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Freddie Wilde previews the Delhi Capitals. Last Season: 8th The 2018 IPL represented another disappointing campaign for Delhi who were the first team unable to qualify for the Play Offs and finished at the bottom of the table. Delhi were unfortunate with injuries with Chris Morris and Kagiso Rabada ruled out halfway through the campaign […]
The 2019 Indian Premier League season is playing host to an entire team’s worth of England-qualified players. Ben Jones casts his eye over the 11 Englishmen about to take to the stage. JOS BUTTLER – Rajasthan Royals Has an Englishman ever had a better IPL than Jos Buttler did in 2018? Even when Ben Stokes […]
As the Pakistan Super League continues to be dominated by sides batting second, Ben Jones considers some reasons for this ever-increasing trend. In a climate where for numerous reasons cricket has not been top of the agenda, this Pakistan Super League season has been quietly intriguing. On the surface, this may not appear to be […]
Ben Jones analyses another dazzling century from England’s white ball star. There’s a moment, just after a batsman has hit a ball in the direction of the boundary, where your eyes are dancing. They are trying to assess the trajectory of the ball, to predict whether it will fall short or fly over the rope, […]
Ben Jones analyses the ever-increasing role of the change-down in England’s ODI bowling plans. Slow isn’t a word you often see applied to this England ODI side. Rapid? Sure. Reckless? Often. But slow? Rarely is anything to do with this collection of dashers and chargers labelled as being slow. Yet in one crucial instance, Eoin Morgan’s boys are attracting this label. In the ODI series taking place […]
CricViz summarise some of the key talking points from week one of the PSL. QUETTA LEAD THE WAY Quetta Gladiators are the early pace setters in the fledgling PSL table. Three matches, three run chases, three wins for the men in purple who have remarkably scored exactly 161 in each of their three successful chases. […]
England went 1-0 up in the first of five ODIs against West Indies. Patrick Noone analyses the innings of two of the game’s centurions. England completed their highest ever successful run chase in ODI cricket, winning the 1st ODI by six wickets in Barbados. It was the story of two hundreds as two openers played […]
CricViz Analyst Freddie Wilde assesses England’s pace bowling options in ODIs. With 99 days to go until the World Cup England’s batsmen and spinners are locked in. Alex Hales looks set to be the reserve batsman with Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes forming the top six and […]
It was a thrilling conclusion to a long and eventful story. The eighth edition of the Big Bash League culminated at Marvel Stadium on Sunday with Melbourne Renegades crowned champions for the first time. The win was as improbable as it was dramatic. Crosstown rivals Melbourne Stars were 93-0 in pursuit of 146, before a […]
It was a thrilling day of flimsy batting in the face of some hostile bowling. Patrick Noone analyses the performances of the pacemen from either side on Day 2 in St Lucia. Batting collapses and hostile fast bowling; two of the most compelling spectacles to watch in cricket. Both keep you transfixed to every ball, […]
Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes batted through the evening session as England had the better of Day 1 of the third Test. Patrick Noone picks out the key moments in St Lucia. After below-par batting performances in both Barbados and Antigua, there were calls for changes to be made to the playing XI. But the […]
West Indies completed a series win over England as they took an unassailable 2-0 lead in Antigua. Patrick Noone looks at how Alzarri Joseph played a pivotal role in the home side’s win. Alzarri Joseph cannot have had many more difficult days as a cricketer than today. Before play started this morning, it was announced […]
It was another excellent day for West Indies as England were bowled out for 187 in Antigua. Patrick Noone looks at how the North Sound pitch contributed to a compelling day of Test cricket. Cricket pitches are something on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost no-one is an expert. No Test match passes […]
Roston Chase picked up 8-60 as England were thrashed by 381 runs. Patrick Noone looks at how West Indies’ off-spinner delivered an historic performance in Bridgetown. The run chase? That was always going to be impossible. Facing Roston Chase? Well, that turned out to be similarly beyond England. In a way, this defeat was inevitable. […]
18 wickets fell on Day 2 in Bridgetown as West Indies took giant strides towards going 1-0 up in the series. Patrick Noone looks at how the bowling of two local talents propelled the hosts into pole position. In 1994 it was Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, in 2009 it was Jerome Taylor and Sulieman […]
On a day that saw the initiative swing back and forth between the two sides, Patrick Noone looks at how West Indies’ rock shaped the innings for the hosts on Day 1 in Barbados. Cricket is often guilty of misty-eyed nostalgia, of harking back to bygone eras that may or not have actually existed in […]
Ben Jones analyses the key areas where the tourists could steal a march on Tim Paine’s side. Sri Lanka arrive in Australia as afterthoughts. That is not a slight against their hosts, who have had more than enough to think about in the last nine months. It’s not a slight against the media, who are […]
On a day when India lost in surprising fashion to Australia, Ben Jones assesses the impact of the Indian keeper’s controversial knock. Obviously, Rishabh Pant should be in this Indian ODI side. It confounds onlookers from around the world that a player of such outrageous talent, a player so closely aligned with what a 2019 white-ball batsman is supposed to look like, is not deemed worthy of a spot in a side with a […]
As Australia prepare to take on India in the first of three ODIs on Saturday, Patrick Noone looks at how the World Champions have stalled since their 2015 triumph. When Steve Smith worked a ball off a good length from Matt Henry to the square leg boundary, the MCG erupted and Australia were crowned World […]
Ben Jones considers who the Australian selectors should be calling ahead of the Sri Lanka series. In the coming days, Australia are expected to announce their Test squad for the home series against Sri Lanka. As a series in isolation, it shouldn’t represent the toughest challenge for Tim Paine’s side, but the Tests will be as much about finalising Ashes preparation as they will be about victory in Brisbane […]
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