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September 11, 2019 Regulars

The impact of Headingley 2019 | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It

2 minute readI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It is a semi-regular feature where we ask a fella called Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not.

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September 10, 2019 Match report

A match report from a man who claims to have “won the Ashes single-handedly”… in Galle

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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September 2, 2019 Extras

Cricket Badger’s back

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August 31, 2019 Extras

An update on the King Cricket Patreon campaign

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August 29, 2019 Extras

If you’d like to chip in to support King Cricket, you can (please do)

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August 22, 2019 Australia / England / Extras

Sorry, we’ve misled a few of you

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August 20, 2019 Australia / England / Extras

You can watch the whole of the rest of the Ashes for £34 via Now TV

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August 14, 2019 Extras / Features

The greatest bits and pieces and cricketers of all time

< 1 minute readAt the time of writing, it looked rather like Lord’s was going to get its traditional Thursday start to a Test match after all. Maybe the skies will unbruise, but until they do, here’s a thing we wrote for The Cricket Monthly a few months back about bits and pieces

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August 10, 2019 Regulars

Stanley being conspicuously indifferent to the Ashes

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk.

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August 9, 2019 Extras

The Edge cinematic match report (in other words, a review)

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  1. King Cricket on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 26, 2025

    Still here at 8-3. Wonder how we'll- yeah, you get it.

  2. King Cricket on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 26, 2025

    We've checked the score for the first time between innings. Wonder how we'll look back on this moment...

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RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat finally being won over to cricket by the sheer ridiculousness of the Ashes
  • A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket
  • Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being

RSS Match reports

  • Match Report: Ireland vs England, 2nd T20, Malahide
  • Keep your enemies closer | a 2019 Edgbaston Ashes Test match report
  • Match report: Sixes, Fulham

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  • A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)
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  • A cricket bat in a Pigbag video

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  • Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test preview

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