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    January 30, 2025 King Cricket

    In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis Head

    7 minute readIs there a less showy attacking batter than Australia’s Travis Head? Australia picked a new opener not so long ago

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  • January 16, 2025 King Cricket

    Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowler

    5 minute readWe may or may not have caught up with Mark Wood to talk about his interest in wood. It’s a

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  • January 10, 2025 King Cricket

    23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024

    7 minute readIt was a hell of a year. Probably. Who can honestly remember 12 months’ worth of stuff, let alone assign

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  • January 8, 2025 King Cricket

    Lord Megachief of Gold 2024

    4 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over

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  • December 6, 2024 King Cricket

    Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?

    6 minute readBrooks aren’t ordinarily associated with peaks – they tend to run beneath them – but Harry Brook might already be

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May 23, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jonny Bairstow from England’s World Cup squad

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May 22, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jofra Archer from England’s World Cup squad

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May 22, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Moeen Ali from England’s World Cup squad

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May 21, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Eoin Morgan from England’s World Cup squad

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May 18, 2019 England / Pakistan

Did you see Shoaib Malik flat-bat his own stumps like an absolute gimboid?

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May 17, 2019 England

Is a Ben Stokes with a rueful smile a diminished Ben Stokes?

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May 16, 2019 Australia

Matt Renshaw has given a first-hand account of that time he had to retire hurt because of the wild shits

2 minute readMatt Renshaw had to retire hurt because he had the wild shits once. You may remember it because it was an instance of an international cricketer retiring hurt because he had the wild shits. Renshaw spoke about the experience on The Final Word podcast this week. (The Final Word is

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May 15, 2019 England / Pakistan

England are a good one-day bowling side and if you think otherwise, you’re living in the past

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May 9, 2019 England

We know this is maybe missing the point a bit, but that Jofra Archer seems quite a nice lad, doesn’t he?

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May 7, 2019 India

How did Mumbai Indians top the table in IPL 12 after basically being rubbish in IPL 11?

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    Jim Troughton’s grandfather, of course, played The Doctor in Doctor Who. Could it be that having a thespian bloodline is…

  2. King Cricket on Rohit Sharma: all over the place as a Test batter, less annoying than Virat Kohli as a Test captainMay 8, 2025

    Man, we're glad you didn't land that before his retirement. You saved us all an awful lot of annoying ear-wormery.

  3. Sam Blackledge on Rohit Sharma: all over the place as a Test batter, less annoying than Virat Kohli as a Test captainMay 8, 2025

    Sometimes it felt as if he would simply blend into the background. Sharma Chameleon, if you will.

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    Massive Murts? Mega Murts? Gert Murts?

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    Apparently his nickname at Middlesex was “mini-Murts” as he was seen as a natural successor to Tim “big-Murts” (I have…

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