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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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November 28, 2019 England

People think Ollie Pope’s a wicketkeeper, but Ollie Pope is not a wicketkeeper, but oh wait, turns out he is a wicketkeeper… for England

2 minute readThe plot of The Terminator is that the machines send a cyborg back in time to kill Sarah Connor and the humans send Kyle Reese to stop it. The whole fate of humanity relies on Reese doing the job. That’s the plan for saving the species. The whole plan is

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November 27, 2019 England

We’re sure of two things about Sam Curran

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November 27, 2019 Match report

What does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish? (a match report)

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail. Ged writes: “What does it take to make a Lord’s Test match quintessentially Irish?” I wondered to myself ahead of

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November 25, 2019 England / New Zealand

Which is worse? Leaving one that hits your stumps or really stretching for a wide one and lofting it straight to a fielder?

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November 23, 2019 England / New Zealand

The correct way to deal with BJ Watling stats

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November 22, 2019 England / New Zealand

Let’s anchor Ollie Pope as a flighty middle-order shotmaker and see where he takes us

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November 21, 2019 England / New Zealand

Mount Maunganui is the home of the Nan Chair

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November 20, 2019 England / New Zealand

Four opinions to form about this England team during the first Test against New Zealand

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November 20, 2019 Extras

Plumb! – a themed digital comedy cricket magazine

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November 19, 2019 England / New Zealand

You can get live TV coverage of both New Zealand v England Tests for £20

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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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  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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