< 1 minute readGed writes: PowerSolo are a wild and crazy Danish nouveau-punk duo. They mostly tour around Europe, not the UK. My old friend Pinball Geoff put me onto them recently – they are even more mad than his band, the Bikini Beach Band. Short story. During the first twenty seconds of
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Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk
Half a dozen cricket balls in an unusual place
< 1 minute readThis is how you do home décor people. Marking the other strand of our other writing life, our bike is also in the kitchen. In contrast to the cricket balls, its decorative worth is still the matter of some debate. Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute readIt’s been a while since we had a cricket thing in an unusual place – so long, in fact, that many of you won’t even know that it’s supposed to be a regular feature. Ged sent us the following photo and said only: “Sphere Of Influence By Gideon Haigh, spotted
Continue readingA cricket bat in a real tennis place
< 1 minute readGed writes: I know what you are thinking, dear reader: “That real tennis workshop must be at Lord’s; how can Lord’s be an unusual place to see a cricket bat?” Well I’m here to tell you that the real tennis area at Lord’s is a relentlessly cricket equipment free zone.
Continue readingCricket bats in Jinja, Uganda
2 minute readSam writes: Please find attached a picture of several cricket bats in an unusual place, namely a glass case in a shop in Jinja, Uganda. I took this picture as I was walking along the main road in Jinja, which is a fairly small town about an hour’s drive away
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute readYou’d all forgotten about our feature ‘cricket bats/stuff in unusual places’ – UNTIL NOW! Ged sent us this: Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk
Continue readingRemember the worst picture of all time?
< 1 minute readIf you don’t, it looks like this. And before that earned the title of ‘worst picture of all time’ there was this. Both horrendous. Both making our spine do odd things even as they sit in unviewed tabs in our web browser. Perhaps inspired by the fox-based horror in that
Continue readingEngland v Australia 2009 Oval Test match report
< 1 minute readBradders writes: My wife Pauline and I were married on the 20th August 2009 in Adare, southern Ireland. Due to it being the first day of the final Test of the Ashes series, it was obviously a momentous day. Having booked the wedding a year before (and prior to the
Continue readingA cricket bat from an unusual angle
< 1 minute readBobby K sent us this: We thought it might look pretty cool if we cropped out all the background. It didn’t really, but we’re including the picture anyway. You invest 10 or 12 seconds in cropping a photo and you want to share it with the world.
Continue readingSeveral cricket items in a slightly unusual place
2 minute readDandy Dan writes: In the Conan Doyle, a pub at the top of Leith Walk in Edinburgh, there is this: Now, before you ask, I have no idea where the third stump is. Or how someone managed to throw a cricket ball at the bat at just the right moment
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