Andy Zaltzman

Stand-up comedian; writer

England share joy of winning with lesser teams

Apologies for the rather late posting of today’s blog

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Lists on which both Chakabva and Boon appear

On the evidence of yesterday in Pallekele, Muttiah Muralitharan is quite popular in this part of the world

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Bradman's kitchen cricket average

387 Ross Taylor's strike rate, in runs per 100 balls, during the last 16 balls of his Pallekele Powerblast against Pakistan

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Twenty utterly crazy minutes

The words “spectacular” and “New Zealand batting” have not always sat comfortably together in the same sentence

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Unravelling the mystery of Kamran Akmal's chirps

Today’s blog consists of the first batch of responses to the Ask Andy questions that you, the reader, have submitted

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With England, appearances are deceiving

What an odd team England are

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Running out a chub

9 The most number of times a batsman has been run out in World Cup history

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Impromptu cricket matches and an elephant

I arrived in Colombo yesterday to be greeted by (a) my wife and children; (b) more heat than a pasty-skinned Englishman is genetically designed to withstand; and (c) the confirmation that England had definitely lost to Ireland the day before

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A fireman's stat

2 The number of Sri Lankans caught at third man in the first over of the momentous 1996 World Cup semi-final in Calcutta

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The finest innings of all time by a man with pink hair

Kevin O’Brien narrowly beats Wally Hammond to the title

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Boomtown Bangalore and the Bat Bash Bonanza

Andy Zaltzman's second World Cup podcast features reports from the crucial Bangalore Brave Hearts v Hyderabad Nawabs game, and a slightly less diverting international held in the same city, featuring one Peter Suchin Tendulkar

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When MS met WG

We have a picture too

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A Sultan's folly

13 Legendary 1996 UAE captain Sultan Zarawani's highest World Cup score, an 18-ball encyclopaedia of batsmanship against New Zealand that included the master's only international boundary.

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Why Tendulkar is bigger than Woods or Federer

I am going to go out on a journalistic limb and say that yesterday’s game in Bangalore was, without question, a decent cricket match

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Why stand-up comedy is like the first day of a Test

Had someone told me as a child that, at some point in my life, I would jump out of a chair in an office in Bangalore when watching a Bangladesh bowler take an Irish wicket on the television, I would probably not have believed them

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Gavaskar's ODI double

967 The number of balls Sunil Gavaskar would have had to face to equal Sachin Tendulkar's ODI record score of 200, had he continued batting at the rate at which he scored his infamous 36 not out in the first ever World Cup match at Lord's in 1975.

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No rogue snacks please, this is Delhi

A vastly impressive South African performance yesterday was overshadowed by an even more impressive effort by the various security forces in operation at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi

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Farmer plucks match out of English hands

134 Lowest total defended to win a World Cup match - Zimbabwe restricted England to 125 all out at Albury in 1992, inspired by Eddo Brandes' 4 for 21.

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England get poor performance out of the way early

Nagpur saw a much more entertaining game than most were expecting

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Why we need three games a day

The first of Andy Zaltzman’s epic audio despatches from the World Cup

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