On the Road with Zaltzman

Dasher Dhoni's masterpiece delivers victory pizza

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

A World Cup final exam

Final Day

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Bad Pakistan triumph over Good Pakistan

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.

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The most important event in the history of the planet?

Well, this is all very exciting

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Is there a game in Mohali on Wednesday?

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The mother-in-law of all spankings

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

A fast-acting, unHeimlichManoeuvrable choke

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Why Kohli did not play a stupid shot

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

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

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Being there for Rampaul's 52nd

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Chawla to dress in dog costume

Our reporter reports on a clever new strategy pioneered by India

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Cricket, history and Sachin Tendulkar

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Capitalism and John Logie Baird nearly cost England

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.

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Ball-dunking and grudge-dredging

Andy Zaltzman lies about the World Cup

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Unexpected and instant fame for the number 29

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

England share joy of winning with lesser teams

Apologies for the rather late posting of today’s blog

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Twenty utterly crazy minutes

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

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

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

With England, appearances are deceiving

What an odd team England are

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