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  • December 10, 2025 King Cricket

    The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

    2 minute readIt might seem a little odd to be releasing a podcast about a previous ridiculous Ashes series while the current

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  • November 6, 2025 King Cricket

    The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

    2 minute readOur book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, has now been officially released. You can (and should) buy it –

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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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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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June 1, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia

Steve Smith: the most despicable cricketer in the entire world

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May 31, 2019 Pakistan / West Indies

You might want to think about bowling short at Pakistan

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May 30, 2019 England / South Africa

What score should we give that mad Ben Stokes catch?

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May 30, 2019 Extras

Let’s work out which player is going to throw a massive great wobbler at some point during this World Cup

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May 29, 2019 England

Let us tell you about England’s World Cup squad

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May 29, 2019 England

Channel 5 will not be showing highlights of the 2019 Cricket World Cup

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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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  1. Rhys Muir on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 17, 2025

    Today was the kind of day where you can pretend things are going well until Australia actually bowl

  2. cjw714 on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 17, 2025

    I'm impressed you haven't smugly included a link to your prescient piece on the lack of opening bowlers in England's…

  3. Tim Edwards on Five ways England’s Gabba defeat to Mitchell Starc and Australia’s medium-pacers was even worse than the first TestDecember 16, 2025

    If we do lose 5-0 and the great gnashing of teeth, wringing of hands and debates about what went wrong…

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    … Something something … Jack Russell? I concur. For all the nebulous concept of ‘Bazball’ seems to have proved to…

  5. Tim on Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test previewDecember 15, 2025

    Yep. I loved it when M&S took over and talked about the importance of fun, winning not everything etc, because…

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