Hurry up, please, it's time

Aug 6, 2013: Why has cricket got so snail-pleasingly slow in recent years?

Australia in danger of breaking their 1979 record

Aug 1, 2013: How many more players will they use in sinking to an all-new low in 2013?

Seven straws for Australia to clutch at

Jul 29, 2013: They go to Old Trafford down two Tests, but not everything is gloomy. Like, how their heads aren't messed up by that sexy siren called Success

Should have been Bell, not Root

Jul 23, 2013: A case for a different Man of the Match for the Lord's Test, and musings on whether Australia are the new West Indies

A Test that enveloped the soul

Jul 16, 2013: With sinuous curves and shuddering jolts, no less. And lest we forget: all hail Ashton Agar

England to win (unless Australia do)

Jul 10, 2013: The official, unequivocal Confectionery Stall Ashes prediction looks at ten key factors in the series

India a force in cricket (and facial hair)

Jun 25, 2013: An authoritative run-down of the Champions Trophy final

It will be an India-South Africa final

Jun 19, 2013: If you had a magical spinning bottle, you wouldn't question this prediction

In praise of Statsguru

Jun 19, 2013: Could the world live without ESPNcricinfo's stats-spewing thingummybob? Certainly, but it would be a poorer place without it

The magic Champions Trophy coin, and a defence for Ramdin

Jun 12, 2013: And more information on earthworms than you could ever find useful

Everyone's a winner

Jun 7, 2013: But no one will win. Probably. Of course, someone has to, in the end. Anyway: the official Confectionery Stall preview

The stats Everest Joe Root is set to conquer

Jun 4, 2013: The company he keeps on a list of England centurions under the age of 23 points to a dazzling future as a climber of milestones

Cat-skinning, and a drunken donkey's driving test

May 29, 2013: England beat New Zealand comprehensively, but that doesn't mean we can't quibble about some of their tactics, which brought domesticated animals to mind

From suspended animation to slapstick frenzy

May 21, 2013: Aka the first Test of the English summer. Get your stats here. Line up, line up

Bring on the cricket megabinge

May 15, 2013: Seven Tests, 31 ODIs, six T20Is in 124 days. Let us lick our lips for what we are about to receive

XIs

The no-honours XI

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

The irony of being dismissed in the 90s in the '90s

Apr 30, 2013: And Clem Hill's pioneering work in the field of narrowly avoiding personal milestones

Peter Fulton's marvellous metamorphosis

Apr 8, 2013: From knocking about with the numerical nobodies, he is now mingling with the mathematical megaliths

England: wonderful, horrid England

Apr 2, 2013: In which the teams' season report cards are ruthlessly reviewed, one in more detail than the others

Matt Prior and the tantric massage of luck

Mar 27, 2013: All hail England's fortunate MVP