Kartikeya Date

Does the follow-on work in its current form?

A team with a lead of any size should have the option of enforcing the follow-on in the third innings of a Test, boosting their chance of taking 20 wickets

11-Nov-2014•Kartikeya Date

A comparison of the Fletcher and Flower eras

Though both coaches had more wins than losses, Fletcher's team competed better against top-quality opposition and were more dominant at home

27-Oct-2014•Kartikeya Date

The visceral beauty of fandom

It is the fans' money and attention, and the players' skills and efforts that are indispensable to sport. Investors and broadcasters merely market the show

12-Oct-2014•Kartikeya Date

A method to rate the dominance of Test teams

Taking into account margin of victory and draws, while eliminating arbitrary decay in setting cut-off limits

21-Sep-2014•Kartikeya Date

What the Indian calendar is doing to its bowlers

R Ashwin and Ishant Sharma's lack of first-class experience and consequent decline in skills speak volumes about the BCCI's skewed priorities

12-Sep-2014•Kartikeya Date

What cricket can learn from baseball's review system

In baseball, technology is used to help experts, not to second-guess them

28-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

Are slow over-rates really a problem?

Time should be considered wasted only when a bowling side tries to slow the game down for its own benefit

16-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

India's bowling weakness outside the subcontinent

Without good-quality third and fourth bowlers, India will continue to struggle outside the subcontinent despite their talented batting line-up

02-Aug-2014•Kartikeya Date

The decline of the specialist attacking bowler

Why do teams pick a fourth bowler who is practically incapable of taking five wickets in a Test innings simply because he can score a fighting 40?

19-Jul-2014•Kartikeya Date

Time to enforce Law 24

If umpires are allowed to judge every delivery on its merits, the problem of throwing can be solved

06-Jul-2014•Kartikeya Date

Match-by-match analysis of control data

How much would individual batsmen score if they batted all 20 overs by themselves, and how frequently would they be in control?

22-Jun-2014•Kartikeya Date

Mining control statistics

What can data based on the control batsmen have over their shots tell you about innings and results?

10-Jun-2014•Kartikeya Date

The calculus of the batting average

The batting average is a misleading indicator. How about a scale that is more representative of batting performance?

29-May-2014•Kartikeya Date

The time and space of T20 cricket

Insisting that T20 is simply ODI cricket minus the boring middle overs is disingenuous

15-May-2014•Kartikeya Date

Are T20s more exciting than ODIs?

There may be more last-over finishes but weak teams win T20 games more often than they do ODIs

29-Apr-2014•Kartikeya Date

A measure for batting and bowling effectiveness in T20

Strike rates and economy rates do not quite tell the whole story. Introducing a new, two-dimensional method of assessing players in T20

16-Apr-2014•Kartikeya Date

The problem with low catches

The cricket cognoscenti is largely eager to give the fielder the benefit of the doubt when a catch is referred. This should not be the case

10-Apr-2014•Kartikeya Date

Why T20 is a disfigured caricature of cricket

Scaling the contest down to 20 overs without changing the rules only leads to a grotesque imbalance between bat and ball

24-Mar-2014•Kartikeya Date

What can speed guns tell us?

They may provide objective information about the pace of the bowling, but the complete picture is provided by also considering the way batsmen respond to pace

16-Mar-2014•Kartikeya Date

Running the rule over modern English batsmen

Why Atherton, Thorpe and other batsmen from the 1980s and 1990s were no worse than the current crop

01-Mar-2014•Kartikeya Date

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