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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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November 21, 2019 England / New Zealand

Mount Maunganui is the home of the Nan Chair

2 minute read

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November 20, 2019 England / New Zealand

Four opinions to form about this England team during the first Test against New Zealand

3 minute read

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November 20, 2019 Extras

Plumb! – a themed digital comedy cricket magazine

2 minute read

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November 19, 2019 England / New Zealand

You can get live TV coverage of both New Zealand v England Tests for £20

2 minute read

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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

2 minute readA brief history of what’s been wrong with the County Championship in the fairly recent past, the present, and in a couple of years’ time… The last of those seems to be on the cards going by an interview with Ashley Giles in the latest issue of The Cricketer. Giles

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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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  • 51. Michael Vaughan Declines A CrushingOctober 29, 2025
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  • 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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