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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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February 13, 2019 England / West Indies

Jason Holder is not Bill Lumbergh

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February 12, 2019 Extras / Features

Are you David Lloyd’s unoccupied hand when Nasser Hussain is answering a question? Because we are

5 minute readOver time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs by his side when Ian Ward interviews himself and Nasser Hussain at the end of each day’s play on Sky Sports. It is not the one that holds the microphone.

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February 11, 2019 England / West Indies

Watch 45-minute highlights of the day Mark Wood took five wickets against the West Indies bowling at over 90mph

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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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  1. Buttface on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 29, 2025

    Yeah, well, that was that I suppose. Was so unimpressed that it's taken me to what would have been the…

  2. Ged Ladd on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 27, 2025

    I hope you’re not suggesting that Geoffrey’s mum could do better than that with a stick of rhubarb, Tim.

  3. King Cricket on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 27, 2025

    Merry Day After Boxing Day Testmas, JJE!

  4. Aditya on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 27, 2025

    I know it’s hard, with finances dictating everything, but I wish we could have Boxing Day tests in Australia, South…

  5. Tim on The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day TestDecember 27, 2025

    Oh Ged. Just think of Geoffrey, he always slows things down

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