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  • January 30, 2025 King Cricket

    In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis Head

    7 minute readIs there a less showy attacking batter than Australia’s Travis Head? Australia picked a new opener not so long ago

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  • January 16, 2025 King Cricket

    Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowler

    5 minute readWe may or may not have caught up with Mark Wood to talk about his interest in wood. It’s a

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  • January 10, 2025 King Cricket

    23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024

    7 minute readIt was a hell of a year. Probably. Who can honestly remember 12 months’ worth of stuff, let alone assign

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  • January 8, 2025 King Cricket

    Lord Megachief of Gold 2024

    4 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over

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  • December 6, 2024 King Cricket

    Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?

    6 minute readBrooks aren’t ordinarily associated with peaks – they tend to run beneath them – but Harry Brook might already be

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January 2, 2020 England

Four-day Test matches diminish the epic scale that is the format’s greatest strength

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December 31, 2019 New Zealand

Neil Wagner: Lord Megachief of Gold 2019

3 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over the previous calendar year. Here are all the winners.

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December 24, 2019 Australia / England / New Zealand / South Africa

The real highlights of the 2019 Boxing Day Tests

4 minute readFor clarity and brevity: yes, this is the through-the-Boxing-Day-Tests thread. This article will (probably) be updated (semi) regularly as the South Africa v England and Australia v New Zealand matches progress.

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December 19, 2019 England

Can you name England’s seven walk-on part England spinners of the 2010s?

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December 19, 2019 Extras

England go Wagner, Azhar Ali enjoys captaincy and Pat Cummins makes many crores | Mop-up of the day

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December 18, 2019 County cricket

The Hundred: Does a two-and-a-half minute break in a game of cricket actually constitute a ‘time-out’?

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December 17, 2019 Extras

AB de Villiers Retirement Watch, emails and answers | Mop-up of the day

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December 14, 2019 England

Is Ben Foakes being treated fairly by England?

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December 10, 2019 Regulars

A cricket ball in Netflix’s Designated Survivor

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk Hoopy writes: After deciding I was going to waste a Saturday between mowing the lawn, chatting shit to mates, finishing Borderlands 2 (again) and watching telly, I came up with this. It’s a scene from

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December 9, 2019 Extras

The King Cricket Retired Cricketer From Several Years Back Crossword

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  1. Tim on Can this website really report on the “escalating tensions” between India and Pakistan by refracting it through the lens of the PSL and IPL?May 9, 2025

    Expect Cricinfo to lead the ceasefire negotiations as their page views dry up. I hope there are some such negotiations,…

  2. Sam on Two remarkable things about Ethan Bamber as Warwickshire move up to secondMay 8, 2025

    Jim Troughton’s grandfather, of course, played The Doctor in Doctor Who. Could it be that having a thespian bloodline is…

  3. King Cricket on Rohit Sharma: all over the place as a Test batter, less annoying than Virat Kohli as a Test captainMay 8, 2025

    Man, we're glad you didn't land that before his retirement. You saved us all an awful lot of annoying ear-wormery.

  4. Sam Blackledge on Rohit Sharma: all over the place as a Test batter, less annoying than Virat Kohli as a Test captainMay 8, 2025

    Sometimes it felt as if he would simply blend into the background. Sharma Chameleon, if you will.

  5. King Cricket on Two remarkable things about Ethan Bamber as Warwickshire move up to secondMay 8, 2025

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