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 ...

England are still playing home internationals and fast bowlers we love are retiring, but we’ll get to those things later. (Well, we’ll get to the second one.) For this week at least, let’s cast our ...

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 ...

All 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 the basic concept of the Pakistan Test team can just about ...

Edgbaston has a load of “Send money to Pakistan” adverts on the boundary boards for this Test match. At this point in the tour, it’s easy to read that as some kind of charity fundraiser. Why would ...

Maybe Pakistan’s problem is that they don’t have enough specialist mentors. That old notion that there is rarely smoke without fire is frequently exploited in politics. In many campaigns, the job’s ...

Pakistan have decided that actually, with the benefit of hindsight, half of the players they picked for the first Test shouldn’t have even been in the squad. The apparently wrong calls for that match ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board often seems perfectly geared towards getting the absolute least out of its players. It’s been such a colossally effective talent erosion machine in recent years, you wonder ...

Will Ollie Robinson actually manage to play two Tests in a row? The England Test team has been a swirling maelstrom of madness all summer long – maybe that will be the next improbable development. As ...

So Joe Root’s England Test captain again. That, perhaps, is a topic for next week. More immediately, we’ve been given a sighter as to what this next Joe Root England team might look like and the first ...

If we were going to sack an England Test coach, we wouldn’t announce it in the middle of an England Test match. Sorry, let us rephrase that. If we were going to ...

King Cricket commissioned me to analyse the crowd at the recent women’s Test match at Lord’s. The null hypothesis: that the proportion of the crowd who are knobheads is the same at women’s Test ...