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  • November 19, 2025 King Cricket

    Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?

    6 minute readSomewhat unusually, this first Test of the 2025/26 Ashes is in Perth. There’ll therefore be much talk about Australia surrendering

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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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  • August 27, 2025 King Cricket

    Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?

    7 minute read“It’s going to be hot. It’s going to be flat. Who’s going to break first? Is it going to be

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  • August 21, 2025 King Cricket

    A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

    8 minute readEveryone loves a Combined XI. Yeah, sure, it’s usually a Best XI, but in these parts we deal in Worst

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August 22, 2019 Australia / England

What is the difference between Jofra Archer’s arms?

2 minute readEngland v Australia, third Test, day one

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August 22, 2019 Australia / England / Extras

Sorry, we’ve misled a few of you

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August 21, 2019 Australia / England

Did you see… Joe Denly’s starfish catch?

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August 20, 2019 Australia / England

Joe Root Burnout Watch – part three

< 1 minute readHow burnt-out is Joe Root right now?

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August 20, 2019 Australia / England / Extras

You can watch the whole of the rest of the Ashes for £34 via Now TV

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August 20, 2019 Australia / England

The second Test was a draw. But was it a ridiculous draw?

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August 17, 2019 Australia / England

Jofra Archer doesn’t believe in tiredness

2 minute readEngland v Australia, second Test, day four

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August 15, 2019 England

Which England player would complete the most unexceptional Test batting line-up in history?

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August 14, 2019 Extras / Features

The greatest bits and pieces and cricketers of all time

< 1 minute readAt the time of writing, it looked rather like Lord’s was going to get its traditional Thursday start to a Test match after all. Maybe the skies will unbruise, but until they do, here’s a thing we wrote for The Cricket Monthly a few months back about bits and pieces

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August 13, 2019 Australia

Justin Langer is an inconsistent disciple of “dueness”

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  • 14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
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  1. Tim on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    The cold and snow etc help me feel ready. This is when I need to hear a distant voice on…

  2. Ged Ladd on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    We’re with APW on this one. It is obscenely cold. Daisy and I simply cannot entertain thoughts of the Ashes…

  3. King Cricket on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    And then there are all the unlikely injury possibilities as well.

  4. Professor Colin Abernathy on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    Even the potential for ridiculous injuries is sky-high. Mark Wood to fall off his imaginary horse and break his collarbone?…

  5. King Cricket on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

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