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December 18, 2025 King Cricket

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

6 minute readGive us this day our daily treat: 15 to 20 minutes of two 50-something former England captains broadcasting their grey
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December 10, 2025 King Cricket

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

2 minute readIt might seem a little odd to be releasing a podcast about a previous ridiculous Ashes series while the current
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November 6, 2025 King Cricket

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

2 minute readOur book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, has now been officially released. You can (and should) buy it –
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October 29, 2025 King Cricket

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

6 minute readaka The Vaughan Supremacy As we’ve already told you (multiple times) we’ve got a book out, co-written with Dan Liebke:
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October 13, 2025 King Cricket

14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?

7 minute readSometimes we do this thing where we sift the summer’s events, pick out the more striking moments and then see
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November 8, 2019 England

Even the mere idea of playing for Yorkshire seems to have helped Dawid Malan. Somehow

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November 5, 2019 England

Eoin Morgan had never tried coffee until last week. What does that say about him?

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November 1, 2019 County cricket

You can add to the English cricket season but you can never take away

2 minute readA brief history of what’s been wrong with the County Championship in the fairly recent past, the present, and in a couple of years’ time… The last of those seems to be on the cards going by an interview with Ashley Giles in the latest issue of The Cricketer. Giles

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October 30, 2019 Extras

Are you completely numb to the ridiculousness of cricket terminology?

3 minute readThis piece is not a flimsy excuse to publish footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game. It is a chin-stroking musing on the fundamental meaningless of sporting terminology. The fact that it happens to feature footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game is just a bonus.

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October 29, 2019 Associates

Papua New Guinea have qualified for the World T20. Without looking stuff up, let’s all share everything we know about Papua New Guinea

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October 26, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

The Cricket 19 videogame probably isn’t going to make David Willey feel any better

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October 24, 2019 India

India ‘move on’ from MS Dhoni and instead pick some random Dube

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October 22, 2019 County cricket

Don’t know what to think about The Hundred? Why not take your lead from Steve Smith’s awkward polite smile?

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October 22, 2019 India / South Africa

Why South Africa couldn’t possibly have come up with a more appropriate end to their tour of India than Lungi Ngidi’s bizarre golden duck

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October 19, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred draft: Which team pissed its money away on overpriced stars?

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