< 1 minute read We’ve written a piece for Cricinfo that has already been branded ‘a senseless attempt at trying to make people laugh’. You’ve got to take pride in earning comments like that. It revolves around the things in the title of this post. We’ve been trying to work ‘handshakefulness’ into an article
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The autumnal cricketing wasteland
< 1 minute read It’s not the English cricket season and it’s not yet the Ashes. People aren’t interested in cricket at this time of year, but that’s why we started this site; for the days when the newspapers don’t feature a single cricket article. The good news is we’ll be ticking over as
Continue readingReceiving money for underperformance
2 minute read A man with a pencil moustache approaches King Cricket. Man: Hellooooo. KC: Er, hello? Man: How are you doing this fine day? KC: I’m fine. Sorry, do I know you? Man: No, you don’t know me. But perhaps you should. The man raises an eyebrow and looks King Cricket up
Continue readingIs this pitch spongy, Dhoni?
< 1 minute read MS Dhoni said that New Zealand beat India by 200 runs in a one-day game because the pitch was a bit spongy. We presume he meant it was like the sponge above, rather than being like those jelly creatures that race along the sea floor at speeds of up to
Continue readingAn eventful innings and some uneventful innings
< 1 minute read We’ve covered both while whoring ourself out to other people this week. Kevin Pietersen’s blindingly haphazard knock over at the Wisden Cricketer Some earth-shatteringly tedious knocks over at Cricinfo The Cricinfo one features someone called MCG Gladlyaddled-Smeethington drinking brandy in the sixth tiffin break, if that makes the article sound
Continue readingWe have a serious point to make
< 1 minute read Those of you who’ve only read this website for a couple of years or so might not be aware that this ever happens. Mostly we try and avoid it because people only end up giving us stick. Our point has been made over at the Wisden Cricketer, because for some
Continue readingListening to Test Match Sofa via this site
< 1 minute read Can we have some reader feedback? We’ve added a Test Match Sofa player in the right sidebar so that you can listen to Test Match Sofa while you’re on this site. When there isn’t a match, it plays highlights. One, will you use it? Two, does it affect the loading
Continue readingFriends Provident T20 – keeping the enthusiasm
< 1 minute read As Marcus Trescothick said after the first match: “One down; 15 to go.” We’ve written about how you can fight the effects of viewer burnout over at Cricinfo. It’s quite a short piece, you’ll be pleased to hear.
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< 1 minute read With England winning the World Twenty20 at about the time it went live, we forgot to point out this article we did for Cricinfo about momentum. We did two pieces for Cricinfo around that time. One we were quite proud of; the other we weren’t really. Having just read the
Continue readingAn apology to King Cricket readers
< 1 minute read We didn’t actually pay any attention to the cricket at all over the weekend. How should we be punished? By working as Michael Clarke’s ego masseur By working as South Africa’s actual masseur By having to share our lunch with Mark Cosgrove By being the person nominated to let Ian
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