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January 13, 2026 King Cricket

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

5 minute readHarry Brook walked out at 8-3 in England’s first innings in Melbourne. Mitchell Starc ran in and bowled at 145.1km/h.
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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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January 16, 2019 Australia

Justin Langer really doesn’t give a toss if everyone in the entire world is making fun of him for using the word ‘elite’ all the time

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January 15, 2019 India

Is MS Dhoni still a great finisher or merely a very enthusiastic witness of finishes?

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January 12, 2019 England

Monty Panesar was on Celebrity Mastermind and it did not go well

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January 9, 2019 Australia

It’s not Shaun Marsh’s fault that he’s good enough to play Test cricket for Australia

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January 8, 2019 Australia / India

Are India brilliant? Are Australia shit?

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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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