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Continue readingAuthor: King Cricket
Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
Links to some non-cricket writing and a bit more background here.
Which of Australia’s three banned ball-tamperers is being the most annoying (and which of them is being the least annoying)?
3 minute readThe Tamperer was an Italian dance music act. They had a number one with Feel It. The most memorable element of Feel It was that the bridge section (there wasn’t really a chorus) went: “What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?” There you go. There’s a nice
Continue readingJason Holder: Lord Megachief of Gold 2018
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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Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?
7 minute readThe story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a
Continue readingCameron Bancroft’s very long open letter, Festivus wishes and entirely unnecessary notification of upcoming fixtures
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Continue readingThe angry exchange between Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja basically just ends up comical once it’s been translated
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