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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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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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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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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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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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A Bolivian view of cricket

7 Number of weeks taken to confirm pre-tournament near-certainties Australia as 2007 World Cup champions.

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Gatting sweeps history

41 Number of runs scored by Mike Gatting in the 1987 World Cup final, before attempting a reverse-sweep that has gone down as "the single greatest act of folly in British history" ( Exaggeration Monthly magazine).

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Prelude to the World Cup preview

This is a warning: over the next two months, you'll be subjected to more Andy Zaltzman than cricket

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Blaming the Eden Gardens? Look at the Colosseum

And how India's construction industry has manfully taken some of the World Cup pressure off the team's shoulders

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Andy Zaltzman’s World Cup Memories ‒ Part One of a New One-Part Series

Part one of a one-part series of World Cup memories

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The curse of premature momentum before the World Cup

And how teams are trying their best to avoid it

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The Ashes boot is truly on the other foot

Happy New Year, Confectionery Stallers, and welcome to the first ever edition of this crickoblog to have been composed when the words “England retained the Ashes by obliterating Australia with a phenomenal display of total cricket” could be written

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Rah rah England

Andy Zaltzman watches the Perth Test with eyes wide shut

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Tendulkar's Christmas blues

Andy Zaltzman's disturbing stats could give South Africa the upper hand against India

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The Ashes adjective-swapping programme

And all the stats you can take from Adelaide without waking up with a hangover

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Another (totally accurate) Ashes prediction

Pay attention, Confectionery Stallers

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Brilliantly underperformed, boys

England are a fifth of a way to a glorious 0-0 Ashes scoreline

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Mirror, mirror, who'll win the Ashes?

A reflective conversation between Andy Zaltzman and his inverted image where they prove, among other things, how AB de Villiers prevented the break-out of World War III

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Australia? Don't make me laugh

Decisive man-by-man proof that the hosts will be toast in this year’s Ashes

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Dravid's humanitarian gesture

And why Australia have no choice but to win the Ashes

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