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The Final Day Of The Ashes 26 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
The fifth Ashes Test at the Oval ended in a draw with England needing 21 runs to win in about 4 overs when the Umpires took the players off for bad light. For some reason, the bad light ruling is one ...
On Over Rates And Time Wasting 23 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
On Day 2 at the Oval, England bowled 39 overs in three and a half hours according to one estimate. Their overrate was decidedly slow. At first glance, it was clearly below the prescribed 15 overs per ...
Toss And Bowling Average 22 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
The toss is an underrated aspect of Test cricket. What if each bowler played half his Tests when his team won the toss and half when he didn't. How would it change their career records? Would it be fa...
Brydon Coverdale Misses The Point 21 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
Everyone cheats. Lehmann shouldn't single out Broad simply because he thinks it was blatant. He ought to stop trying to play mind games and focus on his own work. Thats the gist of Brydon Coverdale's ...
On Ravindra Jadeja's ODI Bowling Ranking 15 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
Ravindra Jadeja is currently ranked the world's Number 1 ODI bowler (jointly with Sunil Narine) according to the ICC's official player rankings. This ranking says more about the current weakness in OD...
Scyld Berry on Khawaja 15 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
Scyld Berry has been in the news recently because a seemingly innocuous match report he wrote contained an apparently breathtaking line about Australia's embattled top order batsman Usman Khawaja. “He...
The Most Compelling Reason Against Involving Players In Umpiring 11 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
Day 2 of the Ashes Test at Durham was a great advertisement against involving players in any way in umpiring decisions. Here's a sample of actions by players on the field: Read more »
Test Team Strength 1989 - 2013 11 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Here is a companion slideshow to my post over at Cricinfo's Cordon. The batting and bowling strengths used in these graphs involve consideration for hosts, opponents, and grounds. I've included broad ...
Chris Rogers Test Hundred 10 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
In the last 4 years Marcus North, Shaun Marsh, David Warner, Philip Hughes and Eddie Cowan have all played Test cricket for Australia. Not just Test cricket Ashes cricket. They've done so ahead of Chr...
Measuring The Strength Of A Test Team 10 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am
I wrote a post at Cricinfo's Cordon explaining a way to measure the strength of a Test team.
