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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.
August 15, 2007 Extras

Welcome to the new all-singing, all-dancing King Cricket

< 1 minute readWe never sing. We never dance. What do you think then? You think that it’s ‘much the same’ don’t you? You’d be right. Why not test out the comments though by offering a thought or two. Ideally not all of those thoughts would be negative, but we’re man enough to

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  2. Andy on So who’s in England’s first choice Ashes bowling attack then?August 8, 2025

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