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  • January 13, 2026 King Cricket

    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.

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  • December 18, 2025 King Cricket

    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

    6 minute readGive us this day our daily treat: 15 to 20 minutes of two 50-something former England captains broadcasting their grey

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  • December 10, 2025 King Cricket

    The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

    2 minute readIt might seem a little odd to be releasing a podcast about a previous ridiculous Ashes series while the current

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  • November 6, 2025 King Cricket

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

    2 minute readOur book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, has now been officially released. You can (and should) buy it –

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  • October 29, 2025 King Cricket

    51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing

    6 minute readaka The Vaughan Supremacy As we’ve already told you (multiple times) we’ve got a book out, co-written with Dan Liebke:

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September 11, 2011 County cricket

Not long now for the County Championship

< 1 minute readThe County Championship will end this week, just so long as the world hasn’t ended before then. The excitement is ripping our reality apart at the seams. When we got up this morning, we weren’t at all surprised to find that our jumper had fallen off the back of a

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September 9, 2011 County cricket

Okay, we don’t want you to be alarmed but…

< 1 minute readWe made ourself a cup of tea this morning, we started drinking it and then we went upstairs for a bit. When we came back down, the mug was empty. No-one else was in the house. We know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say that we were

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September 8, 2011 County cricket

County Championship latest – raised voices outside

< 1 minute readWe’re committed to documenting the effects of the climax of the County Championship, but we’re really starting to fear for our life now. Last night, we heard screaming outside our house. It was these two girls and they were having a MAJOR disagreement. They were so shrieky, we could only

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September 7, 2011 County cricket

The County Championship – now it’s a crisis

< 1 minute readOkay, we don’t want you to worry, but things are really getting out of hand now. The nation is going FULLY MENTAL as we approach the climax of the County Championship. You’d better brace yourself, because the story that follows is pretty damn alarming. Okay, so we were buying a

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September 6, 2011 England / India

Were you doing something else when England played India at the Rose Bowl?

< 1 minute readMaybe you were pipe-cleaner modelling or carrying out wig maintenance. Here’s what you missed: Vinay Kumar seemingly wearing clogs MS Dhoni keeping without a hat on Alastair Cook slogging a single to cow corner off the back foot about 40 times

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September 6, 2011 County cricket

County Championship fever – more evidence

< 1 minute readWe took a walk alongside the canal last night. At one point, a barge went past and the guy at the tiller was clearly SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. He just had that air about him. With the next round of matches starting tomorrow, he was

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September 5, 2011 County cricket

The County Championship title race

< 1 minute readUp and down the country, people are SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. We were in the supermarket at the weekend and we saw this woman shopping with her kid. You could tell that she was super excited about the County Championship and wanted to make sure

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September 3, 2011 Extras

Nasser Hussain describes one or two India players as ‘donkeys’

< 1 minute readThe BCCI are pissed off because Nasser Hussain said some of the India players were donkeys in the field. British viewers will find the comments below pretty innocuous, because ‘donkey’ is pretty common slang over here when referring to less athletic fielders. We’re guessing the term isn’t used so much

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September 2, 2011 County cricket

Warwickshire and their West Indian batsman

< 1 minute readWarwickshire are well poised in the County Championship and as so often with that competition, you can’t really work out how they got there. They sort of bumbled along there or thereabouts for most of the season and then they SIGNED SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL. That’s how it happened. Yes, other people

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September 1, 2011 Australia / Sri Lanka

A good pitch in Galle in Sri Lanka

< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen today’s play in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, but having seen yesterday’s we’re opting to be quietly impressed rather than blown away by Nathan Lyon’s debut, despite the fact that he took 5-34 in Sri Lanka’s first innings. Why? Because he is bowling on

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