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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

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

September 26, 2025 County cricket

You want the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined? Peter Moores can get you the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined

3 minute readThere are ways, dude. You don’t wanna know about it. Hell, he can get you the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined by three o’clock this afternoon. There are pluses and minuses to the coaching of Peter Moores, who has just taken Nottinghamshire to the 2025 County Championship title. It’s just

September 24, 2025 Australia / England

Harry Brook’s Ashes all-rounder isn’t as good as Ben Stokes’s – but his fast bowling attack might be better

4 minute readThere is no Ashes tour moment quite so clean as the naming of the squad when the wheels are still on and everyone’s fully fit – everyone that is except for Ben Stokes (shoulder), Will Jacks (broken finger) and Mark Wood (most joints). Jacks is for us the most noteworthy

September 22, 2025 County cricket

Seasonal fluctuations: Counties think it’s summer, but England say it’s winter

2 minute readWhat will Notts’ and Surrey’s best bowlers do this week with the County Championship on the line? One thing they won’t do is play cricket. Mid September is something of a seasonal warzone. Meterologists say it’s autumn, while astronomers say you’ve still got a week or two of summer until