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Anantha Narayanan

The world's best all-rounder

A bowler who can bat a bit (Abid Ali) or a batsmen who can turn his arm a bit (Sehwag) or a bowler who chances his way to a hundred (Agarkar), have at various times have been dubbed as all-rounders

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Good in isolation, great as a pair

Even though the batsmen always bat in pairs, it is in bowling that the players are very effective operating in tandem

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Another look at the best ODI batsmen

Stats analysis ranking the best ODI batsmen

25-Feb-2013•Ric Finlay

The best two ODI batsmen - Richards and Tendulkar

The large number of comments received and the very valid points mentioned in these have made me come out with a follow-up to my article on the best ODI batsman

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Tendulkar and Richards swap places as best ODI batsmen

In my previous article I had taken two important ODI batting measures and attempted to analyse batsmen skills using those

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Sir Donald Bradman - a fresh analytical look

I am not sure whether I would jump with joy if someone, as reported recently, conclusively proved that Don Bradman scored those elusive four runs, by mistake credited to Jack Ryder, during 1929

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Richards the king, Tendulkar his heir

The ODI batting average is a single-dimensional measure incorporating only one part of the total measure needed to measure a batsman, viz, runs scored

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

The new unbowlable

Although he is not the most dynamic batsman going around, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been carving himself a most unusual statistical place in recent years

25-Feb-2013•Charles Davis

The highest peaks and lowest troughs for batsmen

Brian Lara finished his career with a batting average of more than 50

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

The best performance in a single Test

When people talk of the most outstanding performances in a single Test match, a few superlative displays come to mind

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Extrapolating high scores in Tests

When comparing the biggest team scores in Tests, the results can be a bit messy

25-Feb-2013•Charles Davis

The night-watchman story - Part II

In the first part I looked at a methodology for determining night-watchman situations and looked at individual performances

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

The best night-watchman in Tests - Part I

The night-watchman concept in Test cricket is a paradox

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

'Unfulfilled' team innings in ODI matches

A look at performances in ODIs in which teams didn't make use of all their resources, and ended up losing matches despite having plenty of wickets in hand

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Why Australia's 2001 line-up is the best ODI side- A follow-up

After a few tweaks in response to reader suggestions, here is an improved version of the piece that was done on May 23

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Why Australia's 2001 line-up is the best ODI side

How strong is an ODI team and how do the teams compare over the 37 years of ODI cricket

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

So near yet so far

When Virender Sehwag strode out on the fourth day of the recent Test against South Africa in Chennai, he already had 309 runs to his name

25-Feb-2013•Charles Davis

Sensational sessions

Test cricket has changed in many ways over the decades; to the statistician, one of the most striking is the speed at which it is played

25-Feb-2013•Charles Davis

Bowlers with the most high-quality wickets - a follow-up

Many good suggestions were received to my previous post on quality of wickets taken by bowlers

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

The bowlers who took the most high-quality wickets

In the wickets column of scorecards there is the bland pronouncement that a bowler has captured x number of wickets

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

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