The traditional metric has served well, but it doesn't take context into account

The Fizz, Big Bravo, and two New Zealanders with the same name star in our pick of the best T20I bowling performances of 2016

Nerveless final-over blasting, composed chasing, and mature risk-management - that's how our nominees batted in T20Is this year

The rise and fall of the English club's T20 dynasty

Jack Brooks gave Yorkshire fleeting hopes of victory but rain intervened to leave them frustrated on the final day at the Ageas Bowl

With Middlesex looking to force a result in Birmingham and Nottinghamshire and Durham collecting valuable points in their match, days like this in Southampton can shape entire seasons

Yorkshire scrapped furiously in the field on a warm afternoon at the Ageas Bowl to turn a crucial match back in their favour

Gareth Berg took his first five-wicket haul in five years as Hampshire's attack made the best of favourable conditions to reduce the champions to 275 for 9

A staggering innings by Ashar Zaidi that defied both Middlesex, and more pertinently a tired Lord's pitch, carried Essex to a crucial victory

These are tough times for Hampshire and their coach, Dale Benkenstein, is trying to find a way to reinvigorate the season of Michael Carberry to aid a relegation fight

Centuries by Johann Myburgh and James Hildreth made Hamshire suffer for their batting inadequacies of the first day

Hampshire's badly out-of-form batting line-up collided with a superb Somerset bowling performance on the way to a crushing six-wicket defeat

The shortest format should be the environment in which the fastest men can thrive

Anthony Everard, the head of the Big Bash League, talks about plans to expand its fan base, and what he has picked up from other franchise-based competitions

The viewing figures for last month's T20 Finals Day at Edgbaston were 10 per cent down on the previous lowest recorded in 2013, and 498,000 worse than the highest recorded in 2005

Derbyshire began the third day with thoughts of perhaps forcing a first-innings lead but ended it trailing by 247 runs after Surrey plundered 560

After nearly decade without a first-class trophy Surrey hardly need to be reminded how tough county cricket, regardless of the division, can be

On a rain-marred first day in which Surrey collected the first of the 15 points they require to guarantee promotion back to the top tier of the County Championship, they found themselves in a better position than their fielding deserved

While the franchise system might seem impractical, splitting the T20 Blast into two divisions could be a win-win situation for the ECB and the counties

Holding an evening knockout fixture on a ground without floodlights betrays a lack of common sense. If the ECB is to back the 18-county structure for T20, it needs to take greater responsibility