HOW CRICKET STATS HAVE EMBRACED 21ST CENTURY

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

Statistics and sport have for years gone together like a dog and its tail. Which I suppose makes statisticians those more interested in the tail than the dog.
There are two sports which have always been obsessed with statistics, baseball and cricket, and in which people believe that the figures actually tell you something. Football records never went much beyond the leading goalscorer for the season or the club’s record win.
Football statistics now – thanks to computers, ...