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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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  • August 5, 2025 King Cricket

    From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test series

    7 minute readNo other sport does all-the-fun-of-the-fair climaxes like cricket. In large part that’s due to the complexity of the game and

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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)

3 minute read

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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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  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
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  • 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
  • From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test seriesAugust 5, 2025

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  1. King Cricket on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 14, 2025

    What doesn't?

  2. Tim on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 14, 2025

    This doesn't help the "we've forgotten about Carey/Bairstow" argument

  3. King Cricket on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 14, 2025

    The main thing that strikes us is that he looks in better physical shape than when he was as player…

  4. Sam on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 14, 2025

    Alastair Cook has done a....well, see for yourself... https://twitter.com/cricketontnt/status/1989302462352593136

  5. Balladeer on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    At least they're not a bit fast-medium. (checks descriptions of Atkinson, Tongue, Stokes in Cricinfo) oh God

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