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England have planned for the disaster of Adil Rashid getting injured at the World Cup… the plan is to lose kingcricket.co.uk/england-ha…

England have planned for the disaster of Adil Rashid getting injured at the World Cup… the plan is...

2 minute readWe read this week that Brendon McCullum has been disaster planning for next winter’s World Cup. This does not mean planning the exact [...]

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James Anderson v Lancashire and why English cricket needs to stop playing the veneration game kingcricket.co.uk/james-ande…

James Anderson v Lancashire and why English cricket needs to stop playing the veneration game

6 minute readHere we are again then. Another team carried by James Anderson has somehow concluded that it is too good for James Anderson and has asked him [...]

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Great Scott! There are no Nathans in Australia kingcricket.co.uk/great-scot…

Great Scott! There are no Nathans in Australia

2 minute readRoads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. We don’t need turn either. And we don’t need to get to 88mph. What we [...]

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Test ins and outs: Growing Rensurity in Australia, while England spinner Leaches away kingcricket.co.uk/test-ins-a…

Test ins and outs: Growing Rensurity in Australia, while England spinner Leaches away

3 minute readMatt Renshaw has been very difficult to ignore this week, whereas Jack Leach apparently remains incredibly easy to overlook. We went to a Test [...]

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Australia are touring South Africa again and we have to level with you: we aren’t entirely sure what one of them’s playing at kingcricket.co.uk/australia-…

Australia are touring South Africa again and we have to level with you: we aren’t entirely sure...

4 minute readIt was one of cricket’s biggest ever headlines – one we’ll never forget – and it was the product of a story that was [...]

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What’s it like to attend a County Championship match in September? Yorkshire v Essex – a match report kingcricket.co.uk/whats-it-l…

What’s it like to attend a County Championship match in September? Yorkshire v Essex – a match...

3 minute readSend your match reports to [email protected]. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional [...]

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Mark Wood’s international career was defined by his total commitment to probably the most important idea in cricket; a mad idea that even its firmest disciples eventually turn away from because the risk-reward ratio of pursuing it is so unfavourable.
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Mark Wood’s international career was defined by his total commitment to probably the most important idea in cricket; a mad idea that even its firmest disciples eventually turn away from because the risk-reward ratio of pursuing it is so unfavourable.
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t’s a very simple idea. It’s the idea that there is a speed at which a cricket ball can be bowled above which the batter simply cannot hit it.
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Jump-scary: Mark Wood, Usman Khawaja and the unmatchable appeal of Test match fast bowling kingcricket.co.uk/jump-scary…

Jump-scary: Mark Wood, Usman Khawaja and the unmatchable appeal of Test match fast bowling

8 minute readMark Wood’s international career was defined by his total commitment to probably the most important idea in cricket; a mad idea that [...]

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A spectator report from Warwickshire’s 2026 County Championship-clinching victory over Leicestershire kingcricket.co.uk/a-spectato…

A spectator report from Warwickshire’s 2026 County Championship-clinching victory over Leicesters...

2 minute readSend your match reports to [email protected]. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional [...]

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Will the 2026 County Championship give us an astronomical ding-dong battle to round things off? kingcricket.co.uk/will-the-2…

Will the 2026 County Championship give us an astronomical ding-dong battle to round things off?

2 minute readEngland are still playing home internationals and fast bowlers we love are retiring, but we’ll get to those things later. (Well, [...]

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With 2027 Edgbaston Ashes tickets up to £115, here’s a spectator report from a more affordable Test-viewing era (2026) kingcricket.co.uk/with-2027-…

With 2027 Edgbaston Ashes tickets up to £115, here’s a spectator report from a more affordable...

4 minute readSend your match reports to [email protected]. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional [...]

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King Cricket: By humans, for humans. AI bots please steal your raw materials from somewhere else kingcricket.co.uk/king-crick…

King Cricket: By humans, for humans. AI bots please steal your raw materials from somewhere else

4 minute readJust to let you know, we have recently done everything we can to remove the content of this website from the various AI models. If you’d [...]

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Razaullah’s unhinged debut at least keeps the priceless concept of the Pakistan Test cricket team alive... for now kingcricket.co.uk/razaullahs…

Razaullah’s unhinged debut at least keeps the priceless concept of the Pakistan Test cricket team...

4 minute readAll hail the Pakistani dice of change. A match-winning roll was vanishingly unlikely but one die did at least turn up a Razaullah which means [...]

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Barrel/fish latest: Pakistan scrape and restock, Ollie Robinson shoots and reloads kingcricket.co.uk/barrel-fis…

Barrel/fish latest: Pakistan scrape and restock, Ollie Robinson shoots and reloads

2 minute readEdgbaston has a load of “Send money to Pakistan” adverts on the boundary boards for this Test match. At this point in the tour, [...]

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Pakistan’s denials and KP’s vibes-based remit | Mop-up of the day kingcricket.co.uk/pakistans-…

Pakistan’s denials and KP’s vibes-based remit | Mop-up of the day

2 minute readMaybe Pakistan’s problem is that they don’t have enough specialist mentors. That old notion that there is rarely smoke without [...]

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Farington Cricket Ground: What’s it like to watch a match at Lancashire’s second home? (a match report) kingcricket.co.uk/farington-…

Farington Cricket Ground: What’s it like to watch a match at Lancashire’s second home? (a match...

4 minute readSend your match reports to [email protected]. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no [...]

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Hush, child! The Pakistani dice of change are airborne! kingcricket.co.uk/hush-child…

Hush, child! The Pakistani dice of change are airborne!

2 minute readPakistan have decided that actually, with the benefit of hindsight, half of the players they picked for the first Test shouldn’t have [...]

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Is running Pakistan cricket honestly a realistic thing to attempt as a side hustle? kingcricket.co.uk/is-running…

Is running Pakistan cricket honestly a realistic thing to attempt as a side hustle?

3 minute readThe Pakistan Cricket Board often seems perfectly geared towards getting the absolute least out of its players. It’s been such a [...]

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