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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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  • 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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April 2, 2019 County cricket

As Cameron Bancroft becomes Durham captain, Mark Wood explains the hierarchy of potential captains

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March 28, 2019 Match report

A legitimate excuse for missing Warwickshire v Kent in County Championship Division Two last year (a match report)

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March 27, 2019 Extras

We watched the first episode of Cricket Fever, the Mumbai Indians documentary on Netflix. These are the three big highlights

2 minute readCricket Fever is a Netflix documentary about the Mumbai Indians’ 2018 season. So far we’ve only watched the first episode, but we have watched it twice, so you can trust us that these are the big highlights. 1. Every moment of Akash Ambani Akash’s parents, the multi-billionaires Mukesh and Nita

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March 26, 2019 England / India

Is Jos Buttler asking for a mankad?

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March 23, 2019 Extras

Dwayne Bravo has a new list-of-things-he-likes-set-to-music out

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March 22, 2019 Australia

David Warner’s beard is probably worth talking about at least just a little bit

< 1 minute readDavid Warner looks like the top half of his head spent a year at home and the bottom half of his head spent a year in the literal wilderness. The top half of the head has been drinking frappuccinos and eating plenty of vegetables. The bottom half of the head

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March 21, 2019 India

Delhi Daredevils have become a great deal more risk-averse

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March 20, 2019 England / South Africa

Duanne Olivier says he wants to play for England now

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March 19, 2019 Regulars

Stumps in a Salford toilet

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March 14, 2019 Afghanistan / Ireland

Looks like you’ll be able to watch the Afghanistan v Ireland Test on YouTube

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  1. King Cricket on So who’s in England’s first choice Ashes bowling attack then?August 8, 2025

    Well, hence the 'use sparingly'. Archer's shown he still has the capacity to bowl quickly, but not necessarily 20-odd overs…

  2. Andy on So who’s in England’s first choice Ashes bowling attack then?August 8, 2025

    That is assuming that Archer will be bowling 90mph+, and not the 82-85mph he was bowling in his 2nd and…

  3. King Cricket on So who’s in England’s first choice Ashes bowling attack then?August 8, 2025

    "Carse to bowl his 43rd over of the day." Stokes muttering about pain being just an emotion while bowling left…

  4. A P Webster on So who’s in England’s first choice Ashes bowling attack then?August 8, 2025

    Wood and Archer opening the bowling in the First Test would be phenomenal but we all know they'd both get…

  5. King Cricket on 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 8, 2025

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