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5 days ago · 2 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 …
England - King Cricket
Oct 24, 2024 · 3 minute read “Room for improvement” has become such a desirable attribute among England players that a “high ceiling” now feels like almost a mandatory requirement for selection. It’s instructive then to remember how England’s greatest ever white ball batter, Jos Buttler, came into the national side with almost zero headroom.
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 ...
The 2024 King Cricket Essentials Calendar
Jan 8, 2024 · There's too much cricket. You have to prioritise. Below is our month-by-month guide to the series and tournaments we’ll (most likely) be focusing on in the coming year. Essentials? It's pretty widely accepted now that the cricket calendar is oversaturated. You can either sit back and take what comes each day, or you can prioritise
Did you see… Jos Buttler’s biggest six?
4 days ago · Jos Buttler’s biggest six? “Room for improvement” has become such a desirable attribute among England players that a “high ceiling” now feels like almost a mandatory requirement for selection. It’s instructive then to remember how England’s greatest ever white ball batter, Jos Buttler, came into the national side with almost zero ...
News - King Cricket
Oct 30, 2024 · 2 minute read After 18 home series victories in a row, India have been beaten by New Zealand. The tourists achieved this seemingly-impossible feat exactly how you’d imagine – by plopping cricketers who haven’t really been playing much into their team and asking them to immediately decimate India’s batting line-up. If you’re not.
Features - King Cricket
Aug 27, 2024 · 4 minute read Loads of people have been picked for England since James Anderson made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in May 2003. This XI comprises some of the least successful – plus Jimmy himself. Just imagine the exasperated head shaking! 1. Adam Lyth – 265 Test runs at 20.38 Surprisingly few of.
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 ...
County cricket | King Cricket
Sep 24, 2024 · 2 minute read County Championship first division status is crossing the Pennines from Lancashire to Yorkshire and has now made it to, ooh, let’s say Todmorden. It just passed second division status going the other way. (What we’re saying here is that Lancashire have been relegated and Yorkshire have been promoted.)
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