The Official Confectionery Stall Ashes Preview

Nov 20, 2013: Andy Zaltzman provides the almost-definite preview of the Ashes series and why England should, could, or might not retain the urn

The year 1AT begins

Nov 19, 2013: The one-man encyclopaedia of stats is gone, but his numbers are now footnotes in history along with West Indies' awful ones from this series

What if Sachin pulls a hamstring in Kolkata?

Nov 5, 2013: The Confectionery Stall's advanced-level cricket examination goes boldly where no cricket quiz has done

The Ajit Agarkar factor

Oct 30, 2013: Jokes about the great Mumbaikar always go down well, as do digs at the BCCI

Time for a declaration treaty (and, no, I wasn't asleep on TV)

Oct 24, 2013: South Africa's remorseless progress towards complete domination, and the lack of a contest, made for tough viewing but I managed to stay awake

The experience of Switzerland-like neutrality in Dubai

Oct 23, 2013: The curious case of watching cricket as a neutral observer in Dubai, one of the world's odder places

Three sheep in the back of a rickshaw

Oct 18, 2013: This week's vignettes from the streets of Bangalore and Mumbai are oddly cattle-themed

The most cricketous area in the world

Oct 10, 2013: The tour kicks off in Mumbai, with a visit to the maidans, where all of cricket is displayed in a microcosm

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

Things to live for over the next few months

Sep 26, 2013: The Ashes are over, but dry your tears, there's oodles of fantastic cricket to come

The unsung micro-Botham

Sep 5, 2013: In this Ashes series, Tim Bresnan was statistically unspectacular but impactful

The interactive Ashes review

Aug 26, 2013: Multiple-choice answers let you decide who takes what from the series

Ashes stats for any time and everywhere

Aug 20, 2013: On the train, under water, while chewing your food or sloganeering, these milestone numbers for the Oval Test won't let you down

The narrow thrashing of Australia

Aug 14, 2013: In which Ian Bell goes solo the way Wally Hammond did back in 1928-29

Can Australia defy the history of third Tests of the Ashes?

Aug 9, 2013: Or will they be squashed like bugs by the weight of the past and by England, who they squashed mercilessly all these years?

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