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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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November 1, 2018 County cricket

ECB expands County Championship comfort zone

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October 31, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Which England player should carry the drinks in Sri Lanka?

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October 29, 2018 Australia

The Disapprover: the new superhero of Australian cricket

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October 25, 2018 Extras

The good and bad points of the official song for the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20

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October 24, 2018 India / West Indies

Shimron Hetmyer just narrowly missed out on making back-to-back hundreds against India

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October 24, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Rating the England burger after a wet one-day series in Sri Lanka

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October 23, 2018 Australia / England / India

Watch the second Al Jazeera match fixing documentary in which (nameless) England cricketers are accused

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October 18, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

The two very obvious highlights from Pakistan v Australia in Abu Dhabi

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October 17, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

Mohammad Abbas could get hold of your phone number (and so could Naseem Shah)

2 minute readFootage emerged this week of a player who could only ever have been from Pakistan. Supposedly 15 years old – but actually 17 – Naseem Shah took 6-59 in his second first-class match via a heady masala of hooping away-swingers, yorkers and helmet-rattlers. Meanwhile, in Abu Dhabi, Shah’s countryman Mohammad

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October 16, 2018 Sri Lanka

Why don’t we just pretend that Sanath Jayasuriya the cricketer was a completely different human being?

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  • 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
  • Lord Megachief of Gold 2024January 8, 2025
  • Are we already watching peak Harry Brook?December 6, 2024

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  1. Tim on Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match reportMarch 13, 2025

    Most people who claim to have been "cancelled" enjoy high public profiles and plenty of mentions, so I'd say this…

  2. Ged on Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match reportMarch 12, 2025

    Hmm, postponed perhaps, rather than cancelled. I’ve resorted to self-publishing some of my sporting derring-do from 50 years ago now:…

  3. King Cricket on Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match reportMarch 12, 2025

    Is this your idea of a cancellation? Merely featuring prominently in a report and then commenting underneath it?

  4. Ged on Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match reportMarch 12, 2025

    A little depressing for me too, Chuck. It seems to me that people in my orbit are getting their match…

  5. Chuck on Daylight Larssony at The Hundred Final – a match reportMarch 12, 2025

    This is incredibly depressing, in the sense that it sets a ridiculously high bar in KC cricket match reporting standards,…

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