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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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  • December 6, 2024 King Cricket

    Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?

    6 minute readBrooks aren’t ordinarily associated with peaks – they tend to run beneath them – but Harry Brook might already be

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June 11, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

City Cricket Battles HTML5 game

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June 8, 2019 Bangladesh / England

Was Jason Roy’s the greatest World Cup hundred celebration?

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England

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June 7, 2019 South Africa

You can’t blame AB de Villiers for his breath-takingly egocentric last minute bid to play in the World Cup – he’s just continuing to explore what’s possible in cricket

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June 6, 2019 Australia / West Indies

Are the West Indies going to try and bounce the shit out of you? Wonder no more. Just consult this handy guide

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 10, Australia v West Indies

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June 6, 2019 Bangladesh / New Zealand

No-one knows where Ross Taylor is supposed to sit

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 9, Bangladesh v New Zealand

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June 5, 2019 Afghanistan / Sri Lanka

Let’s look at the four phases of the greatest moment of this World Cup so far and work out who had the biggest role in it

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 7, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

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June 4, 2019 England / Pakistan

Joe Root: the most boring one-day batsman in the world

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 6, England v Pakistan

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June 4, 2019 Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan: the best cricketer in the world

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 5, Bangladesh v South Africa

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June 1, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia

Steve Smith: the most despicable cricketer in the entire world

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May 31, 2019 Pakistan / West Indies

You might want to think about bowling short at Pakistan

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    ‘Surrey had been unofficially proclaimed "Champion County" by sections of the press.’ Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,…

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