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3 days ago · They hadn’t had much of a warm-up; hadn’t played first-class cricket on these shores since 2016; and England were increasingly hell-bent on imposing themselves. It had been a tough shift, in short, and they could be forgiven for imploding. King Cricket is an independent cricket site. Bringing you offbeat cricket writing and huge digressions ...
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Oct 9, 2024 · 3 minute read Send your match reports to [email protected]. 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.) Sam Blackledge attended day two of this year’s England v.
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Sep 9, 2024 · 2 minute read The first Test between Pakistan and England starts on Monday – a somewhat jarring fact, given that most of the recent England news has centred on one-day internationals (both results and squads). It will be in Multan (again). To quickly recap: In 2022 England made their first Test tour to. Continue reading
Did you see… Mohammed Siraj make his way onto India’s top …
4 hours ago · He made two runs, which – until number 11 Mohammed Siraj entered the scene – would have been enough to earn him a joint ‘top innings run-scorers’ podium position. Rishabh Pant made 20 (after being dropped on 7), Yashasvi Jaiswal made 13 and Kuldeep Yadav was the other big success story with 2. Alas, Rohit and Kuldeep’s joint third ...
The seven phases of the 2024 County Championship - King Cricket
Apr 3, 2024 · Phase 2: The Kookaburra Ball Part 1. They used the swing-and-seam-unfriendly Kookaburra ball instead of the Dukes ball for two rounds of the County Championship last year. This year they’re going to have two blocks of Kookaburra – one in April or possibly May and another in that outro part of the season where everything switches to red ball ...
Pretty sure that was a fantastic Ashes, but what do you actually ...
Jul 31, 2023 · What do you actually remember of it? The series itself resulted in a 2-2 Ashes retention for Australia. This seems to us no more or less fair an outcome than several alternative scorelines. We’d quibble with a 5-0 to either side, but anything between 3-1 for one side and 3-1 for the other wouldn’t have felt too colossal a miscarriage of ...
A report from the first day of the Hundred at the Oval - King …
Aug 23, 2021 · A report from the first day of the Hundred at the Oval. Posted by King Cricket. 4 minute read. This is our second match report from the inaugural season of the Hundred. Here’s the first. King Cricket match reports focus on what it was like to be at the game – not the match itself. Miriam writes….
Failing failure Steve Smith to hide down the order after abject …
3 days ago · October 14, 2024 Australia. Failing failure Steve Smith to hide down the order after abject failure as Test opener. Posted by King Cricket. 2minute read. Steve Smith’s cowardly plea to be protected from the new ball has been meekly granted by Australia’s spineless management team, less than a year after he persuaded them he really wanted to ...
Root and Silverwood have the Jack Leach that they created
Dec 10, 2021 · Root and Silverwood have the Jack Leach that they created. The England Test team run by Joe Root and Chris Silverwood is not big on picking spinners. It is even less big on picking Jack Leach. A rare appearance in the first Ashes Test saw the left-armer get walloped, so how comfortable will the two head honchos be about picking him again?
An England v Australia Oval Test preview with Rick Dangerous
Jul 26, 2023 · It's late July and that of course means the end of the Test summer. With no more England men's fixtures scheduled until the tour of India from the end of January 2024, you should probably try and make the most of the Oval Test. The nights are drawing in, as Prince Prefab messaged to tell