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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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July 3, 2025 England / India

Shubman Gill seems only half angry about hitting Test hundreds

3 minute readWhenever there’s a new Test captain, it’s impossible to suppress comparisons with their predecessors. Rohit Sharma never seemed too angry about hitting hundreds (who knows, he may even have enjoyed them). But Virat Kohli? Man, he was absolutely bloody furious about reaching three figures. The early signs are that Shubman

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July 1, 2025 England / India

Will India serve up their Jasprit Bumrah eggs in time?

3 minute readThe big news ahead of the second Test at Edgbaston is that Jasprit Bumrah is eggs and somehow this is useful. (It’s probably a blessing that Rohit Sharma’s retired.) “We feel we can go 1-1 or keep the score at 1-0 without Jasprit,” said India’s assistant coach, Ryan ten Doeschate.

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June 26, 2025 England / India

Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 overs

3 minute readEngland achieved a couple of things at Headingley. Most obviously, they won – but they also did so while compelling Jasprit Bumrah to bowl really quite a lot of overs. That’s an investment that might pay dividends later in the series. Unleashed! It’s easy being a really good batter because

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June 25, 2025 England / India

The late show: How Josh Tongue (kinda) outbowled Jasprit Bumrah in that Test match

2 minute readIt feels like Josh Tongue arrived for this match bang on eight hours late. But did he let prolonged abject non-contribution to his team’s cause dissuade him from bagging a hatful? No, for some reason, he did not. Tongue gleefully licked up rabbit pie, according to the peculiarly nauseating mime

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June 23, 2025 England / India

Did you see… Harry Brook charge Jasprit Bumrah?

3 minute readWe generally prefer to highlight less obvious moments, but this one seems a perfect synopsis of why this has already been a top rate Test. It was two uncanny cricketers with their own peculiar ways of going about things taking each other on within a match where you’re never quite

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June 20, 2025 England / India

Mind fodder: Five things to think about as England take on India in a big ol’ five-Test series

3 minute readEngland v India. Five Tests. Man alive, there’s scope for some stuff here. We’re only stopping at five with this article because if we send the email any later, you’ll all end up paying attention to THE WRONG THINGS and we’d never forgive ourself. Rishabh Pant v Shoaib Bashir In

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June 19, 2025 England

If Ollie Pope is metamorphosising into historic Lloyd Pope then which Pope is modern day Lloyd Pope becoming?

2 minute readEngland have stuck with Ollie Pope as their number three batter. However, growing numbers of people are worried that he’s metamorphosising into Australian leg-spinner, Lloyd Pope – or at least the version of Lloyd Pope from seven years ago.  At the start of the summer, Ben Stokes seemed to momentarily

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June 18, 2025 Match report

Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match report

3 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.) Inveterate King Cricket match reporter, Ged Ladd, writes… I spent

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June 16, 2025 Australia / South Africa

Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South Africa

3 minute readIt feels like South Africa threw the World Test Championship Final away more times than Australia. It’s just that when Australia threw it away, they did so decisively. To recap all the throws, South Africa, in their position as underdogs, very definitely threw the match away in their first innings

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June 12, 2025 Australia / South Africa

Crucial Session Watch | World Test Championship Final, day two

2 minute readOoh, it’s a crucial session coming up, isn’t it? It promises to be a great, great morning for fans of commentators saying, ‘it’s a crucial session coming up’. Before the World Test Championship Final began, a lot of the selection intrigue centred on who exactly should get to stand at

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  • 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 wrongDecember 18, 2025
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  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
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  1. Mike on 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 wrongDecember 19, 2025

    Agree. It's the best coverage of the best coverage. Top work as ever.

  2. Buttface on 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 wrongDecember 19, 2025

    There are other means of watching the test matches live (TNT and Fox Sports - I splutter on the last,…

  3. Mike on 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 wrongDecember 19, 2025

    At least if Alex Carey reaches three figures tomorrow he won't be the first player to register 100 in both…

  4. Ged Ladd on 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 wrongDecember 19, 2025

    Yup. The same Oz broadcaster that deems Snicko adequate. The thought of counting Aussie batsmen’s nose hairs might well put…

  5. King Cricket on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 19, 2025

    Yeah, we guess the sticking with players regardless of form has persisted - except for the one player, Bashir, who…

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