Friday, 31 May 2019

Preview - World Cup group match 2 - West Indies vs Pakistan

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Today's match is at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. If any ground in the world has taken over the mantle of "most batting friendly grou...
Thursday, 30 May 2019

A simulation to see who will win the World Cup

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One of the main purposes of statistics is to help inform decisions. Cricket statistics are often used when deciding on selection of player...
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Saturday, 23 March 2019

A new way to look at bowling economy rates for the IPL

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Sunrisers Hyderabad had made a great start, but their innings had started to plateau. At 161/7 off 18 overs they had the opportunity to get ...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Paine vs Pant

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The Instagram photo.  I wanted to quickly share my thoughts about the Paine - Pant sledge. I've been an outspoken critic of "...
Saturday, 24 November 2018

Historical statistical preview of the Second Test, Pakistan vs NZ

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I've decided to put together a short summary of some of the historical trends at Dubai, before this match. First, the probability of d...
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Thursday, 22 November 2018

Can we determine a batsman's ability based on how he gets out?

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I saw an interesting discussion online recently, suggesting that we could tell that some players had a better technique than others, based o...
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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Comedy Run Out Set to Music 5

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In a field of strong contenders, this might be the best yet. Will Somerville got hit by Ben Horne, dived, probably made his ground (based ...