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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

July 11, 2022 India

We basically hate Suryakumar Yadav although it isn’t really his fault

3 minute readWe have really taken against Suryakumar Yadav and we feel quite bad about that but we also can’t help it. Suryakumar Yadav is widely known as “Sky”. He said Gautam Gambhir gave him the nickname because they’re his initials. Only they’re not his initials, are they? Because he’s not Surya

July 7, 2022 Match report

Western Storm v Sunrisers – match repoem

< 1 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.) They don’t have to rhyme. Sam sent us the following

July 5, 2022 England / India

Ben Stokes’ England are so far beating their greatest enemy – second-guessing themselves

4 minute read“It’s a game of failure, batting,” said Joe Root five minutes after this Test finished. The statement was on the one hand very sage and on the other just plain wrong. Four times in a row England have chased a lot of runs to win. This would be remarkable even

July 3, 2022 England / India

Ranked: All eight deliveries in Stuart Broad’s world record 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah

4 minute readSome people said Stuart Broad’s 35-run over to Jasprit Bumrah reminded them of when Yuvraj Singh hit him for 36 in the T20 World Cup that time. But it was not like that. It was not like that at all. This was much, much better and funnier. There’s actually a

July 1, 2022 England

A piss-easy way to carve out extra time for each women’s Test match

2 minute readEngland’s men’s team are halfway through playing two Tests in two weeks against different opponents. England’s women’s team have a full year to wait until their next Test against anyone. The comparisons are easy, jarring and awful. The New Zealand/India fortnight is only the middle back-to-back for the men after

June 29, 2022 Uncategorized

A cold Sciver, a handy Kapp and Alice Davidson-Richards

2 minute readRemember when being five down for not many runs was a bad thing? Whatever happened to that? Two weeks ago, England’s men’s team were 93-4 in pursuit of 299 to win. Somewhere around a minute later, they’d won the match – in large part thanks to Jonny Bairstow, who was

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