The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Five out of five: Joe Root

Much chatter of course about how much better England were than India. Was it really a 4-1 difference?
One point – surprisingly little mentioned – is that Joe Root won the toss five times out of five. In the end he made one bad choice – putting India in at Trent Bridge – but apart from that he got things right. The odds are 1 in 32, and Root is the 11th captain to win five out of five (of course there are more examples in three or four Test series, where it is muc...