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  • May 20, 2025 King Cricket

    Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing

    6 minute readThose of us chipping away the verdigris have a pretty good idea what an early summer England v Zimbabwe Test

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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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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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May 2, 2019 England

The Alex Hales affair: Street brawls, naked selfies and recreational drugs not part of ‘team culture’ says Eoin Morgan

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May 1, 2019 England

It sounds like plenty of England players were completely fed up with Alex Hales

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April 30, 2019 England

Shall we try and work out what’s going on with Alex Hales?

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April 26, 2019 England

What the hell? Stuart Broad’s doing a podcast with Stephen Fry

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April 25, 2019 Extras

This is a very, very, very fine piece of work

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April 24, 2019 India

Did you see MS Dhoni fail to hit the ball when Chennai Super Kings only needed two to win?

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  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 20, 2025
  • In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis HeadJanuary 30, 2025
  • Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowlerJanuary 16, 2025
  • 23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024January 10, 2025
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  1. King Cricket on Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South AfricaJune 17, 2025

    Sounds like a match from about 2019 going by the playing staff. Always a good sign. Smoothing the transition to…

  2. Ged Ladd on Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South AfricaJune 17, 2025

    Fear not, readers, a "proper" match report for this match will be winging its way to KC very soon. Look…

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    I just caught some Major League Cricket - found it randomly while channel hopping at the gym. Seattle Orcas vs.…

  4. Bail-out on Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South AfricaJune 16, 2025

    Absolutely bonkers match, particularly the way the 3rd super over went after all the previous trouble settling the game... https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/scotland-t20-tri-series-2025-1485935/nepal-vs-netherlands-2nd-match-1485939/match-report…

  5. King Cricket on Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South AfricaJune 16, 2025

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