< 1 minute readWe originally pitched The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments as The 52 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments in honour of Rob Key’s half century in the 2002 Boxing Day Test that so triumphantly denied Australia an innings victory and forced them to bat a second time. Alas, Affirm Press fought us
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2 minute readSand drawing is best left to the ni-Vanuatu. You want to make a line that people will pay attention to, etch it in stone or something. This time last year, England were knocked out of the T20 World Cup in the group stages. Their final match, against the West Indies,
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< 1 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Chuck writes… Malahide, cricket and I can only mean two
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2 minute readNewer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer, Dan Liebke, because we haven’t actually produced any episodes in almost two years. The sizeable gap came about because we’ve been spending all of our podcasting time writing a book together instead – The 50
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3 minute readThere are ways, dude. You don’t wanna know about it. Hell, he can get you the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined by three o’clock this afternoon. There are pluses and minuses to the coaching of Peter Moores, who has just taken Nottinghamshire to the 2025 County Championship title. It’s just
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4 minute readThere is no Ashes tour moment quite so clean as the naming of the squad when the wheels are still on and everyone’s fully fit – everyone that is except for Ben Stokes (shoulder), Will Jacks (broken finger) and Mark Wood (most joints). Jacks is for us the most noteworthy
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2 minute readWhat will Notts’ and Surrey’s best bowlers do this week with the County Championship on the line? One thing they won’t do is play cricket. Mid September is something of a seasonal warzone. Meterologists say it’s autumn, while astronomers say you’ve still got a week or two of summer until
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2 minute readLook, every publication’s got its own way of covering Pat Cummins’ back injury and its possible impact on his participation in the Ashes. This is ours. (For what it’s worth, we have long suspected that for all the column inches devoted to them both, Cummins and Ben Stokes won’t be
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2 minute readThe draw is an unloved thing. No-one sings songs about finishing level because you’ve run out of time. You don’t get impassioned speeches of the oeuvre, ‘maybe it’ll rain this afternoon and we’ll get away with this one’. But draws are still important – some years more than others. Back
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3 minute readYou’re no doubt aware that the counties are currently having a big old argument about how to alter the County Championship for future seasons. (And if you aren’t already aware, you’d surely assume that was the case anyway, because when have they not been arguing about that?) It’s been said
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