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June 10, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 2. Marcus Trescothick

< 1 minute readWe’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. We’re all expert epidemiologists these days so it’s tempting to think there’s some sort of favourite player infection going on here. Gooch opened with Athers and infected him and then Athers opened with Trescothick and infected him.

June 9, 2020 England

The Realm’s England XI – 1. Mike Atherton

2 minute readWe’re picking an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most. Our very first ‘favourite player’ was Graham Gooch, but that’s less significant than it sounds because he stepped into a void. All that happened was we read some kids’ cricket book that had a ‘hall of fame’

June 8, 2020 England

Pick the team you would support the most: The Realm’s England XI

2 minute readIt’s time for another Sim Series. We’re going to do something a little more personal this time. We’re not going to pick the best possible England team. We’re going to pick an XI comprising the England players we liked the most. Actually that’s not 100 per cent accurate. We’re going

June 7, 2020 England / Features

England’s four weirdest Test picks of the last 20 years

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June 6, 2020 England

Test highlights on BBC2 (and iPlayer) – but no more Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special

2 minute readAs reported back in 2017, the BBC are going to be showing the Test highlights this summer, not Channel 5. They’ll be covering the one-dayers too. The news feels kind of irrelevant at the minute, but actually England v West Indies is due to go ahead from July 8. It

June 6, 2020 England / Features

Ten important questions after watching the trailer for that new England documentary ‘The Edge’

4 minute readThe Edge is a 1997 film starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson and Bart the Bear, a kodiak bear who also starred in Legends of the Fall among other things (actual fact). It is a lost-in-the-wilderness-getting-hunted-by-a-kodiak-bear film. The Edge is also a 2019 documentary about the last England team

June 5, 2020 Features / India

What does your job have in common with playing for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL?

4 minute readYesterday we mentioned our grim office job at a company that was dying on its arse. It later occurred to us that Cricket Fever, the Netflix documentary about the Mumbai Indians, might be the reason why this particular slice of our working life had resurfaced uninvited in the ooze of

June 4, 2020 Australia / Features / South Africa

Breaking down David Warner and Nathan Lyon’s run-out of AB de Villiers – one of the most disrespectful dismissals in history

4 minute readMany things happened during Australia’s win in the first Test of their ill-fated 2018 tour of South Africa. Some of them were cricket, some of them were David Warner falling out with people. The thing that interests us the most – AB de Villiers’ second innings run-out – fell somewhere

June 4, 2020 Match report

An Ashes-themed conversation starter pack on moral and ethical issues (a match report)

2 minute readGed writes: The Heavy Rollers has been a cricket-watching group, primarily at Edgbaston, for more than 20 years. This year, for the first time, we were joined by some antipodean guests of Nigel Father-Barry’s. I hesitate to use the term “the enemy”, but, let’s be frank about it, England cricket

June 3, 2020 Features / Pakistan

Five fantastic, nonsensical or terrible innings that together explain the eternal appeal of Shahid Afridi the batsman

6 minute readBig thanks to everyone who funds King Cricket via our Patreon campaign. We couldn’t justify spending this much time on our features without you. We already know all of the wrong things people are going to say about this article. Some people will say that Shahid Afridi wasn’t a great

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