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Cricket’s newest metric
Cricket has embraced data, especially since the advent of modern T20 cricket, both to analyse performances and in many cases to gain a tactical edge over opposition teams. However, one statistic that I have seen missing from mainstream cricket is ‘expected runs’ – that is to say, a measure of how many runs a batter should score off any given ball, on average. The idea is that if a batter has scored more runs than expected, they have played particularly well; and if
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Cricket’s newest metric
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It’s more than just a shirt
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The most efficient language
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The Great British driving test debacle
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A love letter to biscuits
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We need to talk about Kevin again
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