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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 13, 2019 Australia / Pakistan

Mohammad Amir: the most intermittently magnificent bowler in the world

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 17, Australia v Pakistan

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June 11, 2019 South Africa

Okay, your job’s pretty rubbish, but at least you’re not South Africa captain during a World Cup

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June 11, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

City Cricket Battles HTML5 game

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June 8, 2019 Bangladesh / England

Was Jason Roy’s the greatest World Cup hundred celebration?

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England

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June 7, 2019 South Africa

You can’t blame AB de Villiers for his breath-takingly egocentric last minute bid to play in the World Cup – he’s just continuing to explore what’s possible in cricket

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June 6, 2019 Australia / West Indies

Are the West Indies going to try and bounce the shit out of you? Wonder no more. Just consult this handy guide

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 10, Australia v West Indies

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June 6, 2019 Bangladesh / New Zealand

No-one knows where Ross Taylor is supposed to sit

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 9, Bangladesh v New Zealand

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June 5, 2019 Afghanistan / Sri Lanka

Let’s look at the four phases of the greatest moment of this World Cup so far and work out who had the biggest role in it

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 7, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

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June 4, 2019 England / Pakistan

Joe Root: the most boring one-day batsman in the world

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 6, England v Pakistan

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June 4, 2019 Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan: the best cricketer in the world

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 5, Bangladesh v South Africa

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  • A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down UnderAugust 21, 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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