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    June 6, 2020 King Cricket

    Ten important questions after watching the trailer for that new England documentary ‘The Edge’

    The Edge is a 1997 film starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson and Bart the Bear, a kodiak bear

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  • June 5, 2020 King Cricket

    What does your job have in common with playing for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL?

    Yesterday we mentioned our grim office job at a company that was dying on its arse. It later occurred to

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  • June 4, 2020 King Cricket

    Breaking down David Warner and Nathan Lyon’s run-out of AB de Villiers – one of the most disrespectful dismissals in history

    Many things happened during Australia’s win in the first Test of their ill-fated 2018 tour of South Africa. Some of

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  • June 3, 2020 King Cricket

    Five fantastic, nonsensical or terrible innings that together explain the eternal appeal of Shahid Afridi the batsman

    Big thanks to everyone who funds King Cricket via our Patreon campaign. We couldn’t justify spending this much time on

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  • May 27, 2020 King Cricket

    Remembering Murali at the Oval in 98: The match when a true one-off revealed the awe-inspiring extent of his powers

    In 1998 Muttiah Muralitharan took 16 wickets in a Test match against England at the Oval. But honestly that isn’t

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June 22, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 10. James Anderson

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. Once upon a time we worked on

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June 19, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 9. Steve Harmison

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. We were watching a Sky thing the

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June 18, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 8. Darren Gough

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. Darren Gough at eight is… well, it’s

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June 17, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 7. Matt Prior

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. We’ve got to be honest, there was

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June 16, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 6. Andy Flintoff

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. It’s easy to overthink these things. Let’s

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June 15, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 5. Paul Collingwood

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. In 2017 we launched a campaign for

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June 12, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 4. Graeme Hick

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. Graeme Hick was the best batsman in

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June 11, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 3. Rob Key

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. In 2002 Steve Waugh said of Rob

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June 10, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 2. Marcus Trescothick

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. We’re all expert epidemiologists these days so

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June 9, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 1. Mike Atherton

We’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. Our very first ‘favourite player’ was Graham

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