Skip to content
King Cricket

King Cricket

Independent and irreverent cricket writing

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Extras
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Buy our book!

Tag: 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

November 6, 2025 Australia / England / Features

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

2 minute readOur book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, has now been officially released. You can (and should) buy it – it’s very funny. We can say that without being immodest because for all you know we might be solely referring to the bits co-author Dan Liebke wrote. (We’re not. Our

Continue reading
October 29, 2025 Australia / England / Features

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: The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments. In it, we count down exactly what that title promises. But of course there have been far more than 50 ridiculous moments in the

Continue reading
October 22, 2025 Australia / Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / England

Cummins, coffee, Christmas? Broad, beer, bog? Some FAQs about The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments

4 minute readWe’ve been asked a lot of questions about our book The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments. We’ve also made up a few. If you’ve any further questions, ask away in the comments section and maybe we’ll tackle them in a follow-up. 1. What’s it about? Come on, that’s not a

Continue reading

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Buy our book

Search King Cricket

Latest features

  • Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 18, 2025
  • The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)December 10, 2025
  • The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)November 6, 2025
  • 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

Read one of these next…

  • How Adam Zampa and Marcus Stoinis are pissing away the great legacy of David Boon

    How Adam Zampa and Marcus Stoinis are pissing away the great legacy of David Boon

  • Please tell us the secret of managing the very difficult emotions that arise when watching the Pakistan bowling attack against England

    Please tell us the secret of managing the very difficult emotions that arise when watching the Pakistan bowling attack against England

  • Goldenarms: The best part-time bowlers in the history of Test cricket

    Goldenarms: The best part-time bowlers in the history of Test cricket

  • Ten important questions after watching the trailer for that new England documentary ‘The Edge’

    Ten important questions after watching the trailer for that new England documentary ‘The Edge’

  • Why ‘overnight’ is such an important part of a five-day Test match

    Why ‘overnight’ is such an important part of a five-day Test match

Archives

Cricket history

  • Ancient history

King Cricket T-shirts

t_shirt_ad.jpg

What we mostly seem to write about

  • England
  • Australia
  • India
  • Other nations
  • County cricket
  • IPL

Latest comments

  1. cjw714 on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    He's an athlete so he's paid a very decent sum of money to keep himself fit enough to play sport…

  2. King Cricket on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    With our usual disregard for the calendar, we're simply a bit late.

  3. Ged Ladd on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    Festivus came and went without, unusually, so much as a single mention on this website. Plenty of grievances-airing in the…

  4. Rhys Muir on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 24, 2025

    Lots of comments along the lines of 'hes an athlete.' Yes, so, literally one of the least important jobs with…

  5. King Cricket on The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning pageDecember 23, 2025

    Well certainly can't argue they're doing a good job of developing spinners, despite all the Lions tours and spin camps.…

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat finally being won over to cricket by the sheer ridiculousness of the Ashes
  • A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket
  • Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being

RSS Match reports

  • Match Report: Ireland vs England, 2nd T20, Malahide
  • Keep your enemies closer | a 2019 Edgbaston Ashes Test match report
  • Match report: Sixes, Fulham

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

  • A cricket book alongside Australia’s most ridiculous Ashes captain (statue)
  • DEVICE NEWS! (A match report being conspicuously indifferent to cricket in an unusual place)
  • A cricket bat in a Pigbag video

About King Cricket

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Get our articles by email
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Support King Cricket

  • Our Patreon crowdfunder

Recent Posts

  • The 2025 Festivus holding page: The Boxing Day Test
  • The Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Ashes – the Choose Your Own Adventure book with no winning page
  • Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong
  • Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?
  • Can England defy the irresistible gravity of right-arm fast-medium in Adelaide? An Ashes third Test preview

Tags

Adil Rashid Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Andrew Strauss Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket Ashes Ben Stokes Brendon McCullum Chris Gayle Chris Woakes Cricket bats in unusual places Cricket media David Warner Did you see Eoin Morgan Ian Bell IPL James Anderson Joe Root Jonathan Trott Jonny Bairstow Jos Buttler Kevin Pietersen King Cricket Laurence Elderbrook Lies about pictures Matthew Hayden Michael Clarke Mitchell Johnson Moeen Ali Monty Panesar Mop-up of the day MS Dhoni Ones to watch Paul Collingwood Photos Retirement Ricky Ponting Rob Key Sachin Tendulkar Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sim Series Steve Smith Stuart Broad Virat Kohli
WordPress Theme: Maxwell by ThemeZee.
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Cookies may be used for personalisation of ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}