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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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December 19, 2018 Australia / India

The angry exchange between Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja basically just ends up comical once it’s been translated

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December 18, 2018 Australia / India

Why India deserved to lose in Perth – explained with reference to a videogame that it turns out wasn’t actually Ikari Warriors after all but was pretty similar

3 minute read

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December 14, 2018 Australia / India

Why are India so keen to keep Ravindra Jadeja in his pigeonhole?

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December 13, 2018 Regulars

A cricket being conspicuously indifferent to the Home of Cricket

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December 12, 2018 Australia

Cricket bats are the new coins and we couldn’t be happier

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December 8, 2018 Australia / India

Is it actually possible to play positive cricket by playing defensively?

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December 6, 2018 Australia / India

(Almost) everyone rejoice: India have picked Rohit Sharma for an away Test match again

< 1 minute readIndia have again let Rohit Sharma don white clothing overseas. This is excellent news for fans of explosions in fireworks factories. For context, Rohit averages 85 in Test matches in India, so he’s a brilliant batsman. He also averages 25.75 outside India, so he’s a rubbish batsman. India like picking

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December 4, 2018 England

Why Jack Leach is not ‘better’ than Adil Rashid

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December 2, 2018 Match report

What’s it like to watch cricket at Galle? (Sri Lanka v South Africa match report)

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November 29, 2018 County cricket

Five-ball overs and changing ends a bit less often – rules confirmed for the ECB’s ‘New Competition’

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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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  • 23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024January 10, 2025
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  1. King Cricket on Welcome to the world of tomorrow! | a recap of England’s 3-0 ODI series win over the West IndiesJune 4, 2025

    Sounds like a 1930s dice game they've brought back and tried to make sound trendy.

  2. Ged Ladd on Welcome to the world of tomorrow! | a recap of England’s 3-0 ODI series win over the West IndiesJune 4, 2025

    Wiljac Bethjackz could surely be the finest all-round cricketer that Poland never produced, although far more convincing with the bat…

  3. A P Webster on Welcome to the world of tomorrow! | a recap of England’s 3-0 ODI series win over the West IndiesJune 4, 2025

    Smith as the new Moeen in the 'would you mind...?' role is definitely a possibility

  4. Sam on Welcome to the world of tomorrow! | a recap of England’s 3-0 ODI series win over the West IndiesJune 4, 2025

    How long before someone suggests Smith as Test opener, thereby solving the Pope v Bethell Conundrum? (Which I believe is…

  5. Ged Ladd on A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mileJune 4, 2025

    I metaphorically blinked and missed the third ODI...and I was at Lord's pretty much throughout it. Oh well.

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