It was a marginal decision, but after referral to the DRS we can confirm that Alex Bowden’s superlative King Cricket takes our vote as the Reverse Sweep’s favourite cricket blog.
Like the great master Jack Hobbs himself, King Cricket scores freely and heavily in all types of conditions: whimsical humour, longevity (a blog veteran stretching all the way back to 2006), a keen eye, quantity and quality, originality and above all brevity.
Most of us fall into the ‘time poor’ category and King Cricket certainly doesn’t mince his words. Why write a great thesis when 200 words will do? More than any other cricket blog we’ve seen King Cricket understands this best. KC simply doesn’t do written diarrhoea (whatever that looks like).
This is probably the secret of its success as is the amusing and intrinsically self-deprecating English humour shining through such features as Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, the frankly bizarre Venn Diagrams and Match Reports (that aren’t really Match Reports).
If being a fan of the site means clicking on to it most week day mornings, then we are guilty as charged m’lud. Of all the blogs featured in our Top 20 Cricket blogs it is only King Cricket and cricket with balls that we click onto on an almost religious basis.
As we said at the start, the choice between these two was borderline, but in the end we decided to go with the former not because Alex is a fellow Englishman (although that probably helped), but when it comes down to it, he really detests Matthew Hayden.
And he’s hated Hayden almost since the day he started the blog – see old Hayden and new Hayden articles.
That pretty much sealed it.
You can find Alex on Twitter @TheKingsTweets, although when it comes to Tweeting, Alex doesn’t exactly fall into the prolific category.
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PS: Whilst the Reverse Sweep is busy packing up and moving back to Surrey from the South of France, we'll be counting down our Top 20 cricket blogs whilst we are away (so to speak)...
Bravo Sir, King Cricket, CWB & your good self are the three cricket blogs I always read.
Posted by: MartDawg | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 at 21:15
Worthy winner.
Posted by: Howe_zat | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 at 22:01
He deserved it. Great!
Posted by: Cardekho | Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:31
I prefer Cricket with Balls, if only because Jarrod don't have a problem referring to himself as "I", while Alex Bowden, like some others, keep insisting he's a "we".
Posted by: Erez Schatz | Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 14:27
Very true! Great post.
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I've been checking out your blog for some time now, and really like the content. Hope to continue to see some quality articles from you.
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