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  • January 7, 2021 King Cricket

    What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket

    England v Australia, third Test, day four It’s six or out… … It’s six! Jonathan Agnew, Test Match Special Have

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  • December 14, 2020 King Cricket

    Let’s try and identify England’s purest and greatest bits and pieces cricketer

    A bits-and-pieces cricketer is a player who wouldn’t warrant a place in the side as a batsman or a bowler

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  • November 24, 2020 King Cricket

    The Awkwardest Squad: Why the 96/97 “flippin’ murdered ’em” tour of Zimbabwe was peak 90s England (a net bowler’s story)

    Big thanks to everyone who funds the site through our Patreon campaign. We couldn’t justify spending this much time on

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  • November 18, 2020 King Cricket

    Goldenarms: The best part-time bowlers in the history of Test cricket

    All-rounders are great, but part-time bowlers are more entertaining. Bowlers have to bat in Test cricket, even though they are

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  • October 28, 2020 King Cricket

    Which Australia player was least happy about rewatching their Headingley 2019 nightmare?

    The day after Ben Stokes and Jack Leach at Headingley in 2019, Australia coach Justin Langer forced his players to

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December 9, 2020 Australia

Australia might again be poor enough that they’ll feel like they have to pick Shaun Marsh

Sometimes there’s a man. We won’t say a hero, because what’s a hero? But sometimes there’s a man – and we’re talking about Shaun Marsh here. Sometimes there’s a man… well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s Shaun Marsh. If there’s

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December 7, 2020 Regulars

A cricket bat lurking on a street corner

Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Feel free to put the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. (In fact we actively encourage it – we don’t get anywhere near enough of those ones.) Daisy writes: Ged and I were driving

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December 5, 2020 New Zealand / West Indies

Double talk with Kane Williamson

It’s a Lord Megachief of Gold-fest down at Seddon Park this week. Neil Wagner (2019) is doing his usual thing, while Jason Holder (2018) has had a slightly less wonderful time. But it’s Kane Williamson (2015) who has been most influential. We’ve been thinking about double hundreds a bit recently

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December 4, 2020 Extras

We’ve tweaked the King Cricket crowdfunder – and you might want to make a tweak too

Most of you know that this website is largely funded by donations. There are a few ads, but most of the good stuff that appears on the site appears because a few dozen patrons pledge a bit of money each month and that money gives us an excuse to spend

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December 2, 2020 England / South Africa

Dawid Malan has used ‘being the best batsman in the world’ as a stepping stone to competence

It’s like they always say: being the top-ranked batsman in the world can be a real confidence-booster and may even help you secure a place in the first team. When Dawid Malan became the number one batsman in T20 internationals in September, the general reaction could be summed up as,

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November 30, 2020 England / South Africa

Temba Bavuma’s ramp shot is not polished

Temba Bavuma has contributed all of 18 runs to the current T20 series between South Africa and England, so it’s odd that he should be responsible for one of the recurring highlights. His ramp shot is undeniably that though. This is how Temba Bavuma played a ramp shot in the

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November 28, 2020 England / South Africa

Jonny Bairstow proves he should open and also bat at four

Our rule with white ball cricket is that if you’re bearing down on a World Cup, you pay attention to that particular format, and then immediately stop paying attention afterwards. The competition currently known as the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is due to take place in October 2021. Being

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November 25, 2020 Australia

The real motivation for Steve Smith’s elaborate pre-delivery fidgeting routine REVEALED

Steve Smith’s pad-tapping, box-adjusting pre-delivery fidget routine is really quite something. And now, finally, we know why he does it. “I think it’s left pad, right pad, box, one tap in the middle, two behind my foot, look up, two behind my foot, look up, one… good to go.” That’s

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November 24, 2020 England / Features / Zimbabwe

The Awkwardest Squad: Why the 96/97 “flippin’ murdered ’em” tour of Zimbabwe was peak 90s England (a net bowler’s story)

Big thanks to everyone who funds the site through our Patreon campaign. We couldn’t justify spending this much time on a King Cricket article without you. Remember 1996? Things were very different in 1996. Back in 1996 Leonardo Dicaprio from The Revenant and Claire Danes from Homeland seemed like a

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November 23, 2020 Extras

What exactly did Matthew Hayden say when he was “in conversation with the mystic”?

If you don’t know Indian yogi and author “Sadhguru” (Jaggi Vasudev), he’s kind of a big deal. The Isha Foundation that he set up in 1992 is said to have over nine million volunteers. A lot of people like Sadhguru. They think he’s wise. In August 2019, Sadhguru agreed to

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