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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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  • August 5, 2025 King Cricket

    From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test series

    7 minute readNo other sport does all-the-fun-of-the-fair climaxes like cricket. In large part that’s due to the complexity of the game and

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January 28, 2020 England

The Jos Buttler formula and the Ben Stokes toolkit – how ‘trust your defence’ and ‘play your natural game’ aren’t competing philosophies

5 minute readJos Buttler is a Test batsman who talks as if he needs to approach his innings in a certain way. Maybe taking a philosophy into the middle is counterproductive. What’s your natural game? Our natural game is a lot of tea, coffee and reading, a small amount of writing, maybe

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January 26, 2020 England

You probably want to talk about Mark Wood or something

2 minute read

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January 22, 2020 England

Joe Denly could become England’s Baron of Balls

2 minute read

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January 16, 2020 England / South Africa

Mark Wood is playing The Entertain Yourselves Test

2 minute read

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January 12, 2020 England

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

2 minute read

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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

3 minute read

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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

2 minute read

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January 2, 2020 England

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

2 minute read

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  • 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
  • A 21st Century Worst XI for an Ashes Down UnderAugust 21, 2025
  • From Chris ‘Napoleon’ Woakes to unbreakable Mohammed Siraj: 9 moments of pure cricket madness from the final day of a blinding and brutal Test seriesAugust 5, 2025

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  1. Ged Ladd on A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)November 18, 2025

    Oh. So the book juxtaposed with Flossie The Flamingo, Alf The Elf & Typhoon Tyson's tome wasn't ridiculous enough for…

  2. A P Webster on A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)November 18, 2025

    I can report that whilst I haven't come across the book in the wild in Northern England yet, I did…

  3. Ged Ladd on Jasprit Bumrah v four spinners, Bangladesh v Ireland, papal seal, Ashes filtration | Mop-up of the dayNovember 17, 2025

    Yeh, me too, Tim. Obvs.

  4. Tim on Jasprit Bumrah v four spinners, Bangladesh v Ireland, papal seal, Ashes filtration | Mop-up of the dayNovember 17, 2025

    Do what I do and use an actual photo of yourself (obvs from a few years ago when I had…

  5. Buttface on Jasprit Bumrah v four spinners, Bangladesh v Ireland, papal seal, Ashes filtration | Mop-up of the dayNovember 16, 2025

    Damnit. I'm back to the weird toilet seat thingy again.

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