3 minute read Five years ago, we picked out five batsmen, four all-rounders and five bowlers who we thought would be the best over the next five-year period. Let’s have a look at how wrong we were. Batsmen Here’s who we picked. Let’s look at their records at the point at which we
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A positive, aggressive brand of cricket
< 1 minute read There’s definitely an opening for an opportunistic side to play a negative, attritional brand of cricket during this World Cup. That approach is so rare, the opposition won’t know what has limply and boringly hit them. More about this in the form of a satirical news report over at Cricinfo.
Continue readingNext week on King Cricket…
< 1 minute read There’s going to be relatively little news coverage on here next week. And by ‘relatively little’ we actually mean none. We’ve decided we need to graze in the outfield for a few days so that we can come back and hit the deck hard come the World Cup. Clearly you’re
Continue readingThe best official cricket songs in the world… ever!
< 1 minute read We know that you’re all looking forward to hearing the official World Cup song, even if it’s inevitable that it will fall some way short of this masterpiece. We’ve looked back on some of the other great official cricket songs from down the years for All Out Cricket. They include
Continue readingYou’re probably wondering why we haven’t written about Inzamam-ul-Haq this week
< 1 minute read The answer is because Pakistan aren’t playing. Also, he retired seven years ago. Fortunately, our Kings of Cricket feature over at All Out Cricket helps us overcome these minor hurdles as we’re allowed to write about pretty much anyone we like. Last week, we chose Inzy for his ‘souplesse’ as
Continue readingHow to captain an international cricket team
< 1 minute read In light of the Conjoined Lord Megachiefs of Gold both being captains of their respective nations, here’s a thing about captaincy which we’d actually forgotten we’d written. For international captaincy, we’d also add another piece of advice to that article: Do exactly what Shane Warne says (but be innovative). Doing
Continue readingLiquids, solids, bats, balls AND RELIGION
< 1 minute read Plenty going on in the various Boxing Day Tests, but we can’t be arsed writing a single word about any of them. We’re far too busy actually enjoying them, if we’re honest. Something would have to make way to give us time to write and these liquids and solids won’t
Continue readingMuralimania and English cricket’s monomania
2 minute read Today we’re going to direct you towards two pieces of ours which appeared outside the kingdom. First up, our latest King of Cricket is Murali. Don’t worry, it ain’t all numbers. It’s about the joints, the graft and the batting really. Secondly, last week’s Cricinfo piece, entitled English cricket rocked
Continue readingBreaking Kemar Roach news
< 1 minute read His daughter’s called Kemaria. It’s okay to laugh because she didn’t choose the name herself. This and more in our latest Twitter round-up over at Cricinfo.
Continue readingSpeaking of Pakistan…
< 1 minute read Because surely you are. Australia are 136-5 in reply to Pakistan’s 570-6 at the time of writing. Younis Khan is averaging over 200 in the series. Unless this current partnership really goes somewhere, that’s better than Australia’s top six combined. But never mind unheralded Pakistani bowlers ripping through top Test
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