King Cricket

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

September 18, 2025 Australia / England

The three silliest things Andrew McDonald said about Pat Cummins this week

2 minute readLook, every publication’s got its own way of covering Pat Cummins’ back injury and its possible impact on his participation in the Ashes. This is ours. (For what it’s worth, we have long suspected that for all the column inches devoted to them both, Cummins and Ben Stokes won’t be

September 15, 2025 County cricket

Are Surrey going to win the County Championship without hitting hundreds, taking wickets or winning games?

2 minute readThe draw is an unloved thing. No-one sings songs about finishing level because you’ve run out of time. You don’t get impassioned speeches of the oeuvre, ‘maybe it’ll rain this afternoon and we’ll get away with this one’. But draws are still important – some years more than others. Back

September 11, 2025 County cricket

The answer! The County Championship’s structural problems SOLVED

3 minute readYou’re no doubt aware that the counties are currently having a big old argument about how to alter the County Championship for future seasons. (And if you aren’t already aware, you’d surely assume that was the case anyway, because when have they not been arguing about that?) It’s been said

September 8, 2025 England

Even after scoring a hundred, Jacob Bethell isn’t doing his job

3 minute readJacob Bethell finally scored his first professional hundred and did so in fine style. He’s still not doing his job in England’s one-day team though, because he’s being picked as half an all-rounder. Even at this early juncture, it feels like there isn’t a right lot to say about Bethell’s

September 4, 2025 County cricket

The counties are pointlessly arguing the finer points of yet another impenetrable bonkers compromise. This is exactly why we ended up with The Hundred

5 minute readIt’s county cricket revamp discussion season again. Except really it’s always county cricket revamp discussion season. When we reported on county cricket’s latest structural review on the first day of the season, we expressed not so much scepticism that anything meaningful might come of it, but cast iron certainty that

September 3, 2025 England

Sonny Baker: first look in ODIs

3 minute readWe don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from players’ debuts – but we report on them anyway. We’ve never done one of these for limited overs cricket before, but Sonny Baker’s debut warrants comment as one of the most bathetic (yes, bathetic – not pathetic) entrances you’ll see. Baker had

Loving yer work, KC, and looking forward to the arrival of your book at our door. Daisy and I so…

How do we feel about the strategy of the men's team 'warming up' for the Ashes in NZ? Meanwhile good…

Not at all the point here, we know, but Halifax is an underrated destination.

My own first book had similar qualities, both in content (yes, toilet) and medium (shiny paper). But please don’t make…

We've got to be honest, it's pretty shiny. (Did we mention the full colour photography?) Wouldn't recommend.

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

Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?

A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

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Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing