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  • November 19, 2025 King Cricket

    Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?

    6 minute readSomewhat unusually, this first Test of the 2025/26 Ashes is in Perth. There’ll therefore be much talk about Australia surrendering

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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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  • August 21, 2025 King Cricket

    A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

    8 minute readEveryone loves a Combined XI. Yeah, sure, it’s usually a Best XI, but in these parts we deal in Worst

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February 8, 2019 England / West Indies

Something truly remarkable might be about to happen and it involves Keaton Jennings

2 minute readKeaton Jennings (via Channel 5)

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February 6, 2019 England / West Indies

We’ve accidentally made the case for England to drop Moeen Ali

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February 4, 2019 Australia / Extras

Unofficial snack food of the Australian national cricket team

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February 3, 2019 England / West Indies

Bairstow versus Bravo: a tale of two fifties (and what they say about England and the West Indies)

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February 2, 2019 Bangladesh / Extras

The Jason Roy catch: Has any wicket in the history of cricket featured a greater gulf in quality between bowling and fielding?

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February 1, 2019 Extras

Now TV might work out cheaper if cricket’s all you want to watch on Sky Sports

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January 31, 2019 England / West Indies

Did Joe Root get the definitive ‘lifter’ off Alzarri Joseph?

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January 30, 2019 England / West Indies

Joe Denly has fingers that bend

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January 29, 2019 England / West Indies

Let’s take a quick look at the opening innings of some recent England Test tours and also the warm-up matches that preceded them

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January 25, 2019 England / Extras / West Indies

Which Sky Sports commentator delivered the most appropriate ‘England were all out for 77’ face?

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  • Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025
  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
  • 14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
  • Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?August 27, 2025
  • A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down UnderAugust 21, 2025

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  1. Ged Ladd on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    We’re with APW on this one. It is obscenely cold. Daisy and I simply cannot entertain thoughts of the Ashes…

  2. King Cricket on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    And then there are all the unlikely injury possibilities as well.

  3. Professor Colin Abernathy on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    Even the potential for ridiculous injuries is sky-high. Mark Wood to fall off his imaginary horse and break his collarbone?…

  4. King Cricket on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    Honestly, how could you be?

  5. A P Webster on Ashes 1st Test preview: How fast is the pitch at Perth’s Optus Stadium? Who should be afraid? How ridiculous are England? Can Australia possibly counter them?November 19, 2025

    I am not emotionally ready for an away Ashes series

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