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February 5, 2026 England

What shall we do with the drunken captain of the HMS McCullum? Chuck him in the long boat ’til he’s sober? Or just leave him alone to pursue a T20 World Cup win?

3 minute readWe’re inclined to agree with Brendon McCullum that it’s “quite annoying” there’s currently so much focus on the night Harry Brook got chinned by a bouncer. We would however disagree with his assessment that it’s all about the specific players involved and that, “piling on to them is not helpful

February 4, 2026 Regulars

A Device-like cricket-style bat in a Mexican corrido music video

2 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Please consider putting the cricket thing in the unusual place yourself. Stalwart King Cricket contributor Ged Ladd writes… Regular readers of this website will be familiar with “The Device,” a beer-carrying contraption that King Cricket and family

January 30, 2026 Extras

Exclusive: Rob Key fails to attain even second billing to Nasser Hussain at a restaurant – a new career low

2 minute readRob Key hasn’t been having a dynamite time of late and it just got worse. King Cricket reader Paul writes… As a long time reader, I’m aware you are a huge supporter of Rob Key and his contribution to cricket, so I thought it wise to bring to your attention

January 28, 2026 County cricket / India

The Hundred’s having a player auction so that it can be even more like a watered-down version of the IPL

3 minute readThe IPL has been such a colossal success, it makes total sense to slavishly copy every aspect of it so that it’s much easier for everyone to make direct comparisons and see exactly how your short format competition pales in comparison. The Hundred’s going to start having auctions, everyone! If

January 22, 2026 India

Lord Megachief of Gold 2025

5 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over the previous calendar year. Here are all the winners. Ben Stokes earned the Lord Megachief of Gold 2022 title largely off the back of his transformational captaincy of an England team

January 19, 2026 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Book review: The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments by Dan Liebke and Alex Bowden, foreword by Pat Cummins

3 minute readWe don’t often review cricket books these days because reading about cricket is not generally what we want to do once we’ve finished reading about cricket for the day. King Cricket reader Sam Blackledge has read one though and he sent us this review. Journalism has come a long way in recent

January 15, 2026 Australia / England

Steve Smith, Mitch Marsh, Jonny Bairstow and Joe Denly… now THAT was a fifth Ashes Test

< 1 minute readIf you’ve developed a taste for fifth Ashes Test dead rubbers then good news! We’ve a contrived one to tell you about. The final episode of the latest series of our Ridiculous Ashes podcast is now up and (spoiler!) there was nothing to play for but pride (in one’s own

January 13, 2026 Australia / England / Features

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

5 minute readHarry Brook walked out at 8-3 in England’s first innings in Melbourne. Mitchell Starc ran in and bowled at 145.1km/h. Brook ran at it, swung with all his might… and completely missed it. It was one of the most glorious arrivals we can ever remember seeing. This was, let’s be

January 8, 2026 Australia / England

Did you see… Steve Smith backed into a corner by the legendary finger spin of Will Jacks?

5 minute read“I hate doing it,” claimed Steve Smith at the toss. “But as I’ve said, we keep producing wickets that we don’t think is going to spin.” As it turned out, the more accurate assessment came from Ben Stokes. “We try and act like we know what we’re doing when we’re

January 6, 2026 Australia / England

They got there in the end: England have finally brought a timeless, familiar, seemingly unavoidable brand of agony to this Ashes series

2 minute readFinally, belatedly, on day three of the fifth Test, the normal Ashes began: flat pitch, hot sun… how are you going to handle this? Australia handled it with bats in their hands. England handled it the way they’ve so often handled it in the past: with an endlessly rotating cast

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

What shall we do with the drunken captain of the HMS McCullum? Chuck him in the long boat ’til he’s sober? Or just leave him alone to pursue a T20 World Cup win?

A Device-like cricket-style bat in a Mexican corrido music video

Exclusive: Rob Key fails to attain even second billing to Nasser Hussain at a restaurant – a new career low

The Hundred’s having a player auction so that it can be even more like a watered-down version of the IPL

Lord Megachief of Gold 2025

Book review: The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments by Dan Liebke and Alex Bowden, foreword by Pat Cummins

Steve Smith, Mitch Marsh, Jonny Bairstow and Joe Denly… now THAT was a fifth Ashes Test

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

Did you see… Steve Smith backed into a corner by the legendary finger spin of Will Jacks?

They got there in the end: England have finally brought a timeless, familiar, seemingly unavoidable brand of agony to this Ashes series

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