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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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  • 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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May 28, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Mark Wood from England’s World Cup squad

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May 28, 2019 Match report

What was it like to go and see Hampshire v Somerset in the 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup Final?

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May 28, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Chris Woakes from England’s World Cup squad

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May 27, 2019 England

Let us tell you about James Vince from England’s World Cup squad

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May 27, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Ben Stokes from England’s World Cup squad

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May 26, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jason Roy from England’s World Cup squad

< 1 minute readJason Roy is originally from South Africa and he hits the ball very hard. The similarities with Kevin Pietersen don’t end there either – he also has the same shaped mouth. There the similarities pretty much do end. The noteworthy ones anyway. There are two versions of Jason Roy and

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May 26, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Joe Root from England’s World Cup squad

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May 25, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Adil Rashid from England’s World Cup squad

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May 25, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Liam Plunkett from England’s World Cup squad

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May 24, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Liam Dawson from England’s World Cup squad

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  • 14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
  • 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
  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 20, 2025

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  1. Ged Ladd on 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025

    Loving yer work, KC, and looking forward to the arrival of your book at our door. Daisy and I so…

  2. Tim on Sophie Ecclestone in the micro-est-cosm; Harry Brook leading from the front; and the ghosts of Rohit and Kohli | Mop-up of the dayOctober 29, 2025

    How do we feel about the strategy of the men's team 'warming up' for the Ashes in NZ? Meanwhile good…

  3. King Cricket on Cummins, coffee, Christmas? Broad, beer, bog? Some FAQs about The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes MomentsOctober 22, 2025

    Not at all the point here, we know, but Halifax is an underrated destination.

  4. Ged Ladd on Cummins, coffee, Christmas? Broad, beer, bog? Some FAQs about The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes MomentsOctober 22, 2025

    My own first book had similar qualities, both in content (yes, toilet) and medium (shiny paper). But please don’t make…

  5. King Cricket on Cummins, coffee, Christmas? Broad, beer, bog? Some FAQs about The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes MomentsOctober 22, 2025

    We've got to be honest, it's pretty shiny. (Did we mention the full colour photography?) Wouldn't recommend.

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