King Cricket

October 7, 2009 India

How do you feel about the Twenty20 Champions’ League?

< 1 minute readWhen we were younger and interested in both cricket and football, we thought that cricket could learn from club football. Now, having pretty much completely forsaken football due to it having become an earth-rattling shodfest that’s part soap opera and part corporate dick-swinging contest, we’re a bit worried that cricket

October 6, 2009 Pakistan

Shoaib Akhtar undergoes abstract expressionistic rehabilitation

< 1 minute readShoaib Akhtar is going to get himself mended by Andrew Flintoff’s surgeon. “I hear that he is like an artist with knees and that his expertise is second to none.” Don’t most artists have knees? It’s not an occupation specifically reserved for the fixed-legged is it?

October 6, 2009 Australia

Bask in the glorious scene

< 1 minute readBefore the Champions’ Trophy began, ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, gave it the big sell: “This is short, sharp and exciting. We have also created a winner’s jacket.” He didn’t say he’d created MULTIPLE winners’ jackets. You know you’re good at something when you get given a jacket to wear

October 5, 2009 Australia

Wanting Shane Watson to reach his hundred

< 1 minute readHow can we possibly have found ourself wanting Shane Watson to get a hundred. He was on 92 and Australia needed eight to win the Champions’ Trophy. Why on earth did we want him to reach three figures? Seriously, why? This isn’t rhetoric. We actually want an explanation. He’s ridiculously

October 4, 2009 England

Kevin Pietersen ready to abandon England so he can get more money elsewhere

< 1 minute readThat’s an exaggerated version of the kind of headline that’s been cropping up after Kevin Pietersen’s interview with the Observer. It’s a shame that’s the angle that’s taken, because actually Pietersen’s got a lot of sense in him and it gets washed away by all the indignant, semi-xenophobic spitting that

October 2, 2009 Match report

Panthers v Lightning Pro40 match report

2 minute readTim writes: Riding on the crest of the Ashes wave and generally high both in spirit and days of annual leave to take before September, my good friend Thomas and I decided to go and enjoy the last days of English summertime in a most traditional way; watching men in

October 1, 2009 Regulars

Everyone suddenly becomes aware that the stumps are liable to explode

< 1 minute readNo-one was quite sure what it was, but everyone agreed that it was very clear that the stumps suddenly seemed like they were going to explode. Billy Bowden backed away. Monty Panesar attempted to protect himself with his oversized hands and AB de Villiers just threw himself to the ground.

September 30, 2009 Uncategorised

A cricket bat at a wedding

< 1 minute readYou don’t often see cricket bats at weddings. It should happen more often. This wasn’t a normal wedding though. This was the wedding of Miriam and Jrod of Cricket With Balls. They were married at The Oval and the groom wore cricket whites. Send your pictures of cricket bats and

September 29, 2009 Australia

Inconsistency in Australian cricket

< 1 minute readBert writes: A common comment you hear from Australians, is that they lost the 2009 Ashes series because they were “inconsistent”. However, what they have failed to understand is that in cricket, especially Test match cricket, ‘inconsistent’ is a direct synonym for ‘rubbish’. An inconsistent batsman plays a couple of

September 28, 2009 Match report

Middlesex v Lancashire Pro 40 match report

2 minute readGed Ladd writes: Daisy and I thought it would be a nice idea to treat our niece, Lavender (daughter of Daisy’s twin sister, Buttercup) to an evening at Lord’s, with Lavender’s new beau Escamillo, who hails from Lancashire. We have treated the Bristol-based nephews Belmonte and Manolete in the past,

After taking 4/56 then carrying her bat with 114*, Hayley Matthews was unsurprisingly player of the match for the Windies…

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Nice piece, KC. Just a little disappointed not to see the phrase "Banton & on & on & on" in…

Hope you don’t mind, but here’s my take - much the same as yours only with more words…… https://jwthedilettantepolymath.substack.com/p/county-cricket-commences …….best…

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