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 ...

2 minute readSend your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if ...

Send your match reports to king@kingcricket.co.uk. We’re only really interested in your own experience, so if it’s a professional match, on no account mention the cricket itself. (But if it’s an ...

Pakistan play three Tests in England later this summer. You can never be entirely sure what you’re going to get from Pakistan, but it does feel like the range of unpredictability has been narrowing ...

Remember when Joe Root was England’s permanent Test captain? Remember Joe Root Burnout Watch? He did another three years after that and things got worse. That kind of experience will scar a man. Way ...

Top level cricketers really care about what they do. Caring is the basic fuel for their careers. But whether it’s an Iranian gasfield, a Tesla Cybertruck battery or merely the giving of shits, ...

In April 2024, Rob Key, Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum told James Anderson they were looking to regenerate the England Test bowling attack ahead of the next Ashes and could he maybe provide them with ...

England always say they want competition for places, but whenever they actually have it, everyone gets all impatient and demands that they hurry up and make the change right now. Somerset’s James Rew ...

Jacob Bethell finally scored his first professional hundred and did so in fine style. He’s still not doing his job in England’s one-day team though, because he’s being picked as half an all-rounder.

Four weeks into the County Championship and most teams have only played three times. It’s therefore no surprise that four-match Warwickshire find themselves top of the table. They have achieved this ...

This website was born in the drab age of “chief executives’ pitches” where runs were plentiful and the game inched along like a tardy slug. We hated it – but fortunately the world moves on. We now ...

Cricket’s a broad, sprawling sport, open to anyone who can lay their hands on a bat and ball. It has no home. If it did have a home (which it doesn’t) and that home was in England (which it isn’t) ...