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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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August 29, 2019 Extras

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August 27, 2019 Australia / England

The ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous third Test

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August 23, 2019 Australia / England

Which was the purest awful dismissal in England’s 67 all out?

2 minute readEngland v Australia, third Test, day two

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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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  • 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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  1. Ged Ladd on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 24, 2025

    Daisy and I are off to see the Banksy exhibition this afternoon, so your edict, "don't spray it around too…

  2. King Cricket on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    Even if we did do requests (WHICH WE DON'T), we certainly wouldn't turn them around that quickly.

  3. Ged Ladd on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    Thus spake the chap who doesn't do requests!

  4. King Cricket on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    He didn't do it at lunch on day two though. We're not saying it's a performance enhancer, but if you…

  5. cjw714 on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    He's an athlete so he's paid a very decent sum of money to keep himself fit enough to play sport…

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