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January 24, 2025 Australia / England

‘Fitness? Actually we’re inferior in loads of areas’ says Jon Lewis after England lose the Ashes

3 minute readWe’re not sure this is the effective rebuttal he thinks it is. England have been criticised for their fitness both before and during this Ashes capitulation, but head coach Jon Lewis says they didn’t lose because of that – there are in fact loads of other reasons why they’ve lost

January 22, 2025 Extras

The 2025 King Cricket Essentials Calendar

2 minute readWe do this every year now as a means of navigating the heavingly confusing cricket schedule. We draw up a month-by-month guide to the series and tournaments we’ll (most likely) be focusing on in the coming year so that we don’t accidentally piss away some of our enthusiasm on whatever

January 20, 2025 Australia / England

Heather Knight’s slightly odd reaction to failing to reclaim the Ashes

3 minute readEngland don’t change captains too often. The previous one, Charlotte Edwards, made her international debut in 1996 and served as captain from 2005 until 2016 when current captain, Heather Knight, took over. Knight has previously said she’s grown more relaxed as a leader over time because she believes that’s what

January 16, 2025 England / Features

Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowler

5 minute readWe may or may not have caught up with Mark Wood to talk about his interest in wood. It’s a little known fact that England fast bowler Mark Wood is in fact called Mark Rudd. Team-mates began calling him Wood near the start of his career in mocking acknowledgement of

January 15, 2025 Regulars

A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. A P Webster writes… I bring updates on previously-featured feline indifference to Boxing Day Tests and cricket in general. As I was checking in on the South Africa v Pakistan Test over

January 14, 2025 Australia / England

Ashes, second ODI: Really, if we’re honest, England just wanted the defeat more than Australia

2 minute readAt the end of the day, England just wanted it more. Australia showed serious appetite for defeat when they shipped their last eight wickets for 49 runs, but England responded well and crucially held their nerve at the death. Having already successfully lost the first Ashes match (an ODI) by

January 10, 2025 Features

23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024

7 minute readIt was a hell of a year. Probably. Who can honestly remember 12 months’ worth of stuff, let alone assign it some sort of value by which the year as a whole can be compared to previous ones? Here’s a bunch of cricket things that happened in 2024 anyway –

January 8, 2025 Features / India

Lord Megachief of Gold 2024

4 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. No point being all coy about this and postponing the opening of the envelope for dramatic effort. Heck, why even insert

January 6, 2025 India

Where will Gautam Gambhir take India next?

3 minute readA 3-1 defeat in Australia is no catastrophe really, but that isn’t to say India didn’t experience catastrophic moments. In fact looking back, it could have been a real horror show if it weren’t for Jasprit Bumrah. At times like this, we tend to wonder how the captain will respond

December 30, 2024 Australia / India

Overnight analysis: Australia v India Boxing Day Test

4 minute readWe can’t tell you how much of our life we’ve sunk into looking at Test match scorecards, thinking about them a bit and then talking to people about what’s been going on in those games. This colossal time investment in one of our greatest passions has been almost infinitely less

Well certainly can't argue they're doing a good job of developing spinners, despite all the Lions tours and spin camps.…

Good push back, KC and I acknowledge there has been work. But firstly - if you have one choice, you…

He went on a Lions tour to Australia this time last year and played all three matches.

Yes. Media in full scapegoat-mode. Despite the general consensus being that the team played better after Noosa than before... But…

Given the capacity they have to exert over playing time and location and the funds at their disposal, they could've…

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

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?