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Lopsided Pitches: Think Again

July 7, 2023

Kartikeya Date looks at the conventional wisdom about pitches favouring fast bowlers and spinners

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In Analysis Tags Kartikeya Date, Data, Pitch, Fast, Turning track
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West Indian greats at home and away: Perils of using cliches in analysis

July 15, 2021

When cliches take over ‘analysis’ we often get stupidity

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In Analysis, Closer look at Claims, Perception Readjustment, Use of Data Tags Joel Garner, Arunabha Sengupta, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, Ian Bishop
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Cricket's Birthday Problem

November 15, 2020

In any cricket match, there is a 47.58% chance of two players among the 22 fielded sharing the same birthday.

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In Saying it with Figures, Perception Readjustment, Analysis Tags Arunabha Sengupta, Birthday Problem
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How Good is Ashwin?

September 16, 2020

How good is Ashwin?

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In Analysis Tags Ravichandran Ashwin, Arunabha Sengupta
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Mohammed Shami: A pace spearhead of a rare kind in Indian cricket

September 3, 2020

Mohammad Shami was born on 3 Sep 1990

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In Analysis Tags Mohammad Shami, Arunabha Sengupta
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How incredible is Anderson's incredible feat of fitness and longevity?

August 26, 2020

How incredible is Anderson’s feat of 600 wickets in terms of fitness and longevity? It is incredible, but not really as unimaginable as it is being made out to be

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In Closer look at Claims Tags Arunabha Sengupta, James Anderson, Courtney Walsh, Richard Hadlee
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Simon Katich: Criminally Underrated

August 21, 2020

Simon Katich was born on 21 Aug 1975

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In Saying it with Figures Tags Simon Katich
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Chetan Chauhan: Written off too hastily?

August 17, 2020

Chetan Chauhan … was he discarded too soon?

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In Analysis Tags Arunabha Sengupta, Chetan Chauhan
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How did the helmets affect Test cricket?

July 22, 2020

How did the helmets affect Test cricket?

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In Closer look at Claims Tags Arunabha Sengupta, Effect of Helmets
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Tendulkar or Lara: Who is a better batsman? The question is often about defending the fan's memory

July 5, 2020

Was Tendulkar better or Lara? Most often the question is something else altogether. It becomes a defence of the fan’s memory … which in turn can be quite misleading. Kartikeya Date talks about how we should go about looking at the questions

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In Use of Data Tags Kartikeya Date, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara
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Who was the best against the famous four-pronged West Indian pace attack?

July 3, 2020

It is widely accepted that the most difficult bowling attack ever was the four-pronged West Indian pace machine that dominated world cricket for nearly 20 years. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers to see who the best batsmen were against fearsome fast bowling.

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In Analysis, Perception Readjustment Tags Wasim Raja, Sunil Gavaskar, Arunabha Sengupta
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WG Grace: Greatest cricketer ever?

July 18, 2019

WG Grace, born July 18, 1848, was the first superstar of cricket and the man who gave it the form in which it is played today. He remains one of the greatest cricketers to have graced the sport. Abhishek Mukherjee evaluates Grace’s career in numbers to confirm the greatness of the legend.

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In Analysis Tags WG Grace, Abhishek Mukherjee
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The Boundary Rule of CWC19: What if we had such measures in other sports?

July 15, 2019

What are the ‘more boundaries’ rule in other sports? Arunabha Sengupta ponders

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In Stupidity Tags Boundary Rule, Cricket World Cup 2019, Arunabha Sengupta
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England cricket team and the triumph of data

July 13, 2019

Peter Moores was variously criticised, laughed at and ridiculed when he suggested that the English team had to look at the data after the 2015 World Cup exit. However, four years down the line, the very same data-driven strategy has worked wonders for them. Abhishek Mukherjee analyses

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In Use of Data Tags Peter Moores, Data, Abhishek Mukherjee, World Cup 2019
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The most difficult batsmen to dismiss once set

February 2, 2015

We often hear commentators branding batsmen as ‘difficult to dismiss once set’. However, can we really validate this claim for different batsmen? Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers and comes up with rather surprising results.

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In Perception Readjustment Tags Most difficult batsmen to dismiss
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George Headley - was he really tested at the highest level?

January 31, 2015

George Headley was celebrated by his fans as second only to Don Bradman. Some even went to the extent to call Bradman the White Headley. However,Arunabha Sengupta tries to find out whether there is sufficient evidence to say that he was indeed better than the rest of the batsmen of his time.

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In Perception Readjustment Tags George Headley
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Did Demon Spofforth have the measure of WG Grace?

January 31, 2015

WG Grace ruled the cricket world with the bat. Fred Spofforth did so with the ball. One played for England the other for Australia. The rivalry was bound to be legendary. But were the encounters one-sided? Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers to find whether or not the Demon had the edge on The Father of Cricket.

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In Closer look at Claims Tags WG Grace vs Fred Spofforth
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How did Don Bradman fare against Clarrie Grimmett

January 31, 2015

The tales of the rivalry between Don Bradman and Clarrie Grimmett are legendary. In his old age, Grimmett maintained that The Don was not really good against accurate leg spin. Bradman maintained that he knew all about Grimmett’s variations. Arunabha Sengupta looks at the numbers to find out how they actually fared against each other.

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In Closer look at Claims Tags Bradman vs Grimmett
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How did helmets affect the dynamics between fast bowlers and batsmen?

January 26, 2015

Arunabha Sengupta looks at the perception that helmets affected the revenue of pace bowlers since they came into play from 1978.

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In Perception Readjustment Tags Effect of Helmets
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