India now has learned to win overseas. Their visit to Australia was the 80th overseas series since 1932. Here are stats snippets of series win outside Asia. The Border-Gavaskar series (2018-19) was their first ever series win in Australia in … Continue reading
The 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar series is 2-1 at end of 3rd Test, favoring India. There is some coincidence going into 4th Test match at Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia haven’t lost a test match at SCG since 2011. It was the Ashes … Continue reading
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There has been a drop in batting run-rate in test matches for Australia at home. It was during last year’s Ashes series(2017-18) their run rate started to slip down alarmingly(home and away)!. In that series their overall rate in 8 … Continue reading
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Australia’s test batting is under pressure. Since the ban of 3 players(David Warner, Cameron Bancroft and Steve Smith) involved in ball-tampering, their batting has been very poor. It is the lower-order/tail-end batsmen that has not allowed any embarrassment of low … Continue reading
Test cricket analysis on batting partnership and batting position. Here is a graphic analysis of this year’s(2018) test performance of all test playing nation. All data updated at end of 31st December 2018.
T20 cricket is about 120 balls to be played, hence each ball is relevant to the outcome of the game. As India start their complete Australian tour with T20I series, we take a look at how Aussies have performed post … Continue reading
India in Australia History and trend As India embark on their full tour to Australia. We look at their recent success down under. Interestingly their recent success (this century) has been very similar to overall success in all format in … Continue reading
As a cricket fan or as a player I would like to know certain facts of my team and the team I am playing against. It is called THE LIST, and not based on performance on the ground, but related … Continue reading
ICC have taken T20I seriously, as we had regular 3-match series played across the globe in bilateral contest this year. I believe it is important to take this format very seriously, and have mandatory of minimum of 3-mach series between … Continue reading
So far Women’s T20 World Cup -2018 has been a low scoring tournament. I believe swing/seam being the major factor for this. Hence all is not lost for teams like South Africa and New Zealand who still have two games … Continue reading
After the defeat at hands of South Africa in 1st ODI in their ongoing 3-match series, I look at Australia post World Cup(2015)performance. They have played 64 ODIs in 16 series (including bilateral and ongoing series v SA) won only … Continue reading
In T20I there is an apparent trend of team losing more wickets while batting first. Perhaps this might be one of the reason for them to field first after winning the toss. Currently(Oct onward) there are few series played across … Continue reading
As Australia start their Int. home season, we wonder amidst recent controversies (https://ab.co/2Qj77Tg) this coming season would be a reckoning period for them? First up they are facing South Africa in 3 ODIs and only T20I – followed by a … Continue reading
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Batting was the major reason for Australia to lose their test series v/s Pakistan in UAE. After suspension of top 3 players (2 opener and middle order), Australia went into this series with a fresh group of opening batsmen. This … Continue reading
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Is Australia’s 50-over domestic tournament JLT, a proxy practice for next year’s World Cup ? Last year Western Australia won the JLT trophy convincingly. They had a great start to the tournament and never lost their momentum. However this year, inspite … Continue reading
