Numbers Game

India's bowling performance at Rajkot was one of their most disciplined in the last five years, while Harbhajan Singh gets his home groove back

Sri Lanka have an awesome record in home ODIs, but when they've travelled it has been a different story

The Numbers Game looks at how spinners have performed in one-day internationals over the decades

The Numbers Game looks at Glenn McGrath's penchant for ruffling top-order feathers

The Numbers Game looks at how the players from the Australian and World XI teams stack up against each other

Throughout the history of the game, the captains with the most wins have been those with able lieutenants who could execute the drawing-board strategies

Statistically, it's tough to convert a wicketkeeper's performances into numbers which can be compared and rated. S Rajesh tries his hand at rating glovemen

Sri Lanka's high percentage of matches against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, and left-arm seamers against them

How dropped catches hurt Australia much more, and England's key partnerships

Rahul Dravid's tendency to get bowled in the last one year, and debutants blooded in by various teams

Perhaps numbers never do reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it

Why Adam Gilchrist's failure has been the biggest drawback for Australia, and dismissals by substitutes

Which teams enjoy home conditions the most, and the best partnerships among fast bowlers

Perhaps numbers never do reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it

Simon Jones and Shane Bond join the 50-wicket club, while Stephen Fleming gets to a milestone as well

Which venues have been good for which teams, and captains leading by example in an Ashes series

Four specialist bowlers or five, and how Australia have coped with Glenn McGrath's absence in the past

How Michael Vaughan has struggled in both defence and attack over the last 30 months

S.Rajesh plays the Numbers Game

India's bowling in one-dayers in the last couple of seasons