An analysis of beehive data of lines and lengths bowled to these batters from 2012 onwards provides some insights

There's a fair bit to be learned by looking at these bowlers in terms of the support (or lack of it) at the other end

Why form is more about technique than scores

They use up more of the team's innings than they need to for the runs they produce

The Runs Above Average Replacement metric provides a fuller assessment of batsmen than just their average

How have batsmen and bowlers gained and lost under the various eras of the lbw law?

It's a good idea for the ICC to adopt the ELO system to rank teams

In the first half of ODI innings, yes. In Tests, not really

To be truly successful, Test cricket has to fit better into contemporary life

An analysis of their numbers brings distinct patterns to light

There are ways to account for the fluctuating value of a hundred in one-dayers

To see him in that light is to misunderstand what he truly brought to the game

Looking at how they have performed against top-rated opposition bears out the claim

The ICC has been on a quest to get it right since 2005; the rules put in place four years ago might be the closest we have come to optimum so far

A look at how ODI cricket before 2005 approached the question of risking wickets efficiently to score the highest possible total

Conventional wisdom still advocates keeping wickets in hand for sustained attack in the second half of a chase. The results say that's not quite the way to go about things

There is a clear, sound and well settled pattern to how the country's national sides are selected

An analysis of the standout statistical trend from Test cricket in the year gone by

The England-India series was much closer than the margin suggests, but that's not to say that England were undeserving winners

Our insistence on thinking of players this way is because of cognitive biases