Features

A case for data that goes beyond mere numbers

Current stats and match numbers struggle to provide insights into the actual value a player brings to his side, underlining the need for the nature of information to evolve

20-Dec-2016•Jarrod Kimber

Trent Woodhill's brave new, data-driven world

Melbourne Stars' list manager is using facts and stats in trying to build the perfect team, making up the rules as he goes along

20-Dec-2016•Jarrod Kimber

A horsey delivery, and doubles in double-quick time

Also: batsmen out on 199, keepers who opened after a long stint on the field, and the highest score by an England No. 8 on debut

20-Dec-2016•Steven Lynch

Scenes from the BBL revolution

Once the BBL's main issue was the cost of getting started. Now it is making the most of the boom without allowing it to cannibalise Australian cricket

19-Dec-2016•Daniel Brettig

'You're a hero. You're a hero'

In a corner of the vast Gabba stands, a small band of Pakistan supporters watched their team almost pull off the greatest chase

19-Dec-2016•Melinda Farrell at the Gabba

Finishing big

The top five fourth-innings totals in Test cricket

19-Dec-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Australia hold on to win the unlosable

History nearly repeated itself as Australia looked like they would lose yet another Test from a position of complete control

19-Dec-2016•Brydon Coverdale at the Gabba

Pakistan claim the Gabba with heart, and mind

With an application rarely seen in their batting performances overseas and a constant willingness to believe, Pakistan made history, and yet didn't quite make it

19-Dec-2016•Jarrod Kimber at the Gabba

The Test match of the year?

A thrilling Gabba Test highlighted how Pakistan continue to remain predictably unpredictable

19-Dec-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

Pakistan's fourth-innings high

Stats highlights from the fifth day of the first Test in Brisbane, where Pakistan scored 450 in the final innings but lost by 39 runs

19-Dec-2016•Bharath Seervi

Pakistan's ugly yet glorious day

Pakistan might have been very slow and slightly flawed on day four at the Gabba. But they triumphed over common cricket logic, as they have done so often for so long

18-Dec-2016•Jarrod Kimber at the Gabba

When everyone had to work a little 'extra'

Australia took the extra extra half hour, much after the scheduled close, in anticipation of a win. But at the end of an everlasting gobsmacker of a day, Pakistan dared to dream

18-Dec-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Brisbane

A remarkable fourth-innings fight from Pakistan

Stats highlights from the fourth day at the Gabba, where Pakistan fought hard to finish on 8 for 382, a rare strong performance in a chase outside Asia

18-Dec-2016•Bharath Seervi

Pakistan survive trip down Sunset Boulevard

Pakistan's first-innings failings under the Gabba lights didn't augur well for their second attempt. But they found a new resolve to fight another day

17-Dec-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Brisbane

Australia's game-changer returns for another innings

The Big Bash League is back for its sixth season on Tuesday, and it is bigger business than ever before

17-Dec-2016•Will Macpherson

Pakistan's cycle of horrors in Australia

Pakistan's batting collapse on the second day of the day-night Test at the Gabba was a continuation of their woeful history on Australian pitches

16-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Pakistan give their heads away

The story of a Pakistan collapse isn't new. But this one saw them getting hit on helmets, struggling under lights, and they didn't lose their heads, they gave them away

16-Dec-2016•Jarrod Kimber at the Gabba

Younis hits six-innings career low

Stats highlights from the second day's play in Brisbane, where Pakistan collapsed in their first innings

16-Dec-2016•Bharath Seervi

A tale of two rookies

Peter Handscomb has looked nerveless; Nic Maddinson has appeared nervous. They debuted together in Adelaide, but could hardly have had more different experiences at the Test level

16-Dec-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Brisbane

The evolutions of Smith, Handscomb and Renshaw

Australia's top performers at the Gabba against Pakistan have changed, in varying degrees, from the players they had once been

15-Dec-2016•Brydon Coverdale in Brisbane

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