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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 5, 2025 King Cricket

    From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test series

    7 minute readNo other sport does all-the-fun-of-the-fair climaxes like cricket. In large part that’s due to the complexity of the game and

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June 23, 2019 New Zealand / West Indies

Carlos Brathwaite v Physics

3 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 29, New Zealand v West Indies

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June 22, 2019 Afghanistan

Let’s try and put Afghanistan’s rate of improvement into perspective

3 minute readIn the second series of Stranger Things, Dustin hears a noise in a bin. Ignoring the spooky music and his own fear, he goes and opens it. Next thing we see is Dustin depositing a small obese newt thing into the tank he normally keeps his tortoise in. He feeds

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June 22, 2019 England / Sri Lanka

Lasith Malinga: the weirdest military medium bowler in the world

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 27, England v Sri Lanka

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June 20, 2019 Australia / Bangladesh

Which ball was the best ball out of Glenn Maxwell’s magnificent 10-ball innings

3 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 26, Australia v Bangladesh

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June 20, 2019 Extras

You can now watch the whole of the rest of the World Cup on Sky Sports for £34 (and you don’t need any extra equipment or anything)

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June 19, 2019 India

Please can we talk about the time Rohit Sharma ate 25 fried eggs in one go?

< 1 minute readIn one respect our latest piece for Cricket 365 is a Rohit Sharma v Virat Kohli comparison sort of thing. At the same time, the bit about how Sharma once ate 25 fried eggs in one go is so overwhelming that you could just as easily say that it’s a

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June 18, 2019 Afghanistan / England

What was Eoin Morgan aiming for?

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 24, Afghanistan v England

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June 18, 2019 Bangladesh / West Indies

Andre Russell really isn’t cut out for bowling and he should probably just stop

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 23, Bangladesh v West Indies

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June 15, 2019 India / Pakistan

When will it rain during the India v Pakistan match?

2 minute read

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June 14, 2019 England / West Indies

Was Fran Wilson’s horizontal diving catch the perfect horizontal diving catch?

3 minute read

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  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
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  • Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?August 27, 2025
  • A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down UnderAugust 21, 2025
  • From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test seriesAugust 5, 2025

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  1. daneel on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    Tour's off to a great start, I see.

  2. Tim on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    It's all double bluff and mind games. Particularly the bit where Matthew Potts hit 25 off one over from Joe…

  3. King Cricket on Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2November 13, 2025

    He really should rebrand as Mark Wouldn't.

  4. A P Webster on Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2November 13, 2025

    I wasn't so naive to think Mark Wood would manage a whole Test without some sort of injury. I was…

  5. Sam on Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2November 13, 2025

    Better than shoving toast up them, I suppose.

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