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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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  • October 13, 2025 King Cricket

    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

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  • August 27, 2025 King Cricket

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

    7 minute read“It’s going to be hot. It’s going to be flat. Who’s going to break first? Is it going to be

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  • August 21, 2025 King Cricket

    A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

    8 minute readEveryone loves a Combined XI. Yeah, sure, it’s usually a Best XI, but in these parts we deal in Worst

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April 12, 2010 England

Andy Caddick’s Test career – awkward bounce from an awkward bowling action from an awkward bloke

2 minute readWe never wrote about Andy Caddick when he retired. We should have done. Say what you like about Andy Caddick. Say that he was mad as pies; say that he got picked for England because people wanted him there to fix stuff while they were on tour; say he was

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April 11, 2010 County cricket

County cricket players to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readWe’re watching these guys when there isn’t an international match on, which is never: Liam Plunkett Mark Davies Adil Rashid Will Smith Paul Horton Phil Mustard Ravi Bopara

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April 9, 2010 County cricket / England

Ravi Bopara, Essex: first-class batsman to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readThe plight of Ravi Bopara makes an interesting case study. He’s trying to establish himself as a Test cricketer and only Test runs will really persuade anyone that he’s ready. He gets a series of ducks in Tests in Sri Lanka and gets dropped. He promptly makes a one-day double

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April 8, 2010 Match report

South Africa v England, Centurion Test – match report

2 minute readI hadn’t been feeling terribly well, having been off work for a couple of weeks with an ear infection, but had arranged to meet a couple of friends in London on the afternoon of the first day of the series. It was very cold. I think it was snowing. I

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April 8, 2010 County cricket

Phil Mustard: one-day wicketkeeper-batsman to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readSo much of what’s wrong with English cricket can be seen in the never-ending debate about wicketkeepers. First-class cricket’s too weak to show who’s best and because there are so many counties and therefore so many candidates, no player gets much of a run. We are no better informed than

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April 7, 2010 County cricket

Paul Horton: first-class batsman to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readLike Will Smith, Paul Horton’s another who had a 2009 season of less than unbridled success. He did hit 173 in one match, but didn’t do much else. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learnt with these Ones To Watch, it’s that they’re devious bastards and always slip in a

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April 6, 2010 County cricket

Will Smith, Durham: first-class batsman to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readWill Smith was the one batsman who didn’t score runs for Durham last year, which might not immediately mark him out as being worth watching, but the year before that he was arguably their best batsman. We’re putting the mediocre batting down to his being made captain in 2009. It’s

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April 5, 2010 County cricket / England

Adil Rashid, Yorkshire: first-class bowler to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readThe general feeling about Adil Rashid is that maybe everyone should just let him play a bit of cricket. England helped his development no end last season by keeping him out of the majority of Yorkshire’s matches so that he could not play for them instead. Occasionally they let him

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April 4, 2010 County cricket

Mark Davies, Durham: first-class bowler to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readMark Davies’ 19 wickets at 29.57 last year was a woeful return by his standards, but an overall first-class record that reads 251 wickets at 21.68 is as good as it gets. Mark’s 30 this year, so this will be his fourth and final appearance in our Ones To Watch.

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April 3, 2010 County cricket

Liam Plunkett, Durham: a first-class bowler for 2010

< 1 minute readLiam Plunkett’s a bit of a batsman as well, but his bowling is what matters. Of Durham’s many fine bowlers, Onions, Harmison and Blackwell all averaged less than Plunkett last season, but only Harmison took more wickets. Plunkett’s average of 24.83 was hardly shameful either. Although Plunkett’s age seems to

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    They've already made a documentary about the first Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSuWei9_E4

  2. King Cricket on Zak Crawley v Mitchell Starc: Crawley is due. But what is he due exactly? Another pair?November 28, 2025

    If nothing else, he has been one of the most interesting and colourful selections. And it ain't over yet!

  3. Professor Colin Abernathy on Zak Crawley v Mitchell Starc: Crawley is due. But what is he due exactly? Another pair?November 28, 2025

    Like England, I’ve invested (emotionally) a lot in Crawley, almost wholly on the basis that he’s likely to be the…

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