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October 3, 2025 England

Will Charlotte Edwards’ England play well enough to wash away all these meaningless lines in the sand they’ve been making?

2 minute readSand drawing is best left to the ni-Vanuatu. You want to make a line that people will pay attention to, etch it in stone or something. This time last year, England were knocked out of the T20 World Cup in the group stages. Their final match, against the West Indies,

October 2, 2025 Match report

Match Report: Ireland vs England, 2nd T20, Malahide

< 1 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.) Chuck writes… Malahide, cricket and I can only mean two

September 29, 2025 Extras / Regulars

England’s and Australia’s top three most ridiculous Ashes captains

2 minute readNewer readers will be entirely unaware that we sometimes do a podcast with Australian writer, Dan Liebke, because we haven’t actually produced any episodes in almost two years. The sizeable gap came about because we’ve been spending all of our podcasting time writing a book together instead – The 50

September 26, 2025 County cricket

You want the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined? Peter Moores can get you the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined

3 minute readThere are ways, dude. You don’t wanna know about it. Hell, he can get you the Haseeb Hameed you always imagined by three o’clock this afternoon. There are pluses and minuses to the coaching of Peter Moores, who has just taken Nottinghamshire to the 2025 County Championship title. It’s just

September 24, 2025 Australia / England

Harry Brook’s Ashes all-rounder isn’t as good as Ben Stokes’s – but his fast bowling attack might be better

4 minute readThere is no Ashes tour moment quite so clean as the naming of the squad when the wheels are still on and everyone’s fully fit – everyone that is except for Ben Stokes (shoulder), Will Jacks (broken finger) and Mark Wood (most joints). Jacks is for us the most noteworthy

September 22, 2025 County cricket

Seasonal fluctuations: Counties think it’s summer, but England say it’s winter

2 minute readWhat will Notts’ and Surrey’s best bowlers do this week with the County Championship on the line? One thing they won’t do is play cricket. Mid September is something of a seasonal warzone. Meterologists say it’s autumn, while astronomers say you’ve still got a week or two of summer until

September 18, 2025 Australia / England

The three silliest things Andrew McDonald said about Pat Cummins this week

2 minute readLook, every publication’s got its own way of covering Pat Cummins’ back injury and its possible impact on his participation in the Ashes. This is ours. (For what it’s worth, we have long suspected that for all the column inches devoted to them both, Cummins and Ben Stokes won’t be

September 15, 2025 County cricket

Are Surrey going to win the County Championship without hitting hundreds, taking wickets or winning games?

2 minute readThe draw is an unloved thing. No-one sings songs about finishing level because you’ve run out of time. You don’t get impassioned speeches of the oeuvre, ‘maybe it’ll rain this afternoon and we’ll get away with this one’. But draws are still important – some years more than others. Back

September 11, 2025 County cricket

The answer! The County Championship’s structural problems SOLVED

3 minute readYou’re no doubt aware that the counties are currently having a big old argument about how to alter the County Championship for future seasons. (And if you aren’t already aware, you’d surely assume that was the case anyway, because when have they not been arguing about that?) It’s been said

September 8, 2025 England

Even after scoring a hundred, Jacob Bethell isn’t doing his job

3 minute readJacob Bethell finally scored his first professional hundred and did so in fine style. He’s still not doing his job in England’s one-day team though, because he’s being picked as half an all-rounder. Even at this early juncture, it feels like there isn’t a right lot to say about Bethell’s

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The Sheffield Sheepish Splitter Sods.

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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)

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