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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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November 17, 2019 England

What are we calling the post-Strauss era?

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November 13, 2019 England

Chris Woakes has a beard now and that definitely says something although we’re not exactly sure what

4 minute readRemember when Ian Bell grew an almost-beard? That was a statement if ever there was one. Ian Bell’s beard said, “I am grizzled nowadays. I am a veteran. I am a man.” Gingery and flecked with grey, Bell’s was the facial hair of a cowboy who’d been on the trail

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November 8, 2019 England

Even the mere *idea* of playing for Yorkshire seems to have helped Dawid Malan. Somehow

2 minute read

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November 5, 2019 England

Eoin Morgan had never tried coffee until last week. What does that say about him?

4 minute read

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November 1, 2019 County cricket

You can add to the English cricket season but you can never take away

3 minute read

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October 30, 2019 Extras

Are you completely numb to the ridiculousness of cricket terminology?

3 minute readThis piece is not a flimsy excuse to publish footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game. It is a chin-stroking musing on the fundamental meaningless of sporting terminology. The fact that it happens to feature footage of ‘the ram’ from the Eton Field Game is just a bonus.

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October 29, 2019 Associates

Papua New Guinea have qualified for the World T20. Without looking stuff up, let’s all share everything we know about Papua New Guinea

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October 26, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

The Cricket 19 videogame probably isn’t going to make David Willey feel any better

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October 24, 2019 India

India ‘move on’ from MS Dhoni and instead pick some random Dube

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October 22, 2019 County cricket

Don’t know what to think about The Hundred? Why not take your lead from Steve Smith’s awkward polite smile?

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  1. King Cricket on Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 23, 2025

    Absolutely! https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/raise-your-glasses-jack-leachs-three-silliest-innings/2024/04/29/

  2. Tim on Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 23, 2025

    Thanks for that. I think Zim have played some 4 day tests too, but again they didn't in practice last…

  3. cjw714 on See, told you Zak Crawley was the very best batter in the whole wide worldMay 23, 2025

    Glad to see someone mention the unmentionable. Ben Stokes dropping himself for Bethell would be no weirder than at least…

  4. A P Webster on Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 22, 2025

    *in 3 days The 2019 one is famous for Jack Leach making 92 as an opener but also a nightwatchman…

  5. A P Webster on Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 22, 2025

    England have played a 4-day Test before (at least two) against Ireland in 2019 and again 2023, but no-one noticed…

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