Roads? 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 need is ...

2 minute readEngland 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, ...

Every bowler has their own bowling action, but Dan Lawrence’s is more obviously his own than most. These are the three best moments in it. Not wishing the batter to be under any illusions that he ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Voids get filled. The England Test team therefore has an awful lot of new stuff on the way later this summer – chiefly in these three main areas. If Ben Stokes isn’t England captain then the two most ...

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 ...

Six years ago we handed out a bunch of awards to various county cricket grounds, in recognition of the terrible names they’d been saddled with as a result of sponsorship. Most of these names have ...

Ollie 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 recent quote was about how he hasn’t played for the national ...

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 ...