The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

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Let us think about a couple of recent news items. In one, Adil Rashid and Alex Hales have decided to concentrate on whiteball cricket. This is entirely understandable since the Test selectors regard them as a sort of decoration, not really to be taken seriously.
The other is Ravichandran Ashwin’s declaration that he intends to try to bowl wrist spin in the IPL, slightly startling for a man who has taken 311 Test wickets bowling finger spin.
It is not so many years since leg spin ...