Uma Mahesh
Cricket enthusiast and analyst, delivering data-driven insights and in-depth analysis of the game
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What the Dot Balls Were Really Telling Us (opens the original)
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Our first piece on dot balls this season made a simple point: teams near the top of the table are not just hitting more boundaries; they are simply not letting the ball go dead as often. That held up well, but it left a few threads hanging: whether boundary hitting explains it better than plain dot avoidance; whether the ground a team is playing on is quietly shaping the number; and whether a low dot % really means attacking batting or just means a batter who is good at working ones and twos. So
The Cost of Dot Balls (opens the original)
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