King Cricket

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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...

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Pakistan have decided that actually, with the benefit of hindsight, half of the players they picked for the first Test shouldn’t have even been in the squad. The apparently wrong calls for that match span the captain, the wicketkeeper, the opening batter and half the bowling attack – one of whom took a five-for the only time Pakistan bowled.

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The Pakistan Cricket Board often seems perfectly geared towards getting the absolute least out of its players. It’s been such a colossally effective talent erosion machine in recent years, you wonder whether the guy running it should really be attempting it in his spare time when he’s already working 9 to 5 at something else.

Oh for ...

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Will Ollie Robinson actually manage to play two Tests in a row? The England Test team has been a swirling maelstrom of madness all summer long – maybe that will be the next improbable development.

As for the most recent England Test team development, its improbability lies only in how probable it felt. Of course someone fro...

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Pakistan have had plenty of fast bowlers with a touch of magic about them over the years. Unfortunately, that kind of transcendence would require an additional supernatural feat these days, because any act of high pace sorcery would first necessitate the shape-shifting transformation of a military-medium dobbler.

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