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August 16, 2022 England / South Africa

Is England v South Africa a series we should care about?

2 minute readIt’s the fun question that now launches all series and tournaments: “Why should I care about this?” When there’s wall-to-wall cricket, nothing can be taken for granted – these days you have to take the time to work out which matches actually matter. No matter how seriously a team says

August 12, 2022 Extras

King Cricket backers rewarded with early access to non-King Cricket thing

2 minute readHere’s a quick update on our Patreon campaign, which we haven’t really mentioned in a while, other than in passing. It’s to do with Pat Cummins. If you don’t know what we’re on about with this whole Patreon thing, the details are here. It’s basically the crowdfunder that keeps the

August 10, 2022 England / Features

Where are Jason Roy’s foundations? Do white ball specialists need more time in the middle?

5 minute readJason Roy isn’t at his best. He’s not even in a place where he can try and bat at his best. How can a white ball specialist like him get back into good batting form these days? Let’s start in the obvious place with a story about a speed skater.

August 8, 2022 Australia / England / India / New Zealand

Lesson from the Commonwealth Games: the team that wins absolutely every single game is a good team

2 minute readWe’ve been here before. Australia are still the team that wins everything – this time gold at the Commonwealth Games. As far as on-the-nose victory anthems go, We Are The Champions by Queen still rules the roost. Comedy writer/actor Stephen Merchant used to talk about trying to write a rival

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

A rainy day in the antipodes, it seems. Almost dry in London today; can't imagine why we are not playing…

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…

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