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    December 18, 2025 King Cricket

    Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

    6 minute readGive us this day our daily treat: 15 to 20 minutes of two 50-something former England captains broadcasting their grey

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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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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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  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
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  1. Mike on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    At least if Alex Carey reaches three figures tomorrow he won't be the first player to register 100 in both…

  2. Ged Ladd on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    Yup. The same Oz broadcaster that deems Snicko adequate. The thought of counting Aussie batsmen’s nose hairs might well put…

  3. King Cricket on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 19, 2025

    Yeah, we guess the sticking with players regardless of form has persisted - except for the one player, Bashir, who…

  4. King Cricket on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    That's more likely the Oz broadcaster. Pretty sure TNT use their pictures.

  5. Aditya on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 19, 2025

    I get what you are saying but we aren’t seeing any evidence of brave selections and attacking bowling, and instead…

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