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  • January 13, 2026 King Cricket

    Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

    5 minute readHarry Brook walked out at 8-3 in England’s first innings in Melbourne. Mitchell Starc ran in and bowled at 145.1km/h.

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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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December 18, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred: Does a two-and-a-half minute break in a game of cricket actually constitute a ‘time-out’?

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December 17, 2019 Extras

AB de Villiers Retirement Watch, emails and answers | Mop-up of the day

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December 14, 2019 England

Is Ben Foakes being treated fairly by England?

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December 10, 2019 Regulars

A cricket ball in Netflix’s Designated Survivor

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Hoopy writes: After deciding I was going to waste a Saturday between mowing the lawn, chatting shit to mates, finishing Borderlands 2 (again) and watching telly, I came up with this. It’s a scene from

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December 9, 2019 Extras

The King Cricket Retired Cricketer From Several Years Back Crossword

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December 7, 2019 England

Jonny Bairstow’s back

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December 4, 2019 England / Extras

You can never replace Bob Willis

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December 4, 2019 England / New Zealand

Remember that time England picked five seamers and no spinner?

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December 3, 2019 England / New Zealand

The best nanosecond of Joe Denly’s unbelievable dropped catch

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December 2, 2019 England / New Zealand

The Great Neil Wagner investigates

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  • Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest momentJanuary 13, 2026
  • 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 wrongDecember 18, 2025
  • The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 10, 2025
  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025

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  • Let’s revisit the Netherlands’ win over England at the 2009 T20 World Cup and in particular the insanely chaotic final over from Stuart Broad

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  • Which of Australia’s three banned ball-tamperers is being the most annoying (and which of them is being the least annoying)?

    Which of Australia’s three banned ball-tamperers is being the most annoying (and which of them is being the least annoying)?

  • Hot streaks: Test batters who hit a prolonged purple patch

    Hot streaks: Test batters who hit a prolonged purple patch

  • Five bonkers moments from the 2019 Cricket World Cup final – but which was the most uniquely cricket?

    Five bonkers moments from the 2019 Cricket World Cup final – but which was the most uniquely cricket?

  • Grim final Tests: 8 players who went out on a massive low

    Grim final Tests: 8 players who went out on a massive low

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  1. Ged Ladd on Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?April 23, 2026

    Stranger things have happened. This is English cricket after all. You might come to Rew the day you wrote this…

  2. King Cricket on Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?April 23, 2026

    We keep wilfully suppressing the urge to write more equivocally on this. But yeah, that would be a corker.

  3. King Cricket on Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?April 23, 2026

    To be fair to the ECB, they also haven't been averse to picking Second XI Somerset players over the first-teamers.

  4. Sam on Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?April 23, 2026

    England now have the opportunity to do the funniest, funniest, funniest thing possible and pick Zak Crawley again.

  5. King Cricket on Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?April 23, 2026

    It has to be said that those who suffer the neck-breathing are presumably the least likely to willingly open the…

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