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Talking Points - Have Mumbai found a weakness in Kohli's game?

His IPL stats against left-arm quicks is a little below the standards he likes to set and Jason Behrendorff exploited it brilliantly

15-Apr-2019•Alagappan Muthu and Srinath Sripath

Talking Points - Abhishek Sharma's backspinning legcutter

Just when Colin Munro was threatening a big, game-defining innings, the 18-year-old Sunrisers debutant unveiled a nifty little variation

14-Apr-2019•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Smart Stats: Tahir's haul worth 5.4, the best this season

Tahir finished with figures of 4-0-27-4, but his Smart Stats were even better, given the batsmen he dismissed and the time when he dismissed them

14-Apr-2019•ESPNcricinfo stats team

Tahir shows spin still rules at Eden Gardens

Stats wise, it's been the worst ground for spinners in the IPL this season, but Imran Tahir showed that can be overcome

14-Apr-2019•Sreshth Shah in Kolkata

Talking Points - KKR's worst death-overs performance batting first

And for a team that often talks down its own fielding, how good was Super Kings' catching today?

14-Apr-2019•Alagappan Muthu

India and the No. 4 piece of the World Cup squad puzzle

Most of India's World Cup squad has been firmed up, but the competition for the remaining places throws up the familiar question of the No. 4 slot and the second allrounder's position

14-Apr-2019•Nagraj Gollapudi

Luck Index: De Villiers' reprieve proves costly

RCB may have had 24 fewer to chase had they reviewed an lbw call off Gayle

13-Apr-2019•ESPNcricinfo Stats Team

From 6/12 to 0/53 - a week in the life of Alzarri Joseph

He returned the best figures in IPL history on debut, but the Mumbai pacer has now conceded the most runs in a three-over spell in the competition

13-Apr-2019•Annesha Ghosh in Mumbai

Talking Points - A stop-start innings from Chris Gayle

The Kings XI opener's unbeaten 99 followed an old-fashioned ODI template, featuring a distinct middle-overs slowdown

13-Apr-2019•Karthik Krishnaswamy

A hat-trick, a five-for, and the IPL trophy - Sandeep Sharma's wishlist

The seamer talks about his role at Sunrisers Hyderabad, learning the knuckle ball, bowling to the likes of Gayle and Kohli, and more

13-Apr-2019•Hemant Brar

Smart Stats: Buttler does half of Royals' job

ESPNcricinfo's Smart Stats reckons Jos Buttler contributed 49% to Rajasthan Royals' four-wicket win against Mumbai Indians

13-Apr-2019•ESPNcricinfo Stats team

Hamilton boys Santner and Kuggeleijn tussle to fill Bravo-sized hole

The two have adapted quickly and already put in match-winning performances for Chennai Super Kings

13-Apr-2019•Deivarayan Muthu

Talking Points - Hardik Pandya drags Mumbai out of a hole, again

Mumbai Indians continue to be far too inflexible with their batting order, while Rajasthan Royals were anything but with their field placements

13-Apr-2019•Srinath Sripath

The Rishabh Pant question: In or out of India's World Cup squad?

Kiran More and Deep Dasgupta dissect Rishabh Pant's batting and keeping, and discuss whether he fits into the final 15 or not

13-Apr-2019•Nagraj Gollapudi

An away win in Kolkata marks Sourav Ganguly's perfect homecoming

He emerged from the away dressing room at Eden Gardens, addressed the media clad in Delhi Capitals' red and blue, and later headed for his office as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal

13-Apr-2019•Sreshth Shah in Kolkata

IPL's soft signal on Dhoni is a chance put down

The game's most high-profile league and its most successful player came up against each other. Here was a chance to set a fitting precedent; in the end the league blinked

13-Apr-2019•Karthik Krishnaswamy

Round Two: Andre Russell bosses the Kagiso Rabada tussle

The fast bowler had won last week's meeting with an inch-perfect Super Over yorker. How would it go this time?

12-Apr-2019•Sreshth Shah in Kolkata

Talking Points - Is it the familiar mid-season Nitish Rana struggle again?

And has Prithvi Shaw failed to address an old technical flaw?

12-Apr-2019•Srinath Sripath and Karthik Krishnaswamy

Vote - Which is your favourite slower ball of all time?

Chris Cairns bamboozling Chris Read? Lasith Malinga's array of slower dippers? Or one of Mustafizur's cutters? Vote for your favourite among them all

12-Apr-2019•ESPNcricinfo staff

How many slower balls does cricket have?

We count, and describe, so you don't have to

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