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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.
November 20, 2018 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

On Cricket by Mike Brearley – book review

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November 17, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Keaton Jennings has become shit-hot at dropping catches

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November 16, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Does sweeping damn near everything actually work?

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November 15, 2018 South Africa / West Indies

South Africa just choked in a major tournament and no-one seems to be going on about it

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November 14, 2018 England

If we no longer trust the team selection experts, it’s time to submit ourselves to the wisdom of the hat

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November 13, 2018 England

If England are desperately in need of a mediocre number six batsman then yes, Jonny Bairstow should definitely give up the wicketkeeping gloves

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November 9, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

It ends for Rangana Herath the way it will end for all of us – sprawled on our faces in defeat

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November 8, 2018 England

Keaton Jennings has a secret and he doesn’t want anyone reliant on free-to-air cricket coverage to uncover it

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November 8, 2018 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff

2 minute readOur Books to read at the cricket? feature involves readers (let’s be honest, mostly Ged) trying to work out whether or not books are suitable for reading between balls and overs when attending a cricket match. Regular correspondent Ged Ladd writes: I was reminded of this wonderful little book, How

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November 7, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Sam Curran was England’s second-choice pace bowler for this Test match and that seems pretty significant

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  1. King Cricket on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 16, 2025

    Very best wishes to Daisy, Ged. That story of holing up in a car desperately following a tight finish is…

  2. King Cricket on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 16, 2025

    Nine bowlers. And he still didn't bring himself on.

  3. Ged Ladd on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 16, 2025

    A Duchess-oriented match report was reported on this site quite recently: https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ged-ladd-co-v-childrens-society-xi-match-report-wagon-wheel/2021/04/14/

  4. Ged Ladd on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 16, 2025

    In other news, the Duchess of Castlebar is no more. My eulogy included one favourite cricket story that ahs been…

  5. sam on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 16, 2025

    If they both turn out like their fathers, one of them will end up a very pleasant, modest and and…

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket
  • Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being
  • Is Winter (the cat) truly indifferent to cricket?

RSS Match reports

  • Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match report
  • England v New Zealand at the Oval in 1999 – a match report
  • Some bloke catching another bloke in a 2001 charity match (a match report)

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

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  • A cricket bat in a Pigbag video
  • A Spartan cricket bat in a UK politics documentary

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