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Why middling scores make for the best kind of ODI

Runfests usually kill games as contests. But team scores a little below 300? Now we're talking

30-Oct-2023•Sambit Bal

Glenn Phillips: the part-timer who doesn't do part time

In the highest-scoring match in ODI World Cup history, Glenn Phillips returned incredible figures of 3 for 37

28-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga

Stats - The highest aggregate in a World Cup match

Australia become the first team to score 350-plus in three successive ODIs

28-Oct-2023•Sampath Bandarupalli

Mitchell Santner keeps opponents guessing with control and guile

New Zealand left-arm spinner set to play his 100th ODI, with Australia sweating over his kind of bowling in Dharamsala

27-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga

Dear World Cup, please be more exciting, please?

There have been three upsets already, but no close finishes, and very little jeopardy thanks to the tournament format

24-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Getting close to India? You've been hustled

For moments during the first innings, especially when Kuldeep Yadav was attacked, the home side were under some pressure but they responded in style

22-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Virat Kohli leaves them wanting more after narrowly missing out on No. 49

Dharamsala nearly witnessed a repeat of the finish in Pune only for Kohli to fall short of his hundred with victory assured

22-Oct-2023•Shashank Kishore

Shami shreds safety-first script to present India with another way

A five-for on his first appearance of the tournament might encourage India to rethink their team balance

22-Oct-2023•Shashank Kishore

The pushing and shoving is over and we're now at the business stage of the World Cup

The first fortnight of the tournament has been a mixed bag for most teams, save for India and New Zealand, who have been in impressive form

22-Oct-2023•Ian Chappell

World Cup trends: Where have all the thrillers gone?

This weekend, all teams would have played four of their nine round-robin games. What do the numbers from the first half of this World Cup tell us?

22-Oct-2023•Sidharth Monga and Shiva Jayaraman

Can New Zealand's winning machine suck the air out of India's inevitability?

The two sides have been near-perfect at this World Cup, and there is little to separate them going into Sunday's clash

21-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Tactics board: India's top order vs Boult and Henry, Santner's threat in the middle overs

Where the India vs New Zealand game could be won and lost

21-Oct-2023•ESPNcricinfo staff

Matt Henry among the best, and has got better - the numbers show it

The New Zealand quick is playing his third ODI World Cup, but the understated way he goes about things means he doesn't always get the acclaim

21-Oct-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

In Williamson's absence, Latham steps up as astute leader

New Zealand have had several injury setbacks during their World Cup campaign, but their stand-in captain has ensured they have four wins in four games

20-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

Santner emulates Vettori and rouses Chepauk

Mitchell Santner is only the second NZ spinner after his hero, Daniel Vettori, to 100 ODI wickets

18-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

New Zealand's do-it-all man Glenn Phillips shows he can play the waiting game

He can whack, he can bowl, he can keep, he can leap - and he can rebuild an innings on a slow track with his side under immense pressure too

18-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

Did Mohammad Rizwan make the highest World Cup score by a wicketkeeper?

And how many times has a World Cup innings featured three centurions?

17-Oct-2023•Steven Lynch

Boult knuckles down in a changing ODI landscape

"Over here on good wickets, you have to have a couple of balls up your sleeve that you can go to under pressure"

14-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

Ferguson's spell from hell

His rapid pace and bounce gives cutting edge against Bangladesh

13-Oct-2023•Deivarayan Muthu

How Litton Das' ill-fated flick encapsulated Bangladesh's luckless night

New Zealand were easily the better side on Friday, but Bangladesh didn't do too much wrong themselves and still ended up losing with a lot of overs to spare

13-Oct-2023•Karthik Krishnaswamy

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