Category: The Numbers Room
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The Purple Patch Has a Half-Life
Why modern T20 batting superstars burn brighter and cool faster. SKY, Abhishek, Klassen, Pooran have all seen spectacular highs and alarming lows within months even weeks.
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The Ball Was Their Business
Sandpapergate established who planned the crime, who carried it out and who failed to stop it. It never satisfactorily answered a more uncomfortable question: what did Australia’s bowlers know?
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The Curious Case of Marnus Labuschagne
Marnus Labuschagne was never a statistical fraud. But one of the most extraordinary rises in modern Test cricket was materially amplified by an equally extraordinary run of fortune. Here is what happened when the catches started sticking.