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WEB2 days ago · At 6ft 7in, he’s tall too. These are very attractive qualities which Hull has had to make zero effort to develop. Confidence is a funny thing. A lot of intelligent, pragmatic, King Cricket is an independent cricket site. Bringing you offbeat cricket writing and huge digressions since 2006.
Let’s pick the All-Time Greatest Middle-Aged XI
WEB5 hours ago · So here’s our All-Time Greatest Middle-Aged XI. Unless otherwise stated, stats are for matches played after the age of 35. 1. Graham Gooch – 4,563 runs at 48.54 (12 hundreds) No middle-aged person has made more Test runs than Goochie and 3,958 of them were made as opener.
The seven phases of the 2024 County Championship - King Cricket
WEBApr 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 …
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WEBSep 13, 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.
The 2024 King Cricket Essentials Calendar
WEBJan 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
Pretty sure that was a fantastic Ashes, but what do you actually ...
WEBJul 31, 2023 · My personal opinion is that it was over far too soon, as if someone was watching the highlights at 150%*. In fact that they could have continued playing for six more weeks (maybe three or four more Tests), and it still would have been finished before the first matchday of the CL, but because of the bloody Hundred100 , it has to end halfway through the season rather than continuing into the ...
India’s win over Bangladesh was magnificent – full credit to Ben …
WEB2 days ago · 3 minute read. You’ll have no doubt seen that India rushed to a Test victory over Bangladesh in roughly two days’ worth of cricket after only 35 overs were possible over the first three days. It was an incredible performance from the batting line-up in particular, hustling their way to 285-9 in 34.4 overs in their first innings to somehow ...
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WEBMay 30, 2024 · < 1 minute read If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to [email protected]. Balladeer writes… These are Mysie the calico and Winter the black cat. They joined the Balladeer household in June. They’re rather cute when they’re not kicking each other’s heads in or digging
Easy-to-cancel tours and the mindless narrowing of cricket’s …
WEBSep 22, 2021 · It's always been the case that some tours have been easier to cancel than others. Assorted pressures mean cancellations are coming thicker and faster at the minute. What are the implications of this? Earlier this month, we wrote that the threshold for binning the Old Trafford Test was lower than normal. In another year, that
Lancashire change County Championship divisions for the seventh …
WEB4 days ago · Lancashire change County Championship divisions for the seventh time in 13 seasons. 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 …