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MAY 10, 2013
The no-honours XI
: Players who received plenty of applause but probably no standing ovations
Brian Close: fended off milestones like he did bouncers © PA Photos
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NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The novelists who ate bowlers
: Or how Robert Ludlum and John Updike turned promising ODI superstars into long-format wrecks
NOVEMBER 07, 2012
Saleem Elahi and the rich man's Saleem Elahi
: Star in the ODI Legends but Test Muppets XI
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The Don Bradman of bowling unpenetratively in ODIs
: And the five of his cohorts who complete our XI who were good in Tests but rubbish in ODIs
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Good in Tests, rubbish in ODIs XI - part one
: Five batsmen who made you raise your eyebrows in one format and face-palm yourself in another
MARCH 13, 2012
The Blaze of Glory XI - part two
: 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,
MARCH 06, 2012
The Blaze of Glory XI
: Part one of the Official Confectionery Stall team who exited to applause
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Players with pairs lasting two or three balls XI
: Ashwin's hundred reminded Andy Zaltzman of Agarkar's, which in turn reminded him of things that go quack-quack
OCTOBER 09, 2011
The Losers XI Part 2
: A bowling attack that could be cast in a Greek tragedy, a Korean action thriller and a Bollywood masala, all at once
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
An XI of total losers
: Revealed: the shockingly Tendulkar-free top six in the canonical Confectionery Stall Great Series Performances in Defeated Teams XI
OCTOBER 28, 2010
The elegant and the ineffective
: It’s all very well picking a world-beating team of players who are attractive to watch, but what about the attractive but useless ones, eh?
MARCH 27, 2009
The Unpredictable XI - part 1
: Having promised the World Unpredictable XI a couple of blogs ago (the ‘blog’ now being the only unit of time I officially recognise), I have since found myself in prolonged and agonising internal selectorial discussions
JANUARY 29, 2009
World's Dullest XI, part 2 - Deities of Dull
: Confectionery Stallers, the waiting is at an end
JANUARY 28, 2009
World’s Dullest XI, part 1 (Appendix)
: Tomorrow will bring the long-awaited announcement of numbers 7 to 11 in the Confectionery Stall Post-1981 All-Time Dullest World XI, putting tedious cricketers and lovers of tedious cricket out of their misery at last
JANUARY 22, 2009
World’s Dullest XI, part 1 - Titans of Tedium
: The ICC’s much-maligned Best-Ever Test Match ratings, which have provoked typhoons of outrage and howls of misunderstanding across the cricketing universe, have fired the millennia-old debate about how best to assess a cricketer’s quality
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