The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Would he shine in Tests? We don’t know because Kieron Pollard has only played ODIs and T20Is

Suddenly this week it was County Championship time again, so everybody had to wrench their inner gearing away from T20 mode (see ball, hit ball) to proper cricket mode (see ball, sometimes leave it alone). But with England looking for two or three batsmen, what people do here may be significant.
Is it a coincidence that the first innings scores in the Division One matches were so low. Lancashire 149 against Hampshire, ...