Tag: King Cricket

< 1 minute readThere are people who only read this site for the comments. That’s fair enough. Really the posts are just pegs to hang the comments off. Sometimes we’re tempted to just put up a title on its own as that’s all that’s really needed. However, what you, the reader, often miss

< 1 minute readWe’re in Portugal, but we’ve got stuff ready for the week ahead. There’s a cricket bat in an unusual place, two match reports and an email that we quite liked and decided to turn into a post, even though it’s a bit dated now. On a side note, we just

< 1 minute readWe did another piece for Cricinfo. It’s about how they could improve the Lord’s atmosphere for Twenty20 matches. It’s okay – possibly even a 7/10 – but the important part is that we’ve managed to squeeze a reference to wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men into an article on a

< 1 minute readRemember Top Trumps? Course you do. Picking a category and hoping that the number on your card’s higher than the number on your opponent’s card. What could be more thrilling? We’ve got cricket Top Trumps on the site now. Repetitive and totally unsociable – it’s the perfect King Cricket game.

< 1 minute readWe massively enjoyed reading about the cutting of dangling seatbelts by stalkers and the breaking of greenhouses with airborne gnomes on our return. We were also relieved to see that some of you took the trouble to point out news that we’d missed in the full knowledge that we weren’t

< 1 minute readWe’re going away for a week. We’ve written stuff to appear while we’re away, like usual. You can insult us in our absence, like usual. An occasional visitor can point out some major cricket news that we haven’t covered, like usual. And one of you can leave an insulting comment

< 1 minute readLaurence Elderbrook has one more match left this season. We were quite pleased when his reports were met with initial apathy, because the man’s a bell-end and we wanted to get rid of him. Unfortunately, some of you seem to have warmed to him, so we’re having to find a

< 1 minute readWe’re doing some writing on The Wisden Cricketer website as part of our Care in the Community rehabilitation scheme. It’s okay – we’re being supervised. The Wisden Cricketer is a friend to cricket blogs, so we feel obliged to link to their home page as well as our first blog

< 1 minute readJust to let you all know, we’ve changed our email address to kingcricket@hotmail.co.uk. Our old email provider, Bluebottle, said we had to start paying for their service. They gave us 72 hours notice. Any of the following will be more than welcome at the new address: (1) Match reports. Keep