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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.
England have hired a Yorkshireman as coach and no-one’s really noticed
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Continue readingR Ashwin’s idea of getting away from cricket isn’t the same as other people’s idea of getting away from cricket
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Crisps, slogans, gibberish: get to know all the new teams for The Hundred
2 minute readThey’ve told us some things about The Hundred teams! Specifically, they’ve told us which crisps are sponsoring each team and then they’ve also made up a bunch of stuff about each team’s ‘identity’ which we’ll all have to work very hard to commit to memory because it is not based
Continue readingSorry, but the ‘lost ball’ was a bigger highlight than Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma and all the other stuff
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Continue readingPlease will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred
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Continue readingShahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time
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Continue reading13 things that happened this summer that sort of sum things up but mostly don’t
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Continue readingAn Instant Cricket Library in a cactus
< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk
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