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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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  • 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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December 7, 2009 India

Are India the best Test cricket team at the moment?

< 1 minute readWe’d say India have as good a claim as anyone to being the best Test cricket team at the moment. Batting Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and Mahendra Dhoni. This is not shit. They’re all fantastic batsmen and they’re all different. We mean they’re all

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December 6, 2009 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

When Freddie Became Jesus

< 1 minute readJarrod Kimber from Cricket With Balls has written another book. We’ve not actually read it yet, but we feel we’re on pretty safe ground recommending it. If you’ve read his site, you know the kind of thing to expect. The book is about the 2009 Ashes series and being as

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December 5, 2009 County cricket / England

Mark Davies’ England call-up demands some new exclamations

< 1 minute readOne to watch veteran, Mark Davies, has finally been called into the England squad. If he plays a Test, it is not acceptable to use mundane exclamations like ‘well bowled!’ The obvious substitutes are ‘hammer of Thor!‘ and ‘great Odin’s raven!‘ but if you tire of shouting those, here are

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December 4, 2009 India / Pakistan / West Indies

Three ways in which we’ve been right in the last 24 hours

< 1 minute readThis is quite unusual. We’re not usually right about stuff. Normally, you can ask us questions about things that have happened to us and we’ll get the answers wrong. “Did Dan tell you he was moving to Australia?” “No!” [Long pause] “Don’t think so.” [Another long pause] “Well, maybe…” Dwayne

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December 4, 2009 India

Virender Sehwag is a bastard and here’s why

< 1 minute readVirender Sehwag is a bastard because he plays too many good innings to keep track of and there aren’t enough superlatives to spread among them. Consider this: Sehwag’s last Test innings was 131. That was a failure. His first four Test hundreds were all under 150; all failures. After that,

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December 4, 2009 India

Virender Sehwag is what Test cricket is all about

< 1 minute readVirender Sehwag: 284 not out overnight. This was Test cricket. The Sri Lankan players couldn’t just soak it up for 20 overs before seeing if they could do better. This problem wasn’t going away. But what they had to endure almost all day, the crowd got to enjoy all day

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December 3, 2009 Bangladesh / England / West Indies

The five best all-rounders over the next five years

< 1 minute readNot sure we’ve got Imran Khan or Garry Sobers on the cards, but it’s not looking bad. Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh, age 22 As a cricket-writer, we’re worried there’ll be no words left in a few years time, because they’ll all have been eaten by Bangladesh criticisers. Shakib Al Hasan

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December 2, 2009 County cricket

Beware the fury of Sussex County Cricket Club

< 1 minute readThe BBC are reporting that Sussex are furious with Surrey because the latter approached one of their players. Sussex chairman, Jim May, was red-faced with fury, ranting: “The approach is unwelcome and the timing very unfortunate.” Peppering the interviewer with flecks of spit and bile, May’s rage later reached its

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December 1, 2009 Match report

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Cape Cobras match report

2 minute readDapper Dan writes: My day began as most of my days have begun recently: Girlfriend’s alarm goes off at 6.15am, she gets up, goes in shower, I go back to sleep. Girlfriend leaves for work approximately 7.15am, wakes me up to say goodbye, I go back to sleep. Sunlight in

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November 30, 2009 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Ask Bearders by Bill Frindall | book review

2 minute readWe were supposed to review this ages ago. Note to publishers: don’t push cricket stuff during the Ashes. We know it’s the cricket Christmas, but everyone’s a bit busy. Ask Bearders is subtitled Answers to the World’s Most Challenging Cricket Questions. It’s a compilation of Bill Frindall’s columns for the

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  1. Ed Lamb on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 22, 2025

    Obviously anyone can get injured, but it’s annoying Anderson was jettisoned and then Woakes got injured. The wickets have been…

  2. Micko on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 22, 2025

    It's worth noting that the two most recent series defeats Australia has had at home were to India. Whilst there…

  3. King Cricket on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 22, 2025

    That's partly true. They'd argue they did quite a lot with him, but then they did set themselves a stiff…

  4. Pettsvaldo on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 22, 2025

    "As with several other things, they saw one possible sequence of events where he would become a more threatening option…

  5. Pettsvaldo on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 22, 2025

    At the risk of being unnecessarily reductive, the England players aren't very good and the Australian players are.

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