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One Call from Tamim, Two Days for Charu Sharma: What D3's Auction Bought Was Process, Not PlayersOne phone call. Two to three days' notice. And the most recognisable auctione...
An 89-Run Last-Wicket Stand and a 113: A Data Audit of Pakistan's Lahore WinGaddafi Stadium, Lahore. The scoreboard said 242/9 and Pakistan had won by on...
The Empty Data Room: Indian Cricket's Real Price Is Set in a Closed Room, Not on the PitchThe file came back empty. Thirty-two analytical slots, and every slot carried...
Shaheen Afridi's 150 ODI Wickets in 80 Matches: Faster Than Waqar and Shoaib, But Not a Certificate of GreatnessShaheen Shah Afridi reached the top of his run-up at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore,...
The Empty Grid Around Kuhnemann: Australia’s Test Selection Blind SpotThe Empty Grid Around Kuhnemann: Australia’s Test Selection Blind Spot “Not...
Eight Empty Columns: The Cricket Report That Came Back 'Successful' and Brought NothingOn a Wednesday afternoon a file opened on a Mumbai data desk. Eight columns:...
A Karachi Circular With a Cricket Label: Auditing a Mislabelled FeedA little before eleven on Friday night, an item dropped into the feed. Label:...
The Tip Sheet With No Receipt: The Transfer Window's Most Honest DocumentAt eleven at night, in a flat in Kolkata, a file opens on a laptop. Eight tab...
Tilak's Storm and the Empty Line in the Ledger: Three Stories Buried Under India's Christchurch WinBy the end of the seventeenth over, the Hagley Oval scoreboard was repeating...
Pakistan's Test Reset: A Squad of Fourteen and One Empty ChairThere is a warm-up match in Rawalpindi from 4 to 6 November. Nobody will...
The Feed Came Back Empty: In Cricket Coverage, 'No Information' Is Also NewsThe room on the second floor of that Banjara Hills building was twelve by...
Help Arrived After the Newspaper: Mehedi Hasan Hridoy, 18, and the Scorecard That Was Never FilledAt twelve noon, in Dhaka, at Bangladesh Medical University Hospital, an...
One Win, Two Changes and One Unstated Injury: India's Real Scorecard in the 2nd T20IHook The clipboard said one thing at the toss. Shreyas Iyer won the coin and...
India A's Top Order and the New-Ball Window: Why KL Rahul's 8-Ball Duck Is a Mechanism, Not a Form VerdictThe scorecard recorded eight balls and zero runs. What it did not record was...
The Lesson of 70/5 at Hagley Oval: Tilak Varma's Method, Santner's Lone Spell, and New Zealand's Death-Overs PuzzleAt the end of the 11th over, the scoreboard read 70/5, and the target was 181...
Ishan Kishan's adductor strain and Mayank Yadav's unexplained change: weighing the 2nd T20I team news on the data scaleOn my desk in Ahmedabad I keep a ledger — one file per series, one page per...
An 89-Run Last-Wicket Stand and a 113: A Data Audit of Pakistan's Lahore WinGaddafi Stadium, Lahore. The scoreboard said 242/9 and Pakistan had won by on...
The Empty Data Room: Indian Cricket's Real Price Is Set in a Closed Room, Not on the PitchThe file came back empty. Thirty-two analytical slots, and every slot carried...
Shaheen Afridi's 150 ODI Wickets in 80 Matches: Faster Than Waqar and Shoaib, But Not a Certificate of GreatnessShaheen Shah Afridi reached the top of his run-up at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore,...
The Empty Grid Around Kuhnemann: Australia’s Test Selection Blind SpotThe Empty Grid Around Kuhnemann: Australia’s Test Selection Blind Spot “Not...
Eight Empty Columns: The Cricket Report That Came Back 'Successful' and Brought NothingOn a Wednesday afternoon a file opened on a Mumbai data desk. Eight columns:...
A Karachi Circular With a Cricket Label: Auditing a Mislabelled FeedA little before eleven on Friday night, an item dropped into the feed. Label:...
The Tip Sheet With No Receipt: The Transfer Window's Most Honest DocumentAt eleven at night, in a flat in Kolkata, a file opens on a laptop. Eight tab...
Tilak's Storm and the Empty Line in the Ledger: Three Stories Buried Under India's Christchurch WinBy the end of the seventeenth over, the Hagley Oval scoreboard was repeating...
Pakistan's Test Reset: A Squad of Fourteen and One Empty ChairThere is a warm-up match in Rawalpindi from 4 to 6 November. Nobody will...
The Feed Came Back Empty: In Cricket Coverage, 'No Information' Is Also NewsThe room on the second floor of that Banjara Hills building was twelve by...
Help Arrived After the Newspaper: Mehedi Hasan Hridoy, 18, and the Scorecard That Was Never FilledAt twelve noon, in Dhaka, at Bangladesh Medical University Hospital, an...
One Win, Two Changes and One Unstated Injury: India's Real Scorecard in the 2nd T20IHook The clipboard said one thing at the toss. Shreyas Iyer won the coin and...
India A's Top Order and the New-Ball Window: Why KL Rahul's 8-Ball Duck Is a Mechanism, Not a Form VerdictThe scorecard recorded eight balls and zero runs. What it did not record was...
The Lesson of 70/5 at Hagley Oval: Tilak Varma's Method, Santner's Lone Spell, and New Zealand's Death-Overs PuzzleAt the end of the 11th over, the scoreboard read 70/5, and the target was 181...
Ishan Kishan's adductor strain and Mayank Yadav's unexplained change: weighing the 2nd T20I team news on the data scaleOn my desk in Ahmedabad I keep a ledger — one file per series, one page per...