Jarrod Kimber

London

Writer at Freelance

Analyst at talkSPORT

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

Articles

Rohit Sharma retires from Tests

1 week ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

We are offering a 30% off deal for The Art of Batting. Just click this link and use the code GOODAREAS30 at checkout. This works for orders and pre-orders. It’s a global discount, so it will work across Australia, Canada, India, UK and US sites. Nohit Sharma. That is not what you want to be referred to when a short time before Viv Richards has said you could be one of the best batters in the world. And you aren’t. At least, you’re stunted. Kind of lost down the order, not sure of what to do.
IPL 2025: Power Rankings - Episode 6

1 week ago | goodareas.co | Shayan Ahmad Khan |Jarrod Kimber

We are offering a 30% off deal for Art of Batting. Just click this link and use the code GOODAREAS30 at checkout. This works for orders and pre-orders. It’s a global discount, so it will work across Australia, Canada, India, UK and US sites. I regret to inform you that this is the last power list of the season. So, let’s go out with a bang. And by that I mean, we finally have enough info to make them semi-accurate. Which is the aim, I think. For the last time, this is not a points table.
What makes the Gujarat Titans top three so good?

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

We are offering a 30% off deal for Art of Batting. Just click this link and use the code GOODAREAS30 at checkout. This works for orders and pre-orders. It’s a global discount, so it will work across Australia, Canada, India, UK and US sites. What if I told you that Gujarat were the best team in terms of scoring quickly, and also not being dismissed? It sounds like a logic puzzle you see someone show on Instagram. Like, how can a team not be dismissed, and also smash the fresh hell out of the ball?
IPL 2025: Power Rankings - Episode 5

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

We are offering a 30% off deal for Art of Batting. Just click this link and use the code GOODAREAS30 at checkout. This works for orders and pre-orders. It’s a global discount, so it will work across Australia, Canada, India, UK and US sites. We are finally down at the pointy end of the season, where everyone who isn’t a KKR fan is worried about their net run rate. And for the first time, there is finally a bit of sense happening on the table.
Why doesn't Rohit make runs in the IPL?

4 weeks ago | goodareas.co | Jarrod Kimber

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Virender Sehwag - the first surgeon of slog

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.