Stats

A measure for the strength of a Test team

Introducing a method of boiling a team's prowess down to a numerical value

09-Aug-2013•Kartikeya Date

Everyone's a winner

But no one will win. Probably. Of course, someone has to, in the end. Anyway: the official Confectionery Stall preview

07-Jun-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Bring on the cricket megabinge

Seven Tests, 31 ODIs, six T20Is in 124 days. Let us lick our lips for what we are about to receive

15-May-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Tendulkar: should he stay or should he go?

In the Indian Express, Surjit S Bhalla and Ankur Choudhary weigh up Sachin Tendulkar's contributions to his teams in numbers and his decision to play on

28-Apr-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

20 balls, 0 fours: Sunrisers perfecting the strangling act

Six games into their short history, Sunrisers Hyderabad have already become one of only three teams to dismiss set batsmen without conceding a boundary on three different occasions

25-Apr-2013•Shiva Jayaraman

Some vital numbers from the IPL

When it comes to the spangliest league of them all, if it can't be counted, it doesn't have a value. But they're not counting everything

18-Apr-2013•Alex Bowden

Peter Fulton's marvellous metamorphosis

From knocking about with the numerical nobodies, he is now mingling with the mathematical megaliths

08-Apr-2013•Andy Zaltzman

What do the numbers say about Tendulkar?

Has Tendulkar really declined as a match-winner over the last ten years? Looking through the ESPNcricinfo database and, like a bumbling detective in the mould of Inspector Clouseau, I offer my fact-based critique

28-Mar-2013•Safi Thind

Matt Prior and the tantric massage of luck

All hail England's fortunate MVP

27-Mar-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Don't bat (especially if you're a Kiwi)

Despite the head shaking at Brendon McCullum's decision to insert England in Wellington, the statistics suggest batting first in Tests is not a sure-fire route to success - particularly if you are New Zealand

24-Mar-2013•Paul Ford

Just how bad are Australia?

Not as much as they look at the moment, is the answer, children. Ten irrefutable splodges of statistical truth-telling to get you through the night

19-Mar-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The importance of making 163 on debut

Or why Hamish Rutherford has blown his chance at immortality: a piercing statistical analysis

12-Mar-2013•Andy Zaltzman

Lions with snoring problems, and light-sleeping wildebeest

Aka everything you wanted to know about the New Zealand-England Test series but were afraid to ask

05-Mar-2013•Andy Zaltzman

The vexed question of 'not outs' in Test cricket

The statistical measurement of a player's batting average is one that has survived unaltered for 130 years of Test cricket - but it suffers from a fundamental flaw in the way 'not outs' are handled

04-Mar-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Where is No. 2 and No. 20?

A study to rank and analyse Test batsmen and bowlers across various performance parameters

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Analysing Test dismissals across the ages

A detailed look at various forms of dismissals in Tests, and their frequency over the years

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Where does Sangakkara sit in the 10000 Club?

There is a French proverb that states that "to compare is not to prove"

25-Feb-2013•Michael Jeh

Tests during 2012: an alternate look

A detailed statistical review of individual and team performances in Tests played in 2012

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Test XV - the final readers' selection

Selection of an all-time Test XV based on readers' votes

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

The fifteen that Gods would stop to watch

A stats-based selection of an all-time XV evaluating mutliple batting and bowling parameters

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

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