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June 7, 2021 England / New Zealand

That match when Devon Conway and Ollie Robinson made their Test debuts

4 minute readWe’re pretty sure we know how this Test will be remembered. The England team for the first Test averaged less than 273, so it didn’t seem unreasonable that they gave up trying to chase that on the final day against a really very good and balanced bowling attack. Others disagree,

June 4, 2021 Match report

As cricket crowds (partially) return – what’s it been like to be in the stands at Lord’s this week?

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only interested in what it was like to be at the game, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. Equally, if it’s an amateur match, please go into excruciating detail. Regular King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes…

June 2, 2021 England / New Zealand

The Home of Seam Bowlers

2 minute readPeople often say that having Ben Stokes in the team gives England a fourth seamer. That’s not right. Having Ben Stokes in the team gives England a spinner, because apparently they still pick four seamers even when he’s not playing. This was the first Test cricket at Lord’s for a

June 1, 2021 England

Ollie Robinson is the interesting one, isn’t he?

2 minute readTest cricket is back. Even if it’s a last minute two-Test series that even the boards who arranged it seem a bit nonplussed about, Test cricket is a wonderful and important thing – and never more so than to those who are making their debuts. The general astonishment that England

May 28, 2021 County cricket / England

Haseeb Hameed, relationships and the toughness of love

2 minute readEverything unravelled for Haseeb Hameed at Lancashire. You got the sense that the unravelling momentum was so great towards the end that the county were switching between management strategies every other day in a desperate bid to stumble on something that worked. In contrast, Hameed’s new county, Nottinghamshire, have settled

May 26, 2021 Australia / England / India

Old Trafford Test survives as BCCI turns its attention to a recipe for burnout | Mop-up of the day

3 minute readEngland have reportedly declined India’s ‘informal’ invitation to cancel the fifth Test at Old Trafford. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will therefore do what cricket boards always do in these situations: it will schedule exactly the same number of matches within a shorter span of time.

May 24, 2021 Match report

A 1996 Cricket World Cup final match report

May 21, 2021 County cricket

The best part of Darren Stevens’ frankly insane 190 was what happened next

< 1 minute readKent’s Darren Stevens has been making some incredible things happen in recent years. This season in particular. In fact he’s now reached a point where he is making bonkers things happen even when he’s no longer in the middle. If you don’t already know what happened today, 45-year-old Darren Stevens

May 21, 2021 England / India

Will England and India bin the Old Trafford Test?

2 minute readWe’re intrigued by the formality of cricket board requests. India have asked England if the whole of the upcoming Test series can be shunted forwards a week or alternatively whether the fifth Test, at Old Trafford, could be cancelled. But they’ve apparently only done this “informally”. So it’s not an

May 19, 2021 Australia / England / India / New Zealand

Chris Silverwood respectfully disrespects New Zealand and India

2 minute read“With all due respect…” people say, or “No offence but…” What follows these phrases is somehow never respectful or inoffensive. England coach and selector Chris Silverwood (we warned you he’d try and become a ‘supremo’) didn’t actually plump for either of those options when speaking about the summer ahead earlier