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Month: January 2018

January 4, 2018 Australia / England

Joe Root leaves 16 runs out there

< 1 minute readTime is meaningless. Although the sooner a cricketer can appreciate that, the better – so maybe time isn’t meaningless. The fifth Test moved forward almost as much in the last eight deliveries of the day as it had in the previous 483. England will have finished with a sense that

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January 2, 2018 Extras

Scandal, the Ashes and moaning about England – looking back on 2017 on King Cricket

3 minute readWe thought it might be fun/easy to look back on some of the more popular posts on this site from last year. Sometimes it’s surprising what draws people’s attention. (Sometimes it isn’t.) The first thing to say is that far and away the most popular page on this site, other

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January 1, 2018 England / Extras

James Anderson: Lord Megachief of Gold 2017

4 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over the previous calendar year. Here are all the winners. From a personal perspective, one of the great tragedies of modern Test cricket is that we don’t draw the curtains, switch

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