Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 03/10/2026Spent a while on this one. Doesn't happen with every player. I have no control over it. 142
Reposted by Alex BowdenAlex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026Jump-scary: Mark Wood, Usman Khawaja and the unmatchable appeal of Test match fast bowling www.kingcricket.co.uk/jump-scary-m... 192
Reposted by Alex BowdenDan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 01/10/2026"… the one wicket that had fallen was David Warner to Stuart Broad in the first over, so it wasn't even a real wicket." This is good stuff. (It's also Wood stuff. Good Wood stuff.) 011
Reposted by Alex BowdenAlex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026Mark 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. 293
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026I had a whole load of other things I wanted to talk about in this piece - one of which was the horse - and then I realised I'd sunk about 1,800 words on one delivery, at which point I realised I'd better narrow the scope if I was ever going to finish. 030
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026Jump-scary: Mark Wood, Usman Khawaja and the unmatchable appeal of Test match fast bowling www.kingcricket.co.uk/jump-scary-m... 192
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026It’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. 121
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 30/09/2026Mark 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. 293
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 28/09/2026A spectator report from Warwickshire’s 2026 County Championship-clinching victory over Leicestershire www.kingcricket.co.uk/a-spectator-... 020
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 23/09/2026I guess there aren't many points between them and Notts won last year. One way or another, much less of a big deal for them. 110
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 23/09/2026Will the 2026 County Championship give us an astronomical ding-dong battle to round things off? www.kingcricket.co.uk/will-the-202... 110
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 21/09/2026Well some are more than that. I meant 'up from this year to at least' there really. 110
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 21/09/2026Lord's. I think it might be the same again next year as well at Headingley. That's the only one I've got my name down for. 110
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 21/09/2026With 2027 Edgbaston Ashes tickets up to £115, here’s a spectator report from a more affordable Test-viewing era (2026) www.kingcricket.co.uk/with-2027-ed... 210
Reposted by Alex BowdenDan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 18/09/2026"For fairly obvious reasons, King Cricket can't do anything about the obscene and unjustifiable levels of AI funding we're seeing at the minute." Not with that attitude you won't. Kyle Reese must be rolling in his upcoming cradle. 111
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 19/09/2026Well unfortunately I can't go back in time because I'm a never-nude. 010
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 17/09/2026There seems to be a theme in the comments of this piece; that the site has an inbuilt defence against the machines scouring the web for useful information... 011
Reposted by Alex BowdenAlex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 17/09/2026King Cricket: By humans, for humans. AI bots please steal your raw materials from somewhere else www.kingcricket.co.uk/king-cricket... 273
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 17/09/2026One might argue that's more a case of chronically overthinking things. 100
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 17/09/2026King Cricket: By humans, for humans. AI bots please steal your raw materials from somewhere else www.kingcricket.co.uk/king-cricket... 273
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026I keep imagining I'm Mike Hesson and how the last week or two must feel. 110
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026Is running Pakistan cricket honestly a realistic thing to attempt as a side hustle? www.kingcricket.co.uk/is-running-p... 101
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026At least they're still throwing up these spiky cricketers, even if they're then funnelled into the sandpaper tubes of the system to have all their rarest and most useful attributes sanded off. 100
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026Nothing's improved, really. They've still got a guy running the game (really badly) as his side hustle. But at least there's still *something* there. 100
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026When you've been picking 16-year-olds and burning them out before they're 23, there are no longer younger generations to turn to. And that's where I thought Pakistan had got to. 100
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026The prospect that a player *could* do something indescribable to turn a match around keeps Tests interesting even when it doesn't actually happen. The first and second Test Pakistan teams were the first ones I can remember where it was impossible to even imagine someone doing that. 100
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 15/09/2026I think we all agree that rolling seven dice two-thirds of the way through the series isn't a sustainable way of going about things, but it soothes me that this can still happen. 110
Reposted by Alex BowdenAlex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 14/09/2026Razaullah’s unhinged debut at least keeps the priceless concept of the Pakistan Test cricket team alive... for now www.kingcricket.co.uk/razaullahs-u... 131
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 14/09/2026Razaullah’s unhinged debut at least keeps the priceless concept of the Pakistan Test cricket team alive... for now www.kingcricket.co.uk/razaullahs-u... 131
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 11/09/2026James Anderson has taken 47 wickets at 17.57 this season. George Balderson has taken 52 wickets at 19.51. And Lancashire have won two games out of 12. In Division 2. 452
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 11/09/2026I'm going to explain this in more detail next week. I'm sure the readership is on the edge of its collective seat for that one. 000
Reposted by Alex BowdenAlex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 09/09/2026Barrel/fish latest: Pakistan scrape and restock, Ollie Robinson shoots and reloads www.kingcricket.co.uk/barrel-fish-... 031
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 09/09/2026Barrel/fish latest: Pakistan scrape and restock, Ollie Robinson shoots and reloads www.kingcricket.co.uk/barrel-fish-... 031
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 09/09/2026Those "Send money to Pakistan" adverts on the boundary boards come across like a charity fundraiser by this point in the tour. 071
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 09/09/2026In passing, while making an otherwise serious historical point. Just a wonderful, wonderful broadcaster. 080
Alex Bowden @kingcricket.co.uk · 09/09/2026Mike Atherton just referred to Ian Botham as "Baron Beefcake". 250
