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March 30, 2021 County cricket / Features / Pakistan / South Africa

Danish Kaneria or Dane Vilas – who is most Danish?

Danish Kaneria is a Pakistani cricketer who has been banned from the sport for life for spot-fixing. Dane Vilas is a South African cricketer who currently plays for Lancashire. Despite what their names suggest, neither player is from Denmark. So who is most Danish? Let’s measure the two men against

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March 24, 2021 England / Features

England’s eight most surprising double hundreds since Graham Gooch’s 333

Graham Gooch’s 333 against India at Lord’s in 1990 was the first eye-wateringly big innings we can remember. The idea that one guy could score that many runs on his own in a Test match recalibrated what we thought was possible. There have only really been a handful of oversized

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March 10, 2021 England / Features

Why it is only now dawning on England fans that their team plays way too many games

Turns out people don’t like squad rotation. Not when you call it that anyway. Test Match Special can be a good place to gauge which way the wind’s blowing – and not just because it’s regularly interrupted by the shipping forecast. Earlier this week, Jonathan Agnew wrote a column in

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February 20, 2021 Australia / England / Features / India / South Africa / Sri Lanka / West Indies

Four of the weirdest eight-fors of the last 25 years (plus one nine-for and one ten-for)

There have been 28 occasions in the last 25 years when a bowler has taken eight wickets or more in a Test innings. Some of these were weirder than others. At what point does a bowling performance become really, truly, freakishly remarkable? We’d say at the seventh wicket. Five-fors are

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February 10, 2021 England / Features / India

Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?

“I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary,” said Jimmy Anderson about an over that featured one of the finest clean-bowleds you’re ever likely to see, then another one that may or may not have been better, plus an LBW shout that could legitimately have been given sandwiched in

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January 24, 2021 Australia / England / Features / Regulars

The 1997 Ridiculous Ashes – all six episodes

Hopefully you’re aware that we (Alex Bowden and Dan Liebke) are doing The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast. Series 1 is about the 1997 series and you can find all six episodes below. The Ridiculous Ashes is an alternative trophy that is awarded to the side that produces the most hilarious and

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January 12, 2021 Extras / Features

The worst Test bowling averages of all time

Who has the worst Test bowling average of all time? This is, on the face of it, a very simple question. There are, however, two different answers, neither of which get to the nub of why the question is interesting in the first place. Answer 1: Bangladesh’s Naeem Islam averaged

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January 7, 2021 Australia / England / Features

What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket

England v Australia, third Test, day four It’s six or out… … It’s six! Jonathan Agnew, Test Match Special Have you seen No Country For Old Men? You should watch No Country For Old Men. No Country For Old Men is a striking and excellent film and while the ending

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December 14, 2020 England / Features

Let’s try and identify England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer

A bits-and-pieces cricketer is a player who wouldn’t warrant a place in the side as a batsman or a bowler but somehow gets picked anyway based on cumulative all-round ability. Let’s try and find England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer. Before we get into this, you may be

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November 24, 2020 England / Features / Zimbabwe

The Awkwardest Squad: Why the 96/97 “flippin’ murdered ’em” tour of Zimbabwe was peak 90s England (a net bowler’s story)

Big thanks to everyone who funds the site through our Patreon campaign. We couldn’t justify spending this much time on a King Cricket article without you. Remember 1996? Things were very different in 1996. Back in 1996 Leonardo Dicaprio from The Revenant and Claire Danes from Homeland seemed like a

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  • Danish Kaneria or Dane Vilas – who is most Danish?
  • England’s eight most surprising double hundreds since Graham Gooch’s 333
  • Why it is only now dawning on England fans that their team plays way too many games
  • Four of the weirdest eight-fors of the last 25 years (plus one nine-for and one ten-for)
  • Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?
  • The 1997 Ridiculous Ashes – all six episodes
  • The worst Test bowling averages of all time
  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
  • Let’s try and identify England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer
  • The Awkwardest Squad: Why the 96/97 “flippin’ murdered ’em” tour of Zimbabwe was peak 90s England (a net bowler’s story)

Get the DeLorean up to 88mph

A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

  • Kevin Pietersen sort of didn’t really get on that well with a few people he had to spend a lot of time with
  • England v Australia ODI at Cardiff – an overview of food, beer and men in odd shirts
  • Joe Root makes a hundred on The Day of Inevitable Fifties
  • Kevin Pietersen’s reintegration process
  • Has someone in England been given a giant mace for being good at summat?

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  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
  • Runs don't have a fixed value
  • Play fewer matches
  • Keep the Ashes an 'event'
  • Play on good pitches
  • Why wickets, not runs, are what's important
  • Always play a spinner
  • What is bad light?
  • The second division of the County Championship doesn't count

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