The Confectionery Stall

Andy Zaltzman's satirical, whimsical look at cricket

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Multistats

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Some eye-gouging stats about Dale Steyn and his contemporaries

Pakistan in South Africa 2012-13

What sub-50 innings scores teach us

A wealth of learning is packed into this post. (And also the most meaningless stat of the month)

One-day cricket

Wanted: more Powerplays, and warlocks as umpires

Lessons to be learnt from series gone past

Multistats

Using over-rate fines for important research

If something isn't done to stop cricket from further slowing down, the game could be severely threatened by 2100

England in India 2012-13

Viva New Zealand

Whatever would connoisseurs of inconsequential stats do without their contributions?

2013

Aristotle's predictions for 2013

Famous Greek philosopher weighs in on the year ahead. Hypothetically

Awards

The Faisalabad Befuddler, and a collective tribute to Chris Martin

Includes Cricketer of the Earth and what the BCCI needs to do to make Gautam Gambhir score runs again

Awards

The mercilessly squeezed goose and other stories

In other words, the Confectionery Stall's World Cricket Awards, part one

England in India 2012-13

The Nagpur slab of compacted disappointment

An anti-climax of epic proportions

England in India 2012-13

Willy Shakespeare's famous words, and the RP malaise

One bowler defines everything that's wrong with Indian cricket

Ashes 2013

England have won the Ashes

Why Australia may as well not bother showing up next year

England in India 2012-13

Ashwin administers CPR

And the Indian hope that lies not in its fields but its stands

England in India 2012-13

Get a move on, will you?

How can you not be irked by the outbreak of dawdling on day three in Kolkata?

England in India 2012-13

India show how it shouldn't be done

And debating the impregnability of Alastair Cook

England in India 2012-13

Full analysis: the Sehwag run-out

What was Gautam Gambhir thinking?

Numbers

The ultimate guide to seduction

Stats that will help you reel in that perfect partner

South Africa in Australia 2012-13

Like an unloved pancake in a hippopotamus-rolling competition

Your questions answered

England in India 2012-13

What do cricketing retirements have in common with Stalinist Russia?

Both are devoid of logic and justice, that's what

England in India 2012-13

Foothold, chokehold, body slam

The evolution of England from the second innings in Ahmedabad

England in India 2012-13

The devastating self-restraint of Monty Panesar

In which the turbanned one fails to present Andy Flower with a cake frosted with sarcasm

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