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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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October 5, 2019 India

R Ashwin’s idea of getting away from cricket isn’t the same as other people’s idea of getting away from cricket

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October 3, 2019 County cricket

Crisps, slogans, gibberish: get to know all the new teams for The Hundred

2 minute readThey’ve told us some things about The Hundred teams! Specifically, they’ve told us which crisps are sponsoring each team and then they’ve also made up a bunch of stuff about each team’s ‘identity’ which we’ll all have to work very hard to commit to memory because it is not based

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October 3, 2019 India / South Africa

Sorry, but the ‘lost ball’ was a bigger highlight than Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma and all the other stuff

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October 2, 2019 County cricket

Please will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred

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October 1, 2019 County cricket / Pakistan

Shahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time

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September 28, 2019 Australia / England / India

13 things that happened this summer that sort of sum things up but mostly don’t

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September 27, 2019 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

An Instant Cricket Library in a cactus

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk

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September 25, 2019 County cricket

Will Lanky the Giraffe ever win the T20 Finals Day Mascot Race?

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September 24, 2019 County cricket

Essex, Somerset, 27 Dresses and “Pou-Pou”

2 minute readThis article is pinned to the top of the page. New articles will appear directly beneath it.

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September 20, 2019 Australia / England

Video: A new angle on a perfectly normal Steve Smith defensive stroke

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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
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