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October 26, 2025 England / India

Sophie Ecclestone in the micro-est-cosm; Harry Brook leading from the front; and the ghosts of Rohit and Kohli | Mop-up of the day

3 minute readWe love Sophie Ecclestone, but today’s misfortune feels very on-brand. Rightly or wrongly (but probably, if we’re brutally honest, more rightly than wrongly) Ecclestone became the public face of England’s fitness and fielding frailties when she refused to do an interview with critic Alex Hartley during last winter’s Ashes. Since

Cummins, coffee, Christmas? Broad, beer, bog? Some FAQs about The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

4 minute readWe’ve been asked a lot of questions about our book The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments. We’ve also made up a few. If you’ve any further questions, ask away in the comments section and maybe we’ll tackle them in a follow-up. 1. What’s it about? Come on, that’s not a

October 20, 2025 England / India

Knightmare: But the only way is onward after Heather’s “ooh nasty” year

3 minute readHeather Knight’s year began with an Ashes defeat in which England lost every match. It then progressed to losing the captaincy, after which she utterly knackered one of her legs. Never mind taking a step forwards, a sidestep would have been nice. (Not that she’d have been capable with that

October 15, 2025 England / Pakistan

Charlie Dean valiantly and innovatively forces Pakistan to use fielders

2 minute readFor a while there, it looked like two of the three main cricket disciplines were going to be enough for Pakistan. Tammy Beaumont got bowled, Amy Jones got bowled and Nat Sciver-Brunt got bowled. At this point, Heather Knight called on all her years of experience and came up with

October 13, 2025 England / Features / India

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 whether we can perceive a vague yet coherent picture. There’s no analysis here. We offer no conclusions. At best, it’s an exercise that might get you half a step closer

October 8, 2025 Extras

Carrying [beer with] your bat news

2 minute readAs the world’s foremost authority on ‘things with holes in which can carry multiple pints of beer at cricket matches’ we bring you news! And not just any class of news. We bring you the very finest form of news: third-hand news. Sam emailed to say: “Spotted at Taunton. Not

October 6, 2025 Australia / England

The 52nd most ridiculous Ashes moment: Mark Waugh replaces Steve Waugh

< 1 minute readWe originally pitched The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments as The 52 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments in honour of Rob Key’s half century in the 2002 Boxing Day Test that so triumphantly denied Australia an innings victory and forced them to bat a second time. Alas, Affirm Press fought us

October 3, 2025 England

Will Charlotte Edwards’ England play well enough to wash away all these meaningless lines in the sand they’ve been making?

2 minute readSand drawing is best left to the ni-Vanuatu. You want to make a line that people will pay attention to, etch it in stone or something. This time last year, England were knocked out of the T20 World Cup in the group stages. Their final match, against the West Indies,

October 2, 2025 Match report

Match Report: Ireland vs England, 2nd T20, Malahide

< 1 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Chuck writes… Malahide, cricket and I can only mean two

September 29, 2025 Extras / Regulars

England’s and Australia’s top three most ridiculous Ashes captains

2 minute readNewer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer, Dan Liebke, because we haven’t actually produced any episodes in almost two years. The sizeable gap came about because we’ve been spending all of our podcasting time writing a book together instead – The 50