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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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  • August 27, 2025 King Cricket

    Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?

    7 minute read“It’s going to be hot. It’s going to be flat. Who’s going to break first? Is it going to be

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  • August 21, 2025 King Cricket

    A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down Under

    8 minute readEveryone loves a Combined XI. Yeah, sure, it’s usually a Best XI, but in these parts we deal in Worst

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April 15, 2025 County cricket

Are the 2025 County Championship pacemakers going to drop out after a few laps?

2 minute readTwo games in, the first division of the County Championship has taken on a blobby, amorphous shape with three counties on the same number of points at the top. Will any of them still be in the running at the competition’s autumnal climax? We may as well start with the

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April 10, 2025 England

Succession: Who becomes England Test captain when Ben Stokes inevitably suffers his next major injury?

3 minute read“Yes, if it is to be said, so it be, so it is,” as Greg Hirsch would say. Harry Brook has been named England’s T20 and one-day international captain, as we all assumed he would be. So what happens when Ben Stokes gets injured and can’t lead the Test team

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April 9, 2025 County cricket / England

What’s more? Tom Banton ups the volume

5 minute readThere’s a fundamental tension these days between specialising in one particular format and striving to become a more rounded cricketer. It’s pretty much impossible to walk both paths, but right now Tom Banton appears to have put a good few footprints on each. In the parallel worlds of strength and

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April 4, 2025 County cricket

This is the way the county cricket season begins… with yet another structural review

3 minute readWe’re about 10 minutes into the county season as we type this sentence and already they’re talking about changing things next year. This is, paradoxically, one of the things that never changes about county cricket: they will forever be talking about changing it. Yesterday we reposted our 2022 article about

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April 3, 2025 County cricket

Long term rentals: the overseas pros who return to county cricket with interest

3 minute readAll eyes on the Ambassador Cruise Line Ground from tomorrow. Is this funnier or less funny than the previous sponsorship which made it sound like Essex’s nickname was Cloud County? Overseas professionalism is a jaunty, unpredictable thing in the current County Championship era. Remember last year when Surrey went down

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April 1, 2025 England

Charlotte Edwards eyes remaining unconquered worlds, Ben Duckett eyes a duck

2 minute readCharlotte Edwards is England’s all-time leading run-scorer. She played 309 games for the national side, 220 of them as captain. She won five Ashes series and both World Cups. She’s won plenty as a domestic coach as well and at one point they even named a trophy after her. Realistically,

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March 28, 2025 India

Mr Gloverman: is MS Dhoni belatedly legitimising the role of specialist keeper in T20?

4 minute readIf there’s one thing you can count on with IPL tactical trends, it’s that by the time you’ve written about one, it’s gone back the other way. We can’t really remember any particular period when the perceived value of a wicketkeeper largely hinged on his wicketkeeping though, which is where

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March 27, 2025 County cricket

Which County Championship games will title-holders Surrey not bother playing this year?

2 minute readAh, the County Championship, bastion of egalitarian sporting competition, where every county plays every other county home and away… except for four of them. An important thing to look at when previewing the County Championship is which matches won’t actually happen. Ten first division teams, each playing 14 matches –

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March 25, 2025 Australia

Please destroy a few of our Gabba memories along with the ground

2 minute read“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Steve Harmison wanging his first ball straight to Andrew Flintoff at second slip. Rory Burns missing his first ball and getting bowled behind his legs. Nasser Hussain electing to bowl and spending a very long day regretting that decision. A Peter Siddle hat

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March 21, 2025 Pakistan

Hassan Nawaz’s hundred v Shahid Afridi’s first hundred

3 minute readHassan Nawaz hit Pakistan’s fastest T20 ton today – a 44-ball effort against New Zealand. It was only his third international innings, which brings to mind Shahid Afridi’s absolute nonsense of a hundred the very first time he walked out to bat for the national side. But it wasn’t like

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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
  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
  • 14 England things that happened in the summer of 2025 – do they tell us anything?October 13, 2025
  • Cheteshwar Pujara is trying to sidle out on the sly – but we ain’t gonna let him, are we?August 27, 2025
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