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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.
April 29, 2020 Features

Which Test cricketer was the biggest burden to their side?

6 minute readNot every cricketer is great, or good, or useful. This begs a question. Who routinely contributed the least to their team? Which Test cricketer was the biggest burden? Back in November, we took a look at the worst Test bowling averages of all time. As you might imagine, quite a

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April 28, 2020 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

< 1 minute readHave you tried to read summat while at a cricket match? Let us know how it went at king@kingcricket.co.uk Edwardian writes: This was the day Alastair Cook scored his final Test century. I was at Lord’s to watch Middlesex play Kent and also to meet up with regular King Cricket

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April 25, 2020 Extras

Live cricket’s great and all – but so’s all this stuff

3 minute readA few days ago, we mentioned on Twitter that we aren’t likely to run out of things to write about for as long as the whole history of Test cricket has still happened. You may have noticed we’ve been doing a few more features of late and that’s just fine

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April 23, 2020 Regulars

A copy of Wisden (and more) in A Clockwork Orange

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Wisden makes a cameo appearance in A Clockwork Orange. Thanks to Andrew for pointing this out to us via Twitter. A Clockwork Orange

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April 20, 2020 Match report

Straight Outta the Upper Compton – a match report

3 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.) Regular match reporter Ged Ladd titled this particular missive ‘The

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April 17, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day five: England and Australia slowly build all-time thriller

4 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) England (19-0 and

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April 16, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day four: Australia refuse to be rushed

3 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) England (313-7) trail

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April 15, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day three: Australia plug away

4 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) England (66-0) trail

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April 14, 2020 Australia / England

The 1990s-est Ashes, day two: Hard toil for England bowlers

3 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) Australia are 306-5.

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April 13, 2020 Australia / England

Sim Nineties: the 1990s-est Ashes – day one

5 minute readLast week we picked our 1990s-est England team and our 1990s-est Australia team. This week we’re pitting them against each other in a one-off exhibition Test match with the aid of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. (This follows Sim Series: Sri Lanka v England last month.) The match is

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    > "If the final result does eventually break your way, all of the anguish will have been worthwhile – but…

  2. Jeffy on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 19, 2025

    In The Art and Science of Cricket (thoroughly recommended) Bob Woolmer writes about the different expectations of a bowler in…

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    Nanny Bill's certainly has an apostrophe. Bill Edrich, on the other hand, might turn in his grave at the double-misspelling…

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