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Schedule Table Series

Himanish Ganjoo

The magician's wrist: how Bumrah does what he does

The snap he imparts produces large amounts of backspin - which makes the ball to do things other bowlers can't make it do

21-Jul-2025•Himanish Ganjoo

The pitch boomerang: how India's rank turners are biting them, not the opposition

In recent years India have been rolling out Test pitches with high turn, but rather than boosting the home side, they have brought the opposition into the game

15-Jan-2025•Himanish Ganjoo

Deception by dip: the T20 spinner's invisible weapon

When slow bowlers put overspin on the ball, its trajectory, bounce and deviation change, making the batter's job more difficult

19-Sep-2024•Himanish Ganjoo

How T20 is making spinners bowl shorter and faster

Standardised pitches and attack-minded batters have had an impact on the slow bowlers' approach

30-Aug-2024•Himanish Ganjoo and Sidharth Monga

Do teams benefit when their batters play long innings in T20s?

Why being set does not translate into enhanced hitting efficiency beyond a point

20-Jul-2022•Himanish Ganjoo

How much risk do Kohli, Pant and KL Rahul take when they attack in the IPL?

Two of these players are more risk-averse now than you might think

24-Mar-2022•Himanish Ganjoo

How R Ashwin tweaked his line and used dip, drift and changes of pace to become the world's best Test spinner

He is a radically different bowler from the one he was before 2015 and the numbers say as much

06-Sep-2021•Himanish Ganjoo

Why the last five years have been tougher for Test batters than the rest of this century

It's harder to get starts, home and away; the bowling is generally high-quality and more relentless; and conditions have become more difficult to combat in some places too

18-Jun-2021•Himanish Ganjoo

Do match-ups work in T20? The data says yes

We can calculate how effective a batter or bowler is against a specific type of opponent in each phase of a game

17-Apr-2021•Himanish Ganjoo

Kohli, Smith or Root: who's the most consistent of them all?

We look at how evenly (or not) a batsman's good scores are spread across their career

08-Feb-2021•Himanish Ganjoo

How many boundaries should a T20 team attempt in an innings? More than you might think

Why fours and sixes are the primary grammar of the format. And will increasingly be so

09-Dec-2020•Himanish Ganjoo

How many wins do the top players contribute to their team in an IPL season?

We find out by using a model that looks at how much the top batsmen and bowlers outperform the average player by

23-Oct-2020•Himanish Ganjoo

What is the template for a successful chase in the IPL?

A look at how teams successfully get to targets in the tournament and what they do at each stage of a game

31-Aug-2020•Himanish Ganjoo

How far ahead of the average batsman of his era is Steven Smith?

Comparing the top batsmen of each era against the average player of that period

16-Jun-2020•Himanish Ganjoo

Which Test batsmen are the most consistent? Let's look at how often they score fifties

Consistency is not only about scoring fifties or hundreds frequently, but also about maintaining even gaps between such scores

24-May-2020•Himanish Ganjoo

How good are Kohli, Smith, Williamson and Root at occupying the crease?

An analysis of the survival rate of the top Test batsmen today

19-Sep-2019•Himanish Ganjoo

Tip to India's opponents: get Rohit Sharma out for under 15 runs

An analysis of the opener's ODI career using the survival curve - which shows you the exact distribution of a player's scores

08-Jun-2019•Himanish Ganjoo

How can India best use Dhoni in the World Cup?

He is neither the accumulator nor the enforcer he used to be. There can be a role for him, but it depends on the circumstances of the game

03-Mar-2019•Himanish Ganjoo

How to account for not-outs more accurately when assessing batsmen

Using analytics from medicine to compute batsmen's survival rates

27-May-2018•Himanish Ganjoo

The serial toppers: batsmen analysed by series dominance

Which batsmen fare the best when their careers are assessed on their relative performance to others in every series they played in?

13-Feb-2018•Himanish Ganjoo

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