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Month: December 2019

December 31, 2019 New Zealand

Neil Wagner: Lord Megachief of Gold 2019

3 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.

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December 24, 2019 Australia / England / New Zealand / South Africa

The real highlights of the 2019 Boxing Day Tests

4 minute readFor clarity and brevity: yes, this is the through-the-Boxing-Day-Tests thread. This article will (probably) be updated (semi) regularly as the South Africa v England and Australia v New Zealand matches progress.

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December 19, 2019 England

Can you name England’s seven walk-on part England spinners of the 2010s?

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December 19, 2019 Extras

England go Wagner, Azhar Ali enjoys captaincy and Pat Cummins makes many crores | Mop-up of the day

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December 18, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred: Does a two-and-a-half minute break in a game of cricket actually constitute a ‘time-out’?

2 minute read

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December 17, 2019 Extras

AB de Villiers Retirement Watch, emails and answers | Mop-up of the day

2 minute read

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December 14, 2019 England

Is Ben Foakes being treated fairly by England?

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December 10, 2019 Regulars

A cricket ball in Netflix’s Designated Survivor

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Hoopy writes: After deciding I was going to waste a Saturday between mowing the lawn, chatting shit to mates, finishing Borderlands 2 (again) and watching telly, I came up with this. It’s a scene from

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December 9, 2019 Extras

The King Cricket Retired Cricketer From Several Years Back Crossword

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December 7, 2019 England

Jonny Bairstow’s back

2 minute read

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