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

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

While he stroked his way to a fluent and majestic hundred, his team-mates struggled to find the boundaries, something that is very likely to cost England in their upcoming games

All West Indies and New Zealand had to do in their respective matches was simply turn up and wait for their opponents to shoot themselves

Hamid's headband, Shapoor's distance sprint to the wicket, and Mirwais' shining scalp provided examples of the glories of an inclusive global tournament

What we have learned so far in this World Cup

The ball-by-ball structure of cricket gives its crowd noise a hypnotic rhythm, the stadium rising and falling with each major event, most minor events, and some non-events

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

There is nothing more dangerous than peaking too early - apart from being patently inferior to one of your main rivals

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

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

 The first in a new mini-series on classic World Cup rivalries: England's batting v progress

In part one, we remember an inconsequential eighth-wicket stand of 23

Did you know that if you bowl economically, you won't win the World Cup?

Plus, mind-boggling stats from the Australia-India series

Two hundred years before the laws of the game were codified, Leonardo da Vinci was a fan

How cricket missed out on a canine with KP's game-changing ability remains a mystery

If not for his otherworldly assignments, the Greek god of sky and thunder would have owned cricket

Chuck another leathery beastie on the barbie and ponder: what if our ancestors had taken up the game?

Plus, Hillary-Norgay's previously undocumented Everest cricketing duel