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网页6 天之前 · 3 minute read Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. 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.
Dan Worrall unfazed by Durham’s ‘night of the watchers’
网页2 天之前 · With just a couple of overs remaining in the day, Durham sent out Callum Parkinson – who had batted at eight in the first innings – to face the first ball. Callum Parkinson did not survive that first ball. This was not entirely surprising. Dan Worrall tends to make light work of specialist opening batters. Confronted with a tail-ender and ...
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网页2024年9月6日 · 4 minute read Before this third Test, Sri Lanka had already lost the series. 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.
Worrall, Burns, Jennings, Gregory – the Not-Quite-England players ...
网页4 天之前 · If you're in charge of a county cricket club and you want to deliver on-field success, the last thing you want to do is produce England players. If you want to do well in the County Championship, your goal should be to develop (or hire) as many Not-Quite-England-Players as you possibly can. This is something
Fast bowling: County cricket’s diesels and the unprepared Test …
网页2022年1月10日 · If you watch Test cricket, 140km/h is not especially remarkable and yet County Championship batters are experiencing bowling of this speed almost never. That ‘balls above 140km/h’ percentage jumps to 16% for Test matches as a whole and to 35% for Test matches in Australia. If you’re a top-order county batter called up for the Ashes, you ...
Five talking points after England’s fourth-ever Test win in Pakistan ...
网页The second Test was "a differently played game" according to Ben Stokes. It still resulted in England winning in Pakistan though, which is not a thing that had happened too often until this month. The match has left us with quite a few half-baked thoughts rolling around our largely empty head. Rather than waiting for
Easy-to-cancel tours and the mindless narrowing of cricket’s …
网页2021年9月22日 · 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
A report from the first day of the Hundred at the Oval - King …
网页2021年8月23日 · 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….
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网页2024年9月2日 · 2 minute read Josh Hull is only the second left-arm seamer to play a Test for England since Ryan Sidebottom in 2010. 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,
Five fiendishly difficult questions for England on their West Indies …
网页2022年2月25日 · England’s tour of the West Indies gets underway on Tuesday with the hotly-anticipated match against TBA. Three Test matches follow during which we may or may not get answers to these five fiendishly difficult questions. (1) Is this a ‘development tour’ or not? Development tour? Who said ‘development …
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