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kingcricket.co.uk - 11 hours ago
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Dapper Dan writes: My day began as most
of my days have begun recently: Girlfriend’s alarm goes...
off at 6.15am, she gets up, goes in shower, I go back to sleep. Girlfriend leaves for work approximately 7.15am, wakes me up to say goodbye, I go back to sleep. Sunlight in bedroom wakes me up ...
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kingcricket.co.uk - 27 hours ago
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We were supposed to review this ages ago.
Note to publishers: don't push cricket stuff during the...
Ashes. We know it's the cricket Christmas, but everyone's a bit busy. Ask Bearders is subtitled Answers to the World's Most Challenging Cricket Questions. It's a compilation of Bill Frindall's ...
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Ask Bearders by Bill Frindall | book review
kingcricket.co.uk - 35 hours ago
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When England took the fourth wicket of what
seemed like a mesmerisingly unstrenuous dismantling of the South...
African batting line-up, we wondered where the real South Africa were. Mark Boucher at six? Where was the breathtaking conservatism for which South African cricket is so renowned? Think ...
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Mark Boucher at six? This isn’t South Africa
kingcricket.co.uk - 2 days ago
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It's good if it's your side that's won,
but if you're impartial, it means that a Test...
has been one-sided. Australia's innings victory over West Indies also raises uncomfortable and unwelcome questions about the future of the West Indies as a Test team, even if their best player, Adrian Barath, ...
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Innings victories in cricket – good or bad?
kingcricket.co.uk - 3 days ago
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We didn't see Adrian Barath's hundred against an
Australia bowling attack that we feel professionally obliged to...
describe as 'rampant'. Was it any good? Brian Lara though Barath was some prospect when he saw him batting in the nets, aged 11. Being as Barath's 19 now, he must have been dossing ...
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Adrian Barath hits a hundred against Australia on his debut
kingcricket.co.uk - 4 days ago
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Yes, it's another lazy Friday morning non-post. We've
written something for Cricinfo which you could generously say...
poked fun at the English attitude to leg spinners and cricket's newfound love of variation and innovation. More truthfully, you could describe it as a big pile of lies. It's a ...
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Cricinfo article about variation in bowling and English ...
kingcricket.co.uk - 5 days ago
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The big names are generally old bastards. Who's
next? Ross Taylor, New Zealand, age 25 Ross Taylor...
tends to look like he's the man who's going to win the match for New Zealand shortly before doing something slightly spacky. Pretty soon those fifties will become hundreds and those hundreds will ...
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The five best batsmen over the next five years
kingcricket.co.uk - 6 days ago
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You all think that you've got nothing to
say about Mohammad Asif - but you have. You...
wouldn't have been able to stop yourself from commenting if we'd actually said what we meant to say. International cricket is like being stuck in a shit bar that's got too much chrome in ...
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Order the Mohammad Asif if you ever get served
kingcricket.co.uk - 6 days ago
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If you like cricket, as opposed to just
enjoying boundaries, it's been a tough decade or so....
We're always on the lookout for bowlers who can redress the balance and actually make life difficult for batsmen. Very few are able to do that. A few years ago, we got quite excited ...
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Mohammad Asif will just have to do
kingcricket.co.uk - 7 days ago
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The Wii version of Ashes Cricket 2009 is
quite different from other formats. Having played both, we'd...
also say it was worse. Batting technique Don't imagine that you'll be playing hooks and drives. What you will actually be doing is carrying out a pendulous swing as if you're putting a golf ...
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Ashes Cricket 2009 Wii review
kingcricket.co.uk - 8 days ago
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England are going to have to watch this.
It's not deliberate, but if you had to design...
some tactics to erode a player's confidence, what they're doing to Adil Rashid might be what you'd come up with. In the summer, Rashid started the one-day series against Australia well and promptly got ...
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Adil Rashid treated like an English leg spinner
kingcricket.co.uk - 9 days ago
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We were struck that England actually had a
good batting line-up today; one with rare solidity. With...
Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott opening, England have grown-ups at the top of the order. There's a dependable feel about both of them and the rest of the line-up hangs off that. In the middle ...
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Paul Collingwood part of a proper England one-day ...
kingcricket.co.uk - 11 days ago
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Jimmy Anderson's been signed up by everyone's favourite
overexposed cricket bat brand, Mongoose. All you need to...
know is that the designer thinks that Anderson's bowling is "an ideal brand fit for Mongoose". Imagine what state your soul would be in if you worked somewhere where people ...
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Jimmy Anderson sullied by marketing
kingcricket.co.uk - 11 days ago
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We're generally of the opinion that despite reading
a website written by us, you wouldn't actually be...
that interested in anything we've written, so by and large we don't tell you about any of it. That said, we're feeling lazy and can't be arsed doing a proper update, so we'll point ...
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England’s billion-and-one development squads and some ...
kingcricket.co.uk - 12 days ago
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After Mahela Jayawardene recorded his sixth Test double
hundred, it was tempting to wonder whether he ever...
gets bored. We get bored very, very easily. We get bored midway through unlocking our front door and that takes less than five seconds. The only exception to this is rail travel, where ...
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Mahela Jayawardene does not get bored
kingcricket.co.uk - 13 days ago
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We did a preview of Howzat a few
weeks ago. Just to let you know, it's live...
now, so you can give it a go for yourselves. It's free, if that's what you're wondering. Play Howzat and let us know what you think.
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Howzat internet cricket game launched
kingcricket.co.uk - 13 days ago
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We'd sooner Shakib Al Hasan had signed for
a first division county, but don't underestimate the significance...
of a Bangladeshi clambering aboard the treadmill. It means that while they might be three-and-a-half years late, Worcestershire have cottoned on to the fact that this is a good player - ...
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Shakib signs for crap second division county
kingcricket.co.uk - 14 days ago
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Sri Lanka have searched long and hard and
now they've finally found a replacement for Warnakulasuriya Patabendige...
Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas. Step forward Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara, who opened the bowling against India yesterday. If only his mother were still ...
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Sri Lanka replace Chaminda Vaas
kingcricket.co.uk - 14 days ago
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Did anyone outside India really think that Rahul
Dravid should have been dropped at any point during...
his relatively prolonged spell of poor form? We certainly didn't. It's Rahul Dravid. Looking back now, it seems that run of poor form ended about this time last year in Mohali when he hit ...
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Rahul Dravid still has some runs to score
kingcricket.co.uk - 15 days ago
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England just couldn't quite get the 85 runs
they needed off the final ball. However, while we...
give Loots Bosman and Graeme Smith enormous credit for the faultlessness of their hitting, South Africa's monumental Twenty20 total of 241 was perhaps one step too close to slogging. We defend Twenty20 ...
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Cow corner cricket – Twenty20 matches that push the ...







