The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

As the Champions’ Trophy moves towards its conclusion – hopefully through the playing of cricket rather than the weather – something else is happening across the Atlantic Ocean.
West Indies, humiliatingly excluded from the main event, are playing at home against Afghanistan. West Indies won all three T20 matches, but it finished one-all in the ODI series.
In the T20s Rashid Khan, the Afghan leg-spinner, had an economy rate of 4.54 runs per over, the best on view.
Then in the first ODI he took 7-18,...