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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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November 1, 2018 County cricket

ECB expands County Championship comfort zone

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October 31, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Which England player should carry the drinks in Sri Lanka?

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October 29, 2018 Australia

The Disapprover: the new superhero of Australian cricket

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October 25, 2018 Extras

The good and bad points of the official song for the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20

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October 24, 2018 India / West Indies

Shimron Hetmyer just narrowly missed out on making back-to-back hundreds against India

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October 24, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Rating the England burger after a wet one-day series in Sri Lanka

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October 23, 2018 Australia / England / India

Watch the second Al Jazeera match fixing documentary in which (nameless) England cricketers are accused

2 minute read

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October 18, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

The two very obvious highlights from Pakistan v Australia in Abu Dhabi

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October 17, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

Mohammad Abbas could get hold of your phone number (and so could Naseem Shah)

2 minute readFootage emerged this week of a player who could only ever have been from Pakistan. Supposedly 15 years old – but actually 17 – Naseem Shah took 6-59 in his second first-class match via a heady masala of hooping away-swingers, yorkers and helmet-rattlers. Meanwhile, in Abu Dhabi, Shah’s countryman Mohammad

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October 16, 2018 Sri Lanka

Why don’t we just pretend that Sanath Jayasuriya the cricketer was a completely different human being?

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  • Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest momentJanuary 13, 2026
  • 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 wrongDecember 18, 2025
  • The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 10, 2025
  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025

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  1. King Cricket on How can you, as an England fan, possibly tolerate this world without skulls?March 28, 2026

    It's a Start Of The Season miracle!

  2. Ged Ladd on How can you, as an England fan, possibly tolerate this world without skulls?March 28, 2026

    Fortunately, my friends in high places have put my mind at ease on this potentially existential crisis in the matter…

  3. Tim on How can you, as an England fan, possibly tolerate this world without skulls?March 26, 2026

    "ECB short of balls" the headlines write themselves But major implications like they say. Umpires will refuse to change the…

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    "If you’ve suddenly got rockets flying around, you’ve got a major problem" Hegseth-esque analysis, there.

  5. King Cricket on How can you, as an England fan, possibly tolerate this world without skulls?March 26, 2026

    Wonder if they could get their hands on a load of Kookaburras instead. That went down well last year, right?

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