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April 4, 2022 Australia / England

Lesson from the World Cup final: the team that wins absolutely every single game is a good team

Well that wasn’t precisely how we expected England to lose the World Cup final to Australia. Nat Sciver played one of the finest World Cup final innings you’re ever likely to see in England’s forlorn chase of 357, making 148 not out off 121 balls. The only issue was that

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March 30, 2022 Australia / England / South Africa

Who will lose to Australia in the World Cup final?

When we put together our Essentials Calendar last month, we figured we’d turn our attention to the World Cup at this point. We thought our gaze would shift from the West Indies v England Test series at the perfect time and we’d catch a big, exciting finish to the tournament.

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March 28, 2022 England / West Indies

Pretty soon someone is going to prise the brush out of Joe Root’s automaton fingers

If you needed to sum up England’s latest series defeat in a single quote, you could do a lot worse than Joe Root’s pre-tour comment: “I don’t want this to sound like a development tour at all but…” A friend of ours tells a story about when he did a

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March 25, 2022 England / West Indies

That day when a third of the highlights were a 10th wicket partnership

It’s probably best to avoid extrapolating from that England innings in a bid to predict the course of this Test match. England went to Grenada and were at various points 53-3, 53-6, 114-9 and 204-9. This all added up to one of the weirdest-arsed scorecards you are ever likely to

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March 23, 2022 Australia / England / Features

Shane Warne: The greatest foe

No man is an island and no team is either. The team you support is only part of the equation. Opponents elevate a match. Opponents like Shane Warne. Many words have been spoken and written about Shane Warne in recent weeks; about why he was such an incredible leg-spinner; about

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March 21, 2022 England / West Indies

Kraigg Brathwaite does not plan to get out

“I had my plan,” said Kraigg Brathwaite after batting for five minutes short of 16 hours against England in the second Test in Bridgetown. “They bowled well, but I stuck with my plan and it paid off.” Whatever Brathwaite’s plan is, getting out doesn’t seem to be a major component.

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March 17, 2022 England

The three best parts of Dan Lawrence’s bowling action in escalating order of greatness

Every bowler has their own bowling action, but Dan Lawrence’s is more obviously his own than most. These are the three best moments in it. (3) The flail-and-drag Not wishing the batter to be under any illusions that he might be about to see a normal bowling action, Lawrence commences

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March 9, 2022 England / West Indies

‘Jonny Bairstow, specialist number six’ is working – so that’ll need changing sharpish

When we think about Jonny Bairstow and how England have used him over the years, it reminds us of a moment in Airplane! There was a time back in 2019 when England dropped Jonny Bairstow and tried to frame it as a kick up the arse that might potentially drive

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February 25, 2022 England / West Indies

Five fiendishly difficult questions for England on their West Indies tour

England’s tour of the West Indies gets underway on Tuesday with the hotly-anticipated match against TBA. Three Test matches follow during which we may or may not get answers to these five fiendishly difficult questions. (1) Is this a ‘development tour’ or not? Development tour? Who said ‘development tour’? Actually,

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February 21, 2022 England / Extras

Which 2022 cricket matches actually matter? The King Cricket Essentials Calendar

There is an awful lot of cricket in any given year. Too much to focus on really. We’ve cut away the fat and picked out the big fixtures that we’re going to try and have more than half an eye on in the rest of 2022. You will disagree with

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