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Things you didn't know about India v Lanka
Given the somewhat tumultuous ups and downs in the Test series, and the innumerable variables that have been introduced since, you wouldn’t want to stake anything too expensive on either of the teams.
Now ‘stats’ is a slightly scary word and may put unsettling images of thousands of complex numbers floating around. But it is quite simple here, really. Hell, if you are smart enough to understand cricket, you should get this, no problem. A little study of some recent stats involving both teams, using some interesting tools such as Squadstats, puts forward some curious revelations regarding which way the ODI series could go.
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HW SquadStats |
1913 |
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62 |
Sheffield is back
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holdingwilley |
798 |
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63 |
Top ICL players
The best players from the ICL
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holdingwilley |
1694 |
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64 |
Top T20 International Batsmen
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holdingwilley |
2095 |
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65 |
The Age Factor
A common topic of discussion when talking of T20 is the relevance of the age of the players. There is probably no clear answer (yet) about whether or not age makes any difference. The following stats may or may not provide that answer, but what it will do is provide some insights.
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Jatin Thakkar & Sreeram Ramachandran |
1403 |
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66 |
The IPL XI
It is a reasonably routine and cliched idea but it is a great deal of fun so let us just do it.
The difference this time, of course, is that the list is being picked not arbitarily but based purely on the ranking points of the players, so it probably provides some kind of tangible, fact based response.
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HW Edit |
1526 |
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67 |
The IPL's Best
The best from the IPL's first season
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Jatin Thakkar |
2442 |
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68 |
Team performances so far
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Sreeram Ramachandran |
662 |
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69 |
The trail of blood
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Sreeram Ramachandran & Jatin Thakkar |
1460 |
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70 |
Influence on games won & games lost
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holdingwilley |
2050 |
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71 |
Twenty20 World Championship: Key performers (Part II)
There are very few days that pass without any Australian International cricketer criticizing or downplaying Twenty20 and the various tournaments featuring this brand of the game. The Aussie stance on the 20 over version of the game is clear – good fun, as long as it is taken for nothing more than that – just fun. All this talk might give the general public the impression that since they aren’t taking Twenty20 so seriously, they may not be as big a threat as they are in the other versions of the game.
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Sreeram Ramachandran & Jatin Thakkar |
1449 |
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72 |
Blown to Ashes
Australia vs England 5th Ashes Test
So, it took 86 years for this to happen – a clean sweep in the Ashes. A bit surprising, given how mismatched Ashes contests have been in the last couple of decades or so, but there’s no doubt that this was the fair result, given the line-ups this time. And it was the feebleness of the collective English Spirit that ultimately was no match for inspired Aussie intensity.
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Jaideep |
1769 |
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73 |
Flip Flops and Goodbyes
Australia vs England 4th Ashes Test
What a difference a year makes. Apparently still drunk with all that bubbly and sorely lacking the on-the-field focus that Michael Vaughan was so committed to, a haplessly underprepared English squad have proceeded to melt in the heat of Australia's 'winter' leaving the urn next to the now-spreading puddle where they once stood.
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Jonathan |
2059 |
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74 |
Why test cricket rules
India vs South Africa 1st Test
Australia vs England 3rd Test
New Zealand vs Sri Lanka 2nd Test
Two unbelievable performances in test matches in Australia and South Africa, with vastly varying results for the home teams. Australia, very overwhelmingly came close to winning the Ashes back as it pulverized an unimaginative England – with Gilchrist retaining his touch and blasting the second-fastest century of all time. And India, wonder of wonders, produced its greatest medium pace/ swing bowling performance abroad, as it blew away a dazed South Africa for 84. Both matches exemplified the irresistible drama of test cricket at its best.
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Jaideep |
3243 |
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75 |
Aye aye to electronic eye
I couldn’t agree more with Sanjay about the electronic eye aiding the umpire. There are too many bizarre arguments thrown up by traditionalists (and other kinds of people too) which quite simply don’t take the betterment of the game into account. One such reasoning is that part of the game’s charm is this variable of human error from the umpire. This is ridiculous, as it does not take into account the players’ careers that could be on the line, or the match that could be at a razor’s edge (like Strauss’ wicket today). It really is time to let scientific progress lead to attitudinal progress here.
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Jaideep |
2499 |
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76 |
The cliché-bending sardar spinners
Ashes 3rd Test, 1st Day: Australia 244 all out; England 52-2
One of the great clichés in India is that Sikhs are more about brawn than brain. That there are hardly any sardar intellectuals, nor is there much of an intellectual culture amongst the majority of them adds to the jibe. Though partly true, like all clichés, its disproving (and exceptions) is quite spectacular, and nowhere is it better achieved than in cricket. More precisely, when it comes to spinners.
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Jaideep |
2218 |
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77 |
Warriors vs Whiners
Australia vs England 2nd Ashes test
Responding to Ravi’s lament. Just want to say one thing – at high school, did you by any chance know a whiny, xenophobic bunch of snots, who cribbed at the drop of a hat when they visited anyone else’s home, often over-ate wildly, had upset stomachs and then blamed the host’s quality of food? Because that’s how touring English teams have been for a while, at least in the subcontinent (Mike Gatting, anyone?). The whole Trescothic nonsense (and the Thorpe episodes before that) should tell you that the team is still in the throes of those glorious tantrums even in these so-called professional times.
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Jaideep |
2443 |
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78 |
Champions Trophy - an overview
An overview of Champions Trophy 2006
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Jaideep |
383 |
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