The Confectionery Stall

One-off saucepan sizzlers

Oct 7, 2013 Part two of the flash-in-the-pan XI features bowlers who rattled the opposition once and then went off to lead a peaceful, non-violent existence

The All-time Flash-in-the-Pan XI

Oct 1, 2013 Players who burned bright briefly? Here you go

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The no-honours XI

May 10, 2013 Players who received plenty of applause but probably no standing ovations

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The novelists who ate bowlers

Feb 25, 2013 Or how Robert Ludlum and John Updike turned promising ODI superstars into long-format wrecks

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Saleem Elahi and the rich man's Saleem Elahi

Feb 25, 2013 Star in the ODI Legends but Test Muppets XI

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The Don Bradman of bowling unpenetratively in ODIs

Feb 25, 2013 And the five of his cohorts who complete our XI who were good in Tests but rubbish in ODIs

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Good in Tests, rubbish in ODIs XI - part one

Feb 25, 2013 Five batsmen who made you raise your eyebrows in one format and face-palm yourself in another

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The blog you've all been waiting for

Feb 25, 2013 In other words, the Blaze of Glory - Part 3

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The Blaze of Glory XI - part two

Feb 25, 2013 Greetings from New York City, where non-cricketous work has taken me temporarily to the place where Donald Bradman met Babe Ruth , and, one hopes, tried to convince the legendary Yankees slugger that if he did not hit the ball in the air so often,

The Blaze of Glory XI

Feb 25, 2013 Part one of the Official Confectionery Stall team who exited to applause