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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using analytics from medicine to compute batsmen's survival rates

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