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Alex from King Cricket@TheKingsTweets
30 Oct 2014
Surely one of the all-time great cricket banners.
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Retiring because he stayed up past his bedtime would be a silly but appropriate end to Ben Stokes’ England career kingcricket.co.uk/retiring-b…

Retiring because he stayed up past his bedtime would be a silly but appropriate end to Ben Stokes’...

2 minute readOve the last 24 hours, we’ve been steering our exasperation towards amusement through the simple tactic of mentally rewriting all [...]

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What is the most staggering aspect of Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson’s involvement in a nightclub “incident”? kingcricket.co.uk/what-is-th…

What is the most staggering aspect of Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson’s involvement in a nightclub...

3 minute readHistory has changed. If you google “Ben Stokes nightclub incident,” you now see an entirely different Ben Stokes nightclub [...]

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The fact that having very much set the ball rolling on the recent trend for misjudged night-time activity, Test vice captain Harry Brook is now poised for a promotion thanks to the moral backdrop that he himself helped helped bring about?
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So how tall does Shoaib Bashir feel right now? (Presumably not 10 feet tall) kingcricket.co.uk/so-how-tal…

So how tall does Shoaib Bashir feel right now? (Presumably not 10 feet tall)

4 minute readIt’s become one of the great, weird, modern cricket clichés that Brendon McCullum has the ability to make players feel they are an [...]

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If Brendon McCullum does get England to play ‘smart cricket’ what does that mean for Harry Brook whose superpower is very much ‘daft cricket’? kingcricket.co.uk/if-brendon…

If Brendon McCullum does get England to play ‘smart cricket’ what does that mean for Harry Brook...

3 minute readIn the wake of England’s most successful Ashes tour for 15 years, it was widely agreed that some England players needed to play smarter [...]

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Everyone's laying into the laughable AI of this video, but I'm more impressed with the chutzpah of claiming Blues and Reds are somehow united in their love for a team that's literally never played a single fucking game.
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The classic T20 scenario where a wicketkeeper, wearing batting pads and batting gloves, plus a helmet, takes a diving catch parallel to the square leg umpire, who is next to TWO square leg fielders, both wearing whites, with floodlights on under midday blue skies. AI sucks.
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A cricket book at a castle kingcricket.co.uk/a-cricket-…

A cricket book at a castle

< 1 minute readSend your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff in unusual places to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Please consider putting [...]

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Chapeau, New Zealand – not many teams come to Ireland and win a Test match kingcricket.co.uk/chapeau-ne…

Chapeau, New Zealand – not many teams come to Ireland and win a Test match

< 1 minute readAn historic day. Not many teams get the better of Ireland in Test cricket. New Zealand today inflicted only their second ever defeat in [...]

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Can the 1980s tell us anything about the first Test match of summer? (Don't call it a preview) kingcricket.co.uk/can-the-19…

Can the 1980s tell us anything about the first Test match of summer?

2 minute readNeither Ireland nor New Zealand play too many Test matches and the Irish players don’t even have a domestic red ball structure to fall [...]

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Can anyone get a grip on the attenuating unpredictability of the Pakistan Test team? kingcricket.co.uk/can-anyone…

Can anyone get a grip on the attenuating unpredictability of the Pakistan Test team?

3 minute readPakistan play three Tests in England later this summer. You can never be entirely sure what you’re going to get from Pakistan, but it [...]

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Is Ollie Pope still in the same galaxy as the England Test team? kingcricket.co.uk/is-ollie-p…

Is Ollie Pope still in the same galaxy as the England Test team?

4 minute readThere are winners and losers with every England Test squad announcement, but the first one after an Ashes tour tends to feature bigger, [...]

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Ben Duckett chose… wisely A modern international cricketer like Ben Duckett has a lot of tricky career decisions to make. Sometimes you don’t know whether you’ve made the right choice until you have or haven’t aged into dust. kingcricket.co.uk/ben-ducket…

Ben Duckett chose… wisely

3 minute readA modern international cricketer like Ben Duckett has a lot of tricky career decisions to make. Sometimes you don’t know whether [...]

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James will Rew the latest instalment of England’s weird, implicit, episodic Test squad announcement kingcricket.co.uk/james-will…

James will Rew the latest instalment of England’s weird, implicit, episodic Test squad announcement

3 minute readEngland confirmed the dropping of Kent’s Zak Crawley today when James Rew walked out to open the batting for Somerset. There are [...]

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Stone rises as Nottinghamshire lead a more familiar looking County Championship kingcricket.co.uk/stone-rise…

Stone rises as Nottinghamshire lead a more familiar looking County Championship

3 minute readNow that everyone’s played four matches, the 2026 County Championship is starting to take shape. The shape it is taking is that of the [...]

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Has Ollie Robinson uncovered a back way into the England Test team? kingcricket.co.uk/has-ollie-…

Has Ollie Robinson uncovered a back way into the England Test team?

2 minute readOllie Robinson hasn’t always seemed fully aware of what he needs to do (or not do) if he wants to play for England again. Our favourite [...]

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Ralphies, Surrey spin and why winning a game is either the best or worst thing you can do in the County Championship kingcricket.co.uk/ralphies-s…

Ralphies, Surrey spin and why winning a game is either the best or worst thing you can do in the...

2 minute readFour weeks into the County Championship and most teams have only played three times. It’s therefore no surprise that four-match [...]

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Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit? kingcricket.co.uk/clamour-mo…

Clamour model: Can’t James Rew just carry on breathing down people’s necks for a bit?

2 minute readEngland always say they want competition for places, but whenever they actually have it, everyone gets all impatient and demands that they [...]

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If you want to bat for England, bat for Surrey. If you want to bowl for England, bowl for Sussex. And if you want to open for England… kingcricket.co.uk/if-you-wan…

If you want to bat for England, bat for Surrey. If you want to bowl for England, bowl for Sussex....

3 minute readA fortnight into the County Championship and it’s hard to weigh the performances of several England Test hopefuls. In many cases who [...]

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A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should definitely buy kingcricket.co.uk/a-black-st…

A black standard poodle being conspicuously indifferent to a very good cricket book that you should...

< 1 minute readIf you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, please send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk. Chess [...]

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Skullwatch: Jamie Smith looks safe then kingcricket.co.uk/skullwatch…

Skullwatch: Jamie Smith looks safe then

3 minute readJamie Smith earned himself a mention in our previous article about which England Test players might get the boot for the next Test. We had him [...]

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