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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.
Four opinions to form about this England team during the first Test against New Zealand
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Continue readingYou can get live TV coverage of both New Zealand v England Tests for £20
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Continue readingWhat are we calling the post-Strauss era?
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Chris Woakes has a beard now and that definitely says something although we’re not exactly sure what
4 minute readRemember when Ian Bell grew an almost-beard? That was a statement if ever there was one. Ian Bell’s beard said, “I am grizzled nowadays. I am a veteran. I am a man.” Gingery and flecked with grey, Bell’s was the facial hair of a cowboy who’d been on the trail
Continue readingEven the mere *idea* of playing for Yorkshire seems to have helped Dawid Malan. Somehow
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Continue readingEoin Morgan had never tried coffee until last week. What does that say about him?
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Continue readingYou can add to the English cricket season but you can never take away
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Continue readingAre you completely numb to the ridiculousness of cricket terminology?
3 minute readThis piece is not a flimsy excuse to publish footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game. It is a chin-stroking musing on the fundamental meaningless of sporting terminology. The fact that it happens to feature footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game is just a bonus.
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