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November 26, 2025 Regulars

A cat finally being won over to cricket by the sheer ridiculousness of the Ashes

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. A P Webster writes… An Ashes series is often a time when those who have previously seemed indifferent to cricket, perhaps on multiple occasions – or maybe even exhibited active dislike for it

November 25, 2025 Australia / England

Infuriating inconsistency is also Ben Stokes’ England team’s superpower, by the way

3 minute readNo team likes being called inconsistent, but inconsistency cuts both ways. In a scenario where you’ve lost a Test match inside two days, ‘consistent’ is absolutely the last thing you want to be. More two-day defeats? No, thank you. After the first Ashes Test, England can console themselves that they

November 19, 2025 Australia / England

Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?

6 minute readSomewhat unusually, this first Test of the 2025/26 Ashes is in Perth. There’ll therefore be much talk about Australia surrendering the supposed advantage of kicking things off at the ‘Gabbatoir’ in Brisbane. Australia have certainly won a lot of first Ashes Tests at the Gabba, but our personal feeling is

November 18, 2025 Regulars

A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)

2 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Please consider putting the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. We like those ones. Co-author, Dan Liebke, sent us a photo of our book The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments next to a statue of Steve

November 14, 2025 Bangladesh / England / India / Ireland / South Africa

Jasprit Bumrah v four spinners, Bangladesh v Ireland, papal seal, Ashes filtration | Mop-up of the day

2 minute readThere’s a lot of focus on Test cricket that’s going to happen, but elsewhere in the world Test cricket is actually already underway (or has recently finished). India v South Africa Over in Kolkata, a pretty big match: the reigning world Test champions versus the sport’s biggest nation at one

November 13, 2025 Australia / England

Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes Test

2 minute read“I hear you’re England’s spin bowler now, Joe. How did you get interested in that type of thing? Should we all be England’s spin bowler now? What’s the official line?“ England’s perfunctory ‘tour match’ against England Lions is underway and all is becoming clearer, team selection-wise. Ollie Pope appears to

November 11, 2025 Australia / England

Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2

3 minute readA few more weeks of England players walking through airports and we’ll have a full XI of new nicknames. After kicking off with Cocky Captain Complainer last week, the West Australian has now seen fit to greet Joe Root by renaming him ‘Average Joe’ because his record in Australia is

November 6, 2025 Australia / England / Features

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

2 minute readOur book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, has now been officially released. You can (and should) buy it – it’s very funny. We can say that without being immodest because for all you know we might be solely referring to the bits co-author Dan Liebke wrote. (We’re not. Our

November 5, 2025 Australia / England

“Cocky Captain Complainer” and inadvisable fart-retention – Ashes Nonsense Watch | Part 1

2 minute readRight. Looks like we’re properly underway when it comes to people talking bollocks about the Ashes, so we may as well start reporting on it. If you write a book about the Ashes with an Australian, one of the things you both notice is that you tend to have very

November 3, 2025 Australia / India / South Africa

The “scary” future of women’s cricket? Maybe just a different flavour of healthy rejuvenating apocalypse

3 minute readIndia’s World Cup win seems to have ushered in visions of a new era of endless dominance for the winners. Alex Hartley and Ian Bishop both used the word ‘scary’ in reference to the team’s potential – but honestly, what’s to be scared of here? These expectations for the future

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Well we've already had Meowcus Trescattick. https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/cat-renounces-indifference-to-cricket/2009/01/14/

Meowin' Ali Mike Hissy David Hissy Michael Catspawicz Nathan Lion

Simon Catich Mike Catting Monty Pawnesar Bill Clawry Arthur Meowrris

Just a bit KC. A record defeat for India. Nice to see Mr Markram almost getting a 10-for (that will…

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?

Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?

A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

A cat finally being won over to cricket by the sheer ridiculousness of the Ashes

Infuriating inconsistency is also Ben Stokes’ England team’s superpower, by the way

Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?

A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)

Jasprit Bumrah v four spinners, Bangladesh v Ireland, papal seal, Ashes filtration | Mop-up of the day

Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes Test

Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

“Cocky Captain Complainer” and inadvisable fart-retention – Ashes Nonsense Watch | Part 1

The “scary” future of women’s cricket? Maybe just a different flavour of healthy rejuvenating apocalypse