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  • May 20, 2025 King Cricket

    Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing

    6 minute readThose of us chipping away the verdigris have a pretty good idea what an early summer England v Zimbabwe Test

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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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January 12, 2020 England

England are nicking all your best ideas and parroting them back to you

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January 9, 2020 England

Did you see Dom Sibley’s face when Zak Crawley palmed that catch straight up?

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January 7, 2020 England

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley could be one of the all-time great aesthetically displeasing opening partnerships

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January 3, 2020 England

Joe Denly is here to play a whole inconclusive career

2 minute read

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January 3, 2020 England

Yes, football is kind of an arsehole, but we can’t really blame it for injuring our cricketers

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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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  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 20, 2025
  • In praise of the matter-of-fact dynamism of Travis HeadJanuary 30, 2025
  • Mark’s wood: Talking joinery and timber with England’s fastest bowlerJanuary 16, 2025
  • 23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024January 10, 2025
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  1. King Cricket on Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match reportJune 19, 2025

    Ooh, a cliffhanger!

  2. Sam on Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match reportJune 18, 2025

    You will have to wait for my match report to find out.

  3. Ged Ladd on Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match reportJune 18, 2025

    Yes, Sam, but then KC is also still sitting on one or two of mine from previous seasons and at…

  4. Sam on Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match reportJune 18, 2025

    Remarkably prompt publishing.

  5. King Cricket on Where the 2025 World Test Championship was won (and lost) and what’s next for Australia and South AfricaJune 17, 2025

    Sounds like a match from about 2019 going by the playing staff. Always a good sign. Smoothing the transition to…

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