The Confectionery Stall

Andy Zaltzman's satirical, whimsical look at cricket

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Hurt after Lord's? Don't despair

There's plenty of hope for England, because old scorecards never lie

Twenty-nine players who could be crucial this Ashes

A handy, brief shortlist of the cricketers who might conceivably have an impact on the series

Don't go, New Zealand

Come back and play a one-off Test-ODI-T20 simultaneous hybrid megamatch

Let us now praise boys on burning decks

Plus: spry old debutants, and a Headingley duds XI

Spot the spurious stat

Find the one fact in this list that isn't unimpeachably true

A Test match for the kids

The Lord's Test was many things. Among them, it was useful for educating the next generation in the delights of Test cricket

Can New Zealand inspire a new England?

The teams visiting England this summer hold the blueprints for rapidly returning from the depths of underachievement. Cook & Co will hope to sneak a peek

It's KP's fault

The facts show he was terribly ineffective in the six Tests of their last 12 that England ought to have won

What England have learned (and what they ought to have)

A comprehensive Barbados review, with nuggets of statistical splendidness

You go, Joe

And the second question in our pulsating, if glacially slow, quiz on England's series in the West Indies

In praise of Jase

And a quiz on how best England's performance in the West Indies can be described

What We Have Learned

We need crocodile pits at the boundary

And other lessons learned from the quarter-finals, including the fact that the waist is a philosophical concept

What We Have Learned

Hold back your best player

Selectorial wizardry and logic decoded

What We Have Learned

Don't walk

It's a World Cup, for crying out loud

What We Have Learned

England will not win a World Cup in a year beginning with 2

And other lessons from the World Cup so far, y'all

What We Have Learned

The World Cup is too long (or not)

Listen up, children. Also: full swinging deliveries still work

What We Have Learned

A mix-up with Kohli is a good omen

What we have learned so far in this World Cup

World Cup-ending throat restrictions and political squabblings

Part two of our World Cup Achilles heel report explains why South Africa are in the wrong hemisphere and why UAE are better off building skyscrapers

The World Cup Achilles heel report

A look at potential banana peels for some teams, with specific instructions for paramedics and physios

What's in a rematch?

Why group-stage head-to-heads are a big deal when it comes to the knockouts. Or not

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