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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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July 22, 2019 Extras

We might ask you something. Please can we ask you whether we should ask you that something first?

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July 18, 2019 Extras

How much did England’s World Cup win raise cricket’s profile? | 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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July 17, 2019 Extras

AB de Villiers spotted in an unusual place (helping get cricket back into London’s parks and commons)

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June 20, 2019 Extras

You can now watch the whole of the rest of the World Cup on Sky Sports for £34 (and you don’t need any extra equipment or anything)

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June 11, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

City Cricket Battles HTML5 game

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