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APRIL 03, 2011

Dasher Dhoni's masterpiece delivers victory pizza

Andy Zaltzman: Yesterday night was a bad time to go far a quiet seaside stroll along Marine Drive, Mumbai

APRIL 02, 2011

A World Cup final exam

Andy Zaltzman: Final Day

MARCH 31, 2011

Bad Pakistan triumph over Good Pakistan

Andy Zaltzman: The most-watched cricket match in the history of the known universe prompted probably the biggest single celebration of a victory in terms of the total number of people shouting “yippee” (or variants thereof) that sport has ever generated.

MARCH 30, 2011

The most important event in the history of the planet?

Andy Zaltzman: Well, this is all very exciting

MARCH 29, 2011

Is there a game in Mohali on Wednesday?

Andy Zaltzman: I’m in town for a couple of days and fancy a game

MARCH 28, 2011

The mother-in-law of all spankings

Andy Zaltzman: Thirty-six hours have passed since England were unceremoniously plonked in a box, wrapped in a ribbon and posted back home, first-class

MARCH 26, 2011

A fast-acting, unHeimlichManoeuvrable choke

Andy Zaltzman: At the end of another tumultuous quarter-final in Dhaka, the floodlights went out and fireworks blasted themselves across the Mirpur skies

MARCH 25, 2011

Why Kohli did not play a stupid shot

Andy Zaltzman: The first real quarter-final was a fantastic match, taut, poundingly tense and closely fought throughout, played with an enchanting cocktail of high-level skill and intermittent outbursts of cricketing crackpottery, and ultimately won by some

MARCH 24, 2011

A Ming vase in a tumble-dryer down a bobsled run

Andy Zaltzman: Or what West Indies resembled when they stormed the World Cup Roll Call of Rubbish in Mirpur

MARCH 22, 2011

Being there for Rampaul's 52nd

Andy Zaltzman: Wandering through the streets of Mirpur on the way to the Shere Bangla, it was impossible not to sense that there was not quite as much excitement in the air as there might have been

MARCH 21, 2011

Chawla to dress in dog costume

Andy Zaltzman: Our reporter reports on a clever new strategy pioneered by India

MARCH 20, 2011

Cricket, history and Sachin Tendulkar

Andy Zaltzman: For those of you unable to stream or download the audio of the World Cup Cricket podcast, below is a transcript of the scripted parts of the show

MARCH 18, 2011

Capitalism and John Logie Baird nearly cost England

Andy Zaltzman: England’s heroic efforts to reignite the 50-over game continued with another fluctuating, stomach-rumbling, rocket-propelled donkey ride of a match, replete with all the over-the-top melodrama and emotional mood swings of a teenage disco.

MARCH 17, 2011

Ball-dunking and grudge-dredging

Andy Zaltzman: Andy Zaltzman lies about the World Cup

MARCH 15, 2011

Unexpected and instant fame for the number 29

Andy Zaltzman: This increasingly compelling World Cup has continued to prove far more exciting than anyone could reasonably expect of a tournament that, by this time next week, will almost certainly have sent eight of the world’s top nine ranked teams into the

MARCH 12, 2011