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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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April 16, 2019 County cricket / England

Are we talking about Haseeb Hameed or Jack Leach this week?

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April 12, 2019 County cricket / England

Gary Ballance is making hundreds again and you’re going to have to take a position on that

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April 10, 2019 Australia / County cricket

Did Cameron Bancroft just say “the Durham County Cricket Club”?

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April 9, 2019 County cricket

We’re mostly talking about Sam Northeast this week

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April 5, 2019 India

How has Virat Kohli been dealing with his recent inability to lay bat on ball?

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April 4, 2019 County cricket

Stop what you’re doing and pay attention: County cricket is about to slightly start

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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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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…
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…
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.
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…
John Kelly 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
TNT's coverage is adequate, agreed, however, some of the production side is atrocious!! Sometimes so closeup i can count the…

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