of various problems in the vague hope you’ll just get through it all somehow. Tired of the second approach, Ben Stokes has switched to

July 18, 2022 Match report

T20 Blast Finals Day 2022 – match report

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Sam Blackledge had a press pass for T20 Blast Finals

July 13, 2022 England / Features

Eoin Morgan – the captain who ignored everyone and gave England ambition

8 minute readEngland were a one-day team who didn’t know how to top 300 – didn’t even dare to try. Eoin Morgan turned them into the best flat track batting side there’s ever been. It’s worth taking stock of the scale of that transformation and the conviction of the captain who achieved