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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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October 3, 2019 India / South Africa

Sorry, but the ‘lost ball’ was a bigger highlight than Mayank Agarwal and Rohit Sharma and all the other stuff

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October 2, 2019 County cricket

Please will you explain why you feel such pure visceral hatred for The Hundred

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October 1, 2019 County cricket / Pakistan

Shahid Afridi is going to play The Hundred and in a way it is the greatest endurance feat of all time

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September 28, 2019 Australia / England / India

13 things that happened this summer that sort of sum things up but mostly don’t

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September 27, 2019 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

An Instant Cricket Library in a cactus

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk

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September 25, 2019 County cricket

Will Lanky the Giraffe ever win the T20 Finals Day Mascot Race?

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September 24, 2019 County cricket

Essex, Somerset, 27 Dresses and “Pou-Pou”

2 minute readThis article is pinned to the top of the page. New articles will appear directly beneath it.

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September 20, 2019 Australia / England

Video: A new angle on a perfectly normal Steve Smith defensive stroke

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September 19, 2019 Australia / England

Stuart Broad v David Warner

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September 18, 2019 Australia / England / Features

2019 Ashes Worst XI – who gets into our composite team?

4 minute readNever mind all those Ashes Best XIs. Who would get into the far more hotly-contested 2019 Ashes Worst XI? 1. David Warner – 95 runs at 9.50 First name on our team sheet even if we weren’t starting at the top and working our way down. If Josh Hazlewood had

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  • Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thingMay 20, 2025
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  • 23 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2024January 10, 2025
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  1. King Cricket on Why is the Lord’s pitch so woefully inconsistent?July 14, 2025

    You are well aware, Sam Blackledge. Well aware.

  2. sam on Why is the Lord’s pitch so woefully inconsistent?July 14, 2025

    You could do a 'cartwheeling stumps' round-up of this Test. Do you take requests?

  3. King Cricket on Why is the Lord’s pitch so woefully inconsistent?July 14, 2025

    Actually we were complaining that it was too slippy before. Seems solid enough today for the off stump to perform…

  4. Ged Ladd on Why is the Lord’s pitch so woefully inconsistent?July 14, 2025

    I told Daisy last night that people would switch from complaining that the pitch is too benign to complaining that…

  5. PaulFrame85 on Why is the Lord’s pitch so woefully inconsistent?July 14, 2025

    At least the pitch isn't killing people, like it used to: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/not-out-dead-135627

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