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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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January 5, 2019 Australia

Have Australia fans become paranoid about opposition ball tampering yet?

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January 4, 2019 Australia / Features

Which of Australia’s three banned ball-tamperers is being the most annoying (and which of them is being the least annoying)?

3 minute readThe Tamperer was an Italian dance music act. They had a number one with Feel It. The most memorable element of Feel It was that the bridge section (there wasn’t really a chorus) went: “What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?” There you go. There’s a nice

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January 1, 2019 West Indies

Jason Holder: Lord Megachief of Gold 2018

3 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over the previous calendar year. Here are all the winners.

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December 27, 2018 Australia / England / Features / India

Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?

7 minute readThe story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a

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December 22, 2018 Australia

Cameron Bancroft’s very long open letter, Festivus wishes and entirely unnecessary notification of upcoming fixtures

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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

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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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