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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 6, 2024 King Cricket

    Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?

    6 minute readBrooks aren’t ordinarily associated with peaks – they tend to run beneath them – but Harry Brook might already be

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November 20, 2018 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

On Cricket by Mike Brearley – book review

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November 17, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Keaton Jennings has become shit-hot at dropping catches

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November 16, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Does sweeping damn near everything actually work?

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November 15, 2018 South Africa / West Indies

South Africa just choked in a major tournament and no-one seems to be going on about it

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November 14, 2018 England

If we no longer trust the team selection experts, it’s time to submit ourselves to the wisdom of the hat

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November 13, 2018 England

If England are desperately in need of a mediocre number six batsman then yes, Jonny Bairstow should definitely give up the wicketkeeping gloves

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November 9, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

It ends for Rangana Herath the way it will end for all of us – sprawled on our faces in defeat

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November 8, 2018 England

Keaton Jennings has a secret and he doesn’t want anyone reliant on free-to-air cricket coverage to uncover it

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November 8, 2018 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff

2 minute readOur Books to read at the cricket? feature involves readers (let’s be honest, mostly Ged) trying to work out whether or not books are suitable for reading between balls and overs when attending a cricket match. Regular correspondent Ged Ladd writes: I was reminded of this wonderful little book, How

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November 7, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Sam Curran was England’s second-choice pace bowler for this Test match and that seems pretty significant

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  1. Ged Ladd on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 18, 2025

    In other 50 year old news, I have started to write up my cricketing tempus mirabilis - the summer term…

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  3. King Cricket on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 18, 2025

    Waiting for the second innings? Eight bowlers. Still not bowled.

  4. King Cricket on Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?May 18, 2025

    Anyone want to play 'overlapping cricketer names'? Steve James Anderson Phillip Hughes.

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