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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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March 7, 2019 Extras

Does Harry Kane know how to hold a cricket bat?

2 minute read

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March 6, 2019 England / West Indies

That Chris Jordan caught and bowled: Can anyone explain the physics to us?

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March 4, 2019 West Indies

Did you see… Chris Gayle break into a run?

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February 28, 2019 England / West Indies

Did you see… Jos Buttler’s wrists?

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February 27, 2019 County cricket / South Africa

County cricket is dying and poverty-stricken and if something isn’t done soon the counties won’t even have enough money to tempt the world’s finest cricketers to renounce their international careers any more

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February 23, 2019 South Africa / Sri Lanka

Someone has hidden or misplaced the Sri Lanka Test team that subsides to predictable defeats. If anyone tracks it down, they should probably alert the authorities. Its parents will no doubt be very worried

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February 21, 2019 England / West Indies

Chris Gayle is not a very efficient batsman any more

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February 20, 2019 West Indies

Twice today we’ve heard that John Campbell’s nickname is Cannonball

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February 19, 2019 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? The Price of Fish by Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli

2 minute readGed Ladd writes: Disclosure: One of The Price Of Fish’s authors, Ian Harris, is my nom d’actualité. I had been invited by the London School of Economics for a video interview around some of the subject matter in the award-winning book, The Price of Fish, A New Approach to Wicked

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February 16, 2019 South Africa / Sri Lanka

Kusal Perera does not care for circumstances

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  • 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. 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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