Shiva Jayaraman

Senior stats analyst, ESPNcricinfo

Gayle's big splash, and Bhuvneshwar's stifling defence

The round-up of smart stats from the first 22 matches of this IPL season also features D'Arcy Short and Gautam Gambhir's scoring troubles

24-Apr-2018•S Rajesh & Shiva Jayaraman

The smart stats round-up: Dhawan's rise, and Lynn's fall

The smart stats leaders and laggards after the first ten days of IPL 2018

17-Apr-2018•S Rajesh & Shiva Jayaraman

How do Royals resolve the Rahane issue?

If the captain isn't the best man to open the innings, who is?

15-Apr-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Rangana Herath and Akila Dananjaya rewrite record books

Sri Lanka's spinners - one a veteran and the other a debutant - made history in their team's win over Bangladesh in Mirpur

10-Feb-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Captain Markram - two ODIs; the rest - 803 ODIs

Aiden Markram is one of the most inexperienced captains ever to lead a top ODI side, taking over the reins temporarily from the injured Faf du Plessis

05-Feb-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Kohli becomes India's highest scoring Test captain

He went past Sunil Gavaskar and MS Dhoni to take the record

26-Jan-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Strikers, Scorchers all but through to BBL playoffs

No team has confirmed their place in the playoffs of the Big Bash League yet, but the two teams currently at the top of the table are highly likely to book their places

18-Jan-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Boult's new high, and a top-order in shambles

The lowest total for a visiting side in New Zealand, Pakistan's losing streak, and other statistical highlights from the third ODI in Dunedin

13-Jan-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Munro's third ton, New Zealand's highest score

The New Zealand batsman's three T20I centuries have come in his last ten innings

03-Jan-2018•Shiva Jayaraman

Smith continues his prolific run

Steven Smith hit yet another hundred - the 23rd of his Test career - to ensure a draw in the Boxing Day Test

30-Dec-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Another one-sided Ashes result

Australia completed their 33rd Ashes series win to move ahead of England overall

18-Dec-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

De Grandhomme hits fastest maiden Test hundred

Colin de Grandhomme also blasted the second fastest Test century by a New Zealand batsman, with all of his runs coming in the third session in Wellington

02-Dec-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Ashwin: quickest bowler to 300 wickets in Test history

He took the fewest matches and deliveries to reach the landmark besting Australian greats Dennis Lillee and Shane Warne

27-Nov-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Dowrich and Holder emulate 109-year-old feat

West Indies' innings is only the second in Test history with hundreds from two batsmen batting at No. 8 or lower

01-Nov-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Shreyas Iyer: consistently quick

Out of the Mumbai batsman's 11 first-class centuries, as many as six of them have come at a strike-rate of over 90

27-Oct-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Four centurions and a change that hasn't worked

Taijul Islam endured a forgettable time, while South Africa's batsmen made merry with an unprecedented four centuries in a Test innings at home

07-Oct-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

From 841 for 20 to 252 for 20

The fifth day in Abu Dhabi produced one of the rarest reversal of fortunes in Test history

02-Oct-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Herath v Azhar Ali: Seven innings, seven dismissals

Also, 50 quick runs for the ninth wicket that could be match-defining

01-Oct-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Seven sessions of grind

Test matches in the UAE tend to unravel after three days of slow cricket, and the Pakistan-Sri Lanka encounter is no different

30-Sep-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

Dinesh Chandimal: nine hundreds, six bail-outs

Sri Lanka's Dinesh Chandimal is building a reputation as a batsman who can make Test hundreds to rescue his team

29-Sep-2017•Shiva Jayaraman

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