Jarrod Kimber

London

Writer at Freelance

Analyst at talkSPORT

Australian who shouts. About cricket mostly. 🎥 YouTube, 🎙Red Inker, and 📖 emailer.

Articles

Why doesn't Rohit make runs in the IPL?

1 week ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

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Virender Sehwag - the first surgeon of slog

2 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Shayan Ahmad Khan |Jarrod Kimber |Varun Alvakonda

Everything is about context. If you hear a Cradle of Filth song in a dark and dingy club on the dodgy side of town, it seems right. If you are in a pharmacy buying some tissues and you hear:“Maleficent in dusky roseGathered satin lapped Her breastsLike blood upon the snowA tourniquet of Topaz.”It is going to stick out. Context. When Virender Sehwag played in Test cricket it stuck out. No one had attacked that hard at the top before.
The new sounds of Rashid Khan

2 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

There are two noises you hear a lot in T20 cricket. A loud appeal, or a celebration of the ball hitting the stumps. It happened for the Strikers, Afghanistan, Tridents, Victorians, Durban Heat, Gujarat Titans, Kabul Zwanan, Qalandars, Patriots, SRH, Sussex, Rockets and two MI franchises on separate continents. Those are just the ones that are easy to remember. Since 2016, Rashid Khan has been bowling in T20 cricket around the world, and hitting pads or stumps more than anyone else.
IPL 2025: Power Rankings - Episode 2

2 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber |Shayan Ahmad Khan

A new power rankings, and it’s been another week in which the highly rated teams have decided to have a sleep in. But some of the sides down in our expectations are shining. As always, the power rankings don't represent the points table, but really are passed down to us by golden pigeons who look at strength of schedule, future games, who you beat and how, and then make it all up before crapping on us as they fly away. Good Areas is a reader-supported publication.
The old three-headed monster for KKR

3 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

KKR’s top order is a three-headed monster from the island of misfit toys. You have three men who are old, really quite old. None are near their prime, or maybe one's at like the back end of theirs. None really compliment each other all that well. In fact, there are two left-handers together. It's like a thought experiment you come up with 17 beers into the night. It's KKR, yelling into the abyss, hoping that someone will call back to them.
The short history of two men out

3 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

Jonathan Wilson has a book called Inverting the Pyramid. It's all about how football formations have changed over time. In American football, they give teenagers thick folders full of plays to remember for each game. These two sports absolutely fetishize this sort of stuff. In cricket, we kind of ignore the changes in our field. But I want to give you a brief history of how fields have changed in limited-overs cricket. The history of the wagon wheel essentially tells us where the fielders are not.
Is cricket about to be taken over?

4 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

Nobody runs cricket. If you've followed me for any period of time, you will know that this is my favourite phrase in cricket. Actually, maybe it's my least favourite phrase, but I use it a lot. If you follow the podcast, almost anytime a news story comes up, I'm going to be talking about this. When Ben Stokes would say things like, ‘Oh, someone's really gotta fix this’. I'm sorry Ben, nobody runs cricket.
Who will win IPL 2025?

1 month ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

There are millions of dollars coming into the markets, letting us know who will win the IPL, or at least who certain people with large bets and small bets think will win. So I wanted to look at each side and work out which odds made sense, and which ones don’t really hold up. Let's start with Lucknow Super Giants. What's with all the left-handers? It feels like there's a lot of them. Is it too many? I don't know. Can you have too many left-handers?
The grand Saudi Arabia takeover of cricket

1 month ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

You probably don't know who Neil Maxwell is. In fact, just by hearing the name Maxwell on a cricket video, you probably have another face that's coming up. This was a different old man. Someone who struggled a lot playing cricket in the 90s, mostly in domestic cricket. He played for New South Wales, he played for Victoria, and then he went on to actually be a star for Fiji. But if you've heard of him recently, there's probably two reasons.
Even when India win, they can't win

1 month ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

We have come to a point in cricket where no one actually believes the coin toss anymore. Deciding who bats or bowls first should be as simple as flipping it in the air and then the winning captain deciding. But at the 2023 World Cup, there was a conspiracy that the tosses were rigged because India kept winning them. This isn’t just people online, even some in the game were asking the question. Is India’s coin actually rigged? Is it weighted more to one side?