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  • March 30, 2021 King Cricket

    Danish Kaneria or Dane Vilas – who is most Danish?

    Danish Kaneria is a Pakistani cricketer who has been banned from the sport for life for spot-fixing. Dane Vilas is

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  • March 24, 2021 King Cricket

    England’s eight most surprising double hundreds since Graham Gooch’s 333

    Graham Gooch’s 333 against India at Lord’s in 1990 was the first eye-wateringly big innings we can remember. The idea

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  • March 10, 2021 King Cricket

    Why it is only now dawning on England fans that their team plays way too many games

    Turns out people don’t like squad rotation. Not when you call it that anyway. Test Match Special can be a

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  • February 20, 2021 King Cricket

    Four of the weirdest eight-fors of the last 25 years (plus one nine-for and one ten-for)

    There have been 28 occasions in the last 25 years when a bowler has taken eight wickets or more in

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  • February 10, 2021 King Cricket

    Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?

    “I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary,” said Jimmy Anderson about an over that featured one of the

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February 13, 2021 England / India

Did you see… Virat Kohli after Moeen Ali clean bowled him for a duck?

Virat Kohli is a man who struggles to come to terms with being bowled. We assumed we’d already seen Kohli’s finest “I’ve just been bowled” face. And maybe, for a pure, single facial expression conveying sheer bafflement that such a thing could possibly have happened, the face he produced after

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February 12, 2021 England / India

Squad rotation (and team turmoil) – looking ahead (and back)

We both utterly detest squad rotation and completely agree with it. We’d like to live in a world where it isn’t necessary. But it is. We predicted squad rotation years ago, but it’s still only really seeping into the sport even now. Most teams do little more than flirt with

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February 10, 2021 England / Features / India

Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?

“I didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary,” said Jimmy Anderson about an over that featured one of the finest clean-bowleds you’re ever likely to see, then another one that may or may not have been better, plus an LBW shout that could legitimately have been given sandwiched in

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February 8, 2021 England / India

People are getting really bloody lazy with their DRS hand signals and we’re not having it

This is maybe not people’s top concern at the minute, but cricketers are getting really half-arsed with their decision review system (DRS) hand signals these days. When a batsman or captain disagrees with an on-field umpire’s decision, they are now permitted to question their authoritah. To signal that they wish

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February 8, 2021 Bangladesh / West Indies

Kyle Mayers and why sometimes a great entrance is enough

It may have passed you by, but they made a Jesus Quintana film a year or so ago. It isn’t very good. That’s a shame but it doesn’t really matter because sometimes an entrance is all you need. If you haven’t seen The Big Lebowski, the Jesus Quintana scene –

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February 6, 2021 England / India

Did you see… Joe Root standing at the other end?

Where are we now with Joe Root hundreds? Last month we were asking at what point a Joe Root innings becomes noteworthy? Our point was that a mere hundred from Root doesn’t really feel like big news any more. It needs to be at least a ‘daddy’ hundred for people

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February 5, 2021 England / India

Test Cricket on Channel 4 – a review of the free-to-air coverage of day one of India v England

Earlier this week, Channel 4 weren’t due to broadcast the Test series between India and England. Then, suddenly, a couple of days ago, they were. This doesn’t represent a great deal of prep time. How did day one go? Let’s take look at the live coverage, the studio bits and

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February 4, 2021 England / India

Six things to watch out for during the India v England Test series on Channel 4

England are touring India and it’s on Channel 4. Here’s what you need to know ahead of the series (which starts on Friday). First, a quick recap of where we are right now and how things have gone in the past. India just beat Australia away from home despite suffering

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February 3, 2021 England / India

Channel 4 showing the India v England Tests* and Mambo No.5 – Mop-up of the day

We’re very excited to discover what level of certainty we’ll hit today with regards to Channel 4 broadcasting the India v England series. At the time of writing, we’re still at “it is understood that” with no official word from the broadcaster and the unit of measurement for the countdown

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February 1, 2021 Regulars

King Ghidorah being conspicuously indifferent to a pile of cricket books

Email readers: Sorry you’ll have to click through to the website to see the photo. Probably should have mentioned that about a year ago when we first realised that the ‘featured image’ doesn’t appear. Miriam writes: Here’s my cat King Ghidorah being conspicuously indifferent to a pile of cricket books.

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