Archive - Cricket and Stuff

A year of Cricket and Stuff

Some thoughts, and what you might have missed

Aug 5 •

July 2025

False friends are worse than bitter enemies

Using never-before-seen weather data to test the popular assumption that dew is the best friend of the chase

Jul 30 •

May 2025

Love as acceptance

The man whom Test cricket loved back loves it enough to let it go

May 15 •

What I will miss about undergrad

A wistful remembrence of a college journey that was full of meaning

May 10 •

March 2025

How I went from being socially anxious to master conversationalist in a year

Ten pointers for the socially awkward

Mar 31 •

Speed variation is not sufficient

But it's a necessary tool for elite spinners

Mar 9 •

February 2025

Playing the devil's advocate

Feb 23 •

The numbers underlying the big runs in the WPL

Feb 21 •

The end of an era

The curtain is slowly falling on a golden generation

Feb 7 •

January 2025

Bad balls beget bad balls

Using ball-tracking data to investigate a common assumption: are elite bowlers prone to overcompensation?

Jan 20 •

It's all I know

A short reflection on the sadness of Kohli's Test decline

Jan 4 •

December 2024

Going down to go up

Why the shimmy down the wicket has been popular in Melbourne and Centurion

Dec 28, 2024 •

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