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Five Test wicketkeepers who quite often didn’t actually do any wicketkeeping
This is the way the county cricket season begins, not with a bang – and we’re happy with that
Separate teams? What might a world of cricket format specialists actually look like?
Shane Warne: The greatest foe
Tail-end tons: Who is the worst batter to have hit exactly one Test hundred?
Fast bowling: County cricket’s diesels and the unprepared Test batters they create
Kane Williamson: Lord Megachief of Gold 2020/2021
17 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2021
It’s time to talk about John Emburey inhaling an entire creme caramel in one go like some kind of pudding hoover
A fast bowler can definitely be captain in an era when every player misses loads of matches anyway

Get the DeLorean up to 88mph

A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

Mohammad Asif will just have to do
Vehement letter-C denier AB de Villiers also renounces (c)
Do you click through to T20I scorecards?
Chris Gayle to play Twenty20 for someone
Generic ‘someone is better than someone else’ post

Manifesto

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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Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

A cat whose exact motivations for selective conspicuous indifference to cricket remain unknown
A cat being selectively indifferent to cricket in conspicuous ways
A vegetable being conspicuously indifferent to cricket?

Match reports

An Owzthat match report
A report from the first day of the Hundred at the Oval
A report from the first day of the Hundred at Lord’s

Cricket bats in unusual places

A cricket bat lurking in a wood and masquerading as a plaything
A cricket bat in the Pearl’s Peril hidden object game
“Cricket” in an unusual place

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About King Cricket

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About us
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King Cricket's Edge (an occasional newsletter)
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Features

Five Test wicketkeepers who quite often didn’t actually do any wicketkeeping
This is the way the county cricket season begins, not with a bang – and we’re happy with that
Separate teams? What might a world of cricket format specialists actually look like?
Shane Warne: The greatest foe
Tail-end tons: Who is the worst batter to have hit exactly one Test hundred?

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Harry Brook v Lancashire

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Manifesto

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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