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April 23, 2020 Regulars

A copy of Wisden (and more) in A Clockwork Orange

< 1 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. Wisden makes a cameo appearance in A Clockwork Orange. Thanks to Andrew for pointing this out to us via Twitter. A Clockwork Orange

April 20, 2020 Match report

Straight Outta the Upper Compton – a match report

3 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.) Regular match reporter Ged Ladd titled this particular missive ‘The

April 17, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day five: England and Australia slowly build all-time thriller

4 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) England (19-0 and

April 16, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day four: Australia refuse to be rushed

3 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) England (313-7) trail

April 15, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day three: Australia plug away

April 14, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day two: Hard toil for England bowlers

April 13, 2020 Australia / England

Sim Nineties: the 1990s-est Ashes – day one

5 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) The match is

April 9, 2020 Australia

The 1990s-est Australia Test XI

2 minute readLet’s pick a 1990s Australia XI. We’re not looking for the best team here; we’re just trying to pick an Australia Test team that couldn’t be more Nineties if it tried. We’re not as comfortable gauging Australian 1990s-ness as we are gauging English 1990s-ness, so a couple of weeks back

April 7, 2020 England / Features

The 1990s-est England Test XI

3 minute readLet’s pick a 1990s England XI. We’re not looking for a good team here; we’re not trying to pick a bad one either. We’re just trying to pick an England Test team that couldn’t be more Nineties if it tried. A 1990s England team is not really about the stalwarts

April 7, 2020 Regulars

A cricket bat on the wall of a pub

3 minute readFirst published in February 2009, this was the first entry in our long-running cricket bats (and other cricket items) in unusual places feature. Brian writes: This account was written on the insistence of my counsellor. He says I have to face what I have done; to see my actions and