Kartikeya Date

In defence of the bouncer

The delivery is essential to the game, but we need to guard against its abuse

05-Jan-2015•Kartikeya Date

Bowling to blame for India's poor overseas record

The inability to build pressure by denying runs, even on pitches with sufficient help to keep batsmen honest, is India's biggest problem

21-Dec-2014•Kartikeya Date

Ganguly or Dravid: who was a better ODI captain?

Both backed younger players but their leadership brands were different and so were their win-loss records

11-Dec-2014•Kartikeya Date

Pace unlike fire

The great West Indian bowling attacks were ferocious, ruthless, and storied. But were they as incisive and effective as the great Australian attacks?

03-Dec-2014•Kartikeya Date

Rohit's innings a symbol of ODI batting's changing mindset

The recent trend of massive individual scores in ODIs owes to batsmen realising they can get a lot more out of each ball

25-Nov-2014•Kartikeya Date

Does the follow-on work in its current form?

A team with a lead of any size should have the option of enforcing the follow-on in the third innings of a Test, boosting their chance of taking 20 wickets

11-Nov-2014•Kartikeya Date

A comparison of the Fletcher and Flower eras

Though both coaches had more wins than losses, Fletcher's team competed better against top-quality opposition and were more dominant at home

27-Oct-2014•Kartikeya Date

The visceral beauty of fandom

It is the fans' money and attention, and the players' skills and efforts that are indispensable to sport. Investors and broadcasters merely market the show

12-Oct-2014•Kartikeya Date

A method to rate the dominance of Test teams

Taking into account margin of victory and draws, while eliminating arbitrary decay in setting cut-off limits

21-Sep-2014•Kartikeya Date

What the Indian calendar is doing to its bowlers

R Ashwin and Ishant Sharma's lack of first-class experience and consequent decline in skills speak volumes about the BCCI's skewed priorities

12-Sep-2014•Kartikeya Date

What cricket can learn from baseball's review system

In baseball, technology is used to help experts, not to second-guess them

28-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

Are slow over-rates really a problem?

Time should be considered wasted only when a bowling side tries to slow the game down for its own benefit

16-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

India's bowling weakness outside the subcontinent

Without good-quality third and fourth bowlers, India will continue to struggle outside the subcontinent despite their talented batting line-up

02-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

The decline of the specialist attacking bowler

Why do teams pick a fourth bowler who is practically incapable of taking five wickets in a Test innings simply because he can score a fighting 40?

19-Jul-2014•Kartikeya Date

Time to enforce Law 24

If umpires are allowed to judge every delivery on its merits, the problem of throwing can be solved

06-Jul-2014•Kartikeya Date

Match-by-match analysis of control data

How much would individual batsmen score if they batted all 20 overs by themselves, and how frequently would they be in control?

22-Jun-2014•Kartikeya Date

Mining control statistics

What can data based on the control batsmen have over their shots tell you about innings and results?

10-Jun-2014•Kartikeya Date

The calculus of the batting average

The batting average is a misleading indicator. How about a scale that is more representative of batting performance?

29-May-2014•Kartikeya Date

The time and space of T20 cricket

Insisting that T20 is simply ODI cricket minus the boring middle overs is disingenuous

15-May-2014•Kartikeya Date

Are T20s more exciting than ODIs?

There may be more last-over finishes but weak teams win T20 games more often than they do ODIs

29-Apr-2014•Kartikeya Date

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