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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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September 11, 2019 Regulars

The impact of Headingley 2019 | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It

2 minute readI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It is a semi-regular feature where we ask a fella called Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not.

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September 10, 2019 Match report

A match report from a man who claims to have “won the Ashes single-handedly”… in Galle

3 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. If it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. If it’s an amateur match, feel free to go into excruciating detail.

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September 9, 2019 Australia / England

The fourth Test was ridiculous. But exactly how ridiculous?

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September 7, 2019 Australia / England

Stuart Broad is a shenanigan superhero

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September 6, 2019 Australia / England

Ben Stokes’ almighty celebration of absolutely nothing at all

2 minute readEngland v Australia, fourth Test, day two

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September 5, 2019 Australia / England

It was windy at Old Trafford. Here are the wind’s three finest cameos from day one of the fourth Ashes Test

3 minute readEngland v Australia, fourth Test, day one

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September 3, 2019 Australia / England

Joe Root Burnout Watch – part four

< 1 minute readHow burnt-out is Joe Root right now?

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September 2, 2019 Extras

Cricket Badger’s back

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August 31, 2019 Extras

An update on the King Cricket Patreon campaign

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August 30, 2019 Australia / England

In praise of Jack Leach, England’s finest number 11 batsman

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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 Chris Woakes shouldered his workload better than he shouldered the soggy Oval turfAugust 2, 2025

    Well this is it, isn't it? He obviously won't have wanted to offer them that. It's been reported that they…

  2. Micko on Chris Woakes shouldered his workload better than he shouldered the soggy Oval turfAugust 2, 2025

    I mean, do they really want Woakes in Australia? 16 wickets in 7 matches at 52 in his previous tours.…

  3. Sam on Chris Woakes shouldered his workload better than he shouldered the soggy Oval turfAugust 1, 2025

    No idea where England’s bowling goes from here. Atkinson looks decent. The rest look either toothless, knackered or injured. Feels…

  4. Fred Grace on Chris Woakes shouldered his workload better than he shouldered the soggy Oval turfAugust 1, 2025

    Diving to try to save boundaries is so stupid, usually fails, at best saves 1 or 2 runs, high risk…

  5. Fred Grace on Ben Stokes and Jasprit Bumrah lead two strong bowling attacks sitting out the fifth TestAugust 1, 2025

    Diving to try to save boundaries is so stupid, usually fails, at best saves 1 or 2 runs, high risk…

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