Even as Laxman Sivaramakrishnan kept uttering the name of his own home city, supposedly in his mother tongue nonetheless, that hosted the most recent historic Indian test win as "Chenaaai", the victory itself seemed to have come rather naturally to the Indian team. In Virender and Gautham,...

Do you know what Don Bradman's Test average is? Of course you do. Except, apparently, you don't. Via Ottayan comes news that Charles Davis, a cricket-mad statistician, says he's uncovered a possible missing four runs from Bradman's record : In the scorebook of the epic eight-day fifth...

Straight Point recently wrote about the Fab Four for those who might be sleeping . And there has been a chorus of disapproval of their recent lack of runs . I too am wary of statistics. What is the value of a statistical analysis? Or, even simpler, just the numbers themselves as a record of achievement...

Kartikeya spots a telling moment during the recent IPL game between Rajasthan and Delhi, as umpire Steve Davis appears to have been pushed into a referral to the third umpire on a run out decision by the Delhi fielders: I have been critical of the IPL for granting Farokh Engineer the authority to officially...

D.S. Henry runs through the types of arguments that have been made against the IPL . My favourite is what he calls the "USA, EPL, therefore mushroom cloud" fallacy: I’ve said this once before but, as Jack White tells us, it bears repeating now: there are plenty of areas in which to criticise...

I really ought to be writing about the IPL. But can't it wait just a little longer? There'll be time enough for it with a game every single day just around the corner. Chrispy rounds out a World Test cricket XI : So the Test XI of 2007-2008 , as indicated by the statistics, is as follows: Virender...