Asian Cricket
Asian CricketEight Years After Sandpapergate: Did Australia's Investigation Reveal the Whole Truth?2026-11-11The image from Cape Town in March 2026 remains one of the most recognizable...
Asian CricketFull Accountability, Zero Control: Shastri's 52 Months and the Arithmetic Trap of the India Coaching Job2026-11-11Ian Smith asked the simple question on Sky Sport: what is it actually like to...
Asian CricketA 2-0 Lead Is Not Enough Under Hamilton's Cloud: India's Real Deficit Is Batting, Not Bowling2026-11-11Six innings. 105 runs. An average of 17.5. Rohit Sharma (0 and 23), Shubman...
Asian CricketIndia's Real Test in Hamilton Is the Batting, Not the Bowling2026-11-11I remember that evening in Russia in 2026, rewinding Iceland against Argentin...
Asian CricketSandpapergate: The Ball Was Logged, the People Weren't2026-11-10Hook March 24, 2026. Newlands, Cape Town. Day three of the third Test. I had...
Asian CricketCricket Analysis Without Evidence: Verdict Deferred as Match, Teams and Players Remain Unidentified2026-11-10No Verdict Before Evidence: Accounting for Missing Information in Cricket...
RkTeamsPPtsRating
1Australia273411126
2South Africa192256119
3New Zealand222336106
3New Zealand222336106
4India293042105
5England363658102
6Bangladesh24187878
6Bangladesh24187878
RkTeamsPPtsRating
1India333841116
2New Zealand353809109
2New Zealand353809109
3Australia323304103
4South Africa313192103
5Pakistan323215100
6Sri Lanka36347096
6Sri Lanka36347096
RkTeamsPPtsRating
1England4111021269
2India6417201269
3Australia389868260
4New Zealand5012348247
4New Zealand5012348247
5South Africa5312881243
6Pakistan5713679240
7West Indies5613079234
The Empty Ledger: When a Cricket Data Pipeline Returns NothingLast week, at half past eleven at night, I opened a spreadsheet in my London...
Eight Years After Sandpapergate: Did Australia's Investigation Reveal the Whole Truth?The image from Cape Town in March 2026 remains one of the most recognizable...
Eight Columns, Zero Evidence: The 'Analysis' That Cannot Prove Its Own ExistenceA file landed on my desk last week. Eight chapters. Every headline promised...
The Two-Match Arithmetic: What the Headlines Missed Before Bangladesh's First Test at the WanderersI opened the notebook before the first whistle and closed it after the market...
A Draw Built on Three 500-Plus Innings: Zimbabwe's Record, Zia-ur-Rehman's 96-Over Burden and the Need for VerificationSome Test matches end with the sound of a final wicket. Others end in a silen...
Zero Analysis, Full Honesty: A New Verification Standard for Cricket CoverageThe document that landed on my Melbourne desk on Monday morning had exactly o...
Before Cricket Analysis: The Risks of Drawing Conclusions from Incomplete SourcesThe supplied material identifies no match, team, player, competition,...
Full Accountability, Zero Control: Shastri's 52 Months and the Arithmetic Trap of the India Coaching JobIan Smith asked the simple question on Sky Sport: what is it actually like to...
A 2-0 Lead Is Not Enough Under Hamilton's Cloud: India's Real Deficit Is Batting, Not BowlingSix innings. 105 runs. An average of 17.5. Rohit Sharma (0 and 23), Shubman...
Not Cricket but Steel Tax Policy: A Major Category Mismatch in an FBR ReportA report on Pakistan’s valuation of iron and steel scrap has been assigned th...
The Trap of Sourceless Analysis: Why an Empty Data Set Cannot Support Cricket JudgmentsIn Mymensingh I built a habit over nine years: before writing on any match, I...
India's Real Test in Hamilton Is the Batting, Not the BowlingI remember that evening in Russia in 2026, rewinding Iceland against Argentin...
Sandpapergate: The Ball Was Logged, the People Weren'tHook March 24, 2026. Newlands, Cape Town. Day three of the third Test. I had...
Cricket Analysis Without Evidence: Verdict Deferred as Match, Teams and Players Remain UnidentifiedNo Verdict Before Evidence: Accounting for Missing Information in Cricket...
No Cricket Information Available for Analysis; Source Recovery AdvisedThe supplied analysis contains no information about a match, team, player,...
Starc’s Unchanged Account Reopens the Debate Over Personal Memory and Team Responsibility in SandpapergateThe old Sandpapergate controversy has returned to Australian cricket, althoug...
When the Evidence Isn't There: Rewinding an Empty Analytical FrameIt started with a single frame in Rajshahi, and I have been rewinding ever...
Shastri’s Coaching Era: Historic Wins in Australia, but No Global TitleRavi Shastri’s time as India head coach is best read through two pictures kep...
The Map Inside the 206: What Zimbabwe's Draw in Sharjah Actually Proved, and What It Didn'tHook: The Number on the Board and the Number That Never Existed on the Pitch...
Gold Reaches Rs432,336 in Pakistan: Could Currency Pressures Affect the Cricket Economy?Pakistan cricket's financial future is usually discussed through the Pakistan...
Rawalpindi, Day Two: The 31.2 Overs Hidden Inside 390-6Before closing the scorecard at the end of the session, I sat looking at one...
The First Eleven: 189 Caps, Three Names, and the Inside Story of a BoardOn 10 November 2026, in Dhaka, Bangladesh played their first Test match. Read...
Missing Evidence in Cricket Analysis: Why Verification Must Come FirstThe Most Important Question in Cricket Analysis Begins With Missing Evidence ...