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Patrick Noone, Freddie Wilde and Ben Jones take a look at the key themes of the week in the IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders This Week – Played 2, Won 2 (v RCB & v RR) KKR will face tougher tests than the two teams they came up against in week two, but the ruthless nature […]
Freddie Wilde introduces CricViz’s new Batting Profile analysis based on three new metrics: Attack, Timing and Power. What makes a batsman the player he is? It is a broad and expansive question – one that incorporates multifarious traits and characteristics. However, we can get closer to answering it by using detailed data analysis which breaks […]
Ben Jones tries to find the weakness of the West Indian who’s lighting up the IPL. Andre Russell is a poster boy. His game, his aesthetic, everything about the man from the moment he steps into public view, is what T20 is supposed to be about. Vibrant, skillful, powerful and fun. Specifically, Russell has always […]
Patrick Noone, Freddie Wilde and Ben Jones pick out the key themes after an eventful first week of IPL 2019. Chennai Super Kings This Week – Played 3, Won 3 (v RCB, v DC & v RR) The defending champions have got off to a perfect start as they chase a record fourth IPL triumph, […]
Ben Jones analyses the return to form of the Australian opener. There’s a funny difference in mentality between the cricketing cultures of England and Australia. Eoin Morgan’s England side haven’t lost an ODI series at home since 2015, and have all but swept the board over the last two years, but the default position for […]
Winner: Sunrisers Hyderabad Just look at that bowling attack. There are so many options, so much variety and skill in that unit, it’s tough to imagine any surface or batting order that could be confident of taking Sunrisers down. In a tournament like the IPL where momentum can only get you so far (because of […]
Freddie Wilde’s IPL Predictions. Winner: MI Last season Mumbai played a lot better than their fifth placed finish suggests. They were unfortunate to be on the wrong end of a handful of close matches. A bit of luck here and there and they could comfortably have made the Play Offs. This season Mumbai have one […]
Ben Jones previews Sunrisers Hyderabad ahead of the 2019 IPL season. Last Season: Runners-up In 2018, Sunrisers had arguably the most distinctive style of any team in the competition. A bowling-heavy strategy was marked most clearly by their extraordinary defence of 118 against Mumbai Indians, among the best performances in T20 history. Across the competition […]
Winner: Kolkata Knight Riders KKR look to have all bases covered: an aggressive top order of Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine and Robin Uthappa, supplemented by the emerging talents of Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill in the middle order. Dinesh Karthik, the captain and wicket-keeper is a safe pair of hands in every respect and the […]
Patrick Noone previews Chennai Super Kings. Last season: Winners Chennai secured their third IPL triumph with a convincing 8-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mumbai. It was their first season back after a two-year ban and the men in yellow hit the ground running, winning five of their first six matches before ultimately finishing second […]
Patrick Noone previews Kolkata Knight Riders. Last season: 3rd Three wins in their last three matches propelled the Knight Riders into the top three, before defeating Rajasthan Royals in the first Qualifier. They fell short in the first Qualifier, losing to eventual runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad. The aggressive opening pair of Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine […]
Ben Jones previews Rajasthan Royals ahead of IPL 2019. Last season: 4th Last year was defined by the work of Jos Buttler. His promotion to the top of the order was an enormous turning point in the season, as his 428 runs at 9.95rpo as an opener (and an average of 107) almost single-handedly dragged […]
Freddie Wilde previews the Mumbai Indians.
Freddie Wilde previews the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Last season: 6th A late run of victories took RCB to the brink of qualification and a win in their last match of the season against Rajasthan Royals would have been enough to finish in the top four. However, they lost and ultimately finished sixth on Net Run […]
Ben Jones previews Kings XI Punjab. Last season: 7th 2018 was a year to forget for Kings XI. Whilst KL Rahul and AJ Tye had serious personal success, the rest of the team were not able to back up their good work, as they slumped to second bottom on the ladder following a bright start […]
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 […]
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