Apr 16, 2024
Longest six in cricket history: what the lists claim, and what the tracking shows
Shahid Afridi’s 153-metre six tops almost every list, but cricket keeps no official distance record and the biggest numbers are projections rather tha...
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56 articles tagged with "IPL"
Apr 12, 2024
DRS full form in cricket: what the Decision Review System is, and how often reviews actually work
Three out of every four DRS reviews fail. A derivation of 11,818 reviews across Tests, ODIs, T20Is and the IPL shows who gets them right, and why the...
Jan 19, 2024
Sharjah Cricket Stadium pitch report: records, stats and the ground with the most ODIs
The ground with the most ODIs in the world, a T20I pitch that rewards the side batting first, and the place India made their lowest ODI total: the Sha...
Nov 9, 2023
Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru: pitch report, records and stats
Bengaluru is supposed to be the easiest batting ground in India. Across the last four IPL seasons its first-innings average is within a run of the lea...
Jan 15, 2023
Retired hurt vs retired out in cricket: the difference, and how often the batter comes back
Retired hurt keeps the right to resume; retired out spends a wicket to speed the scoring. We counted every retirement in the ball-by-ball record to fi...
May 15, 2022
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai: pitch report, history and records
Brabourne had the highest first-innings average of the four grounds in the 2022 IPL, and it staged the Test where India made 726/9. The pitch report,...
Apr 20, 2022
Golden duck in cricket: what it means, every type of duck, and how often each happens
A duck is any dismissal for nought and a golden duck is one to the first ball faced. Here is what every type means, and what the ball by ball record s...
Oct 23, 2021
Dubai International Stadium pitch report: records, stats and India’s unbeaten ODI run
A T20I par of about 147 that has barely moved since 2009, a chase edge in ODIs and an India side that has never lost an ODI here: the Dubai pitch repo...