Ben Jones
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Head of Insight @CricViz . Analyst with Islamabad United, Pretoria Capitals, Delhi Capitals (WPL & IPL). 'Hitting Against the Spin' co-author.
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Anderson should warn batters before bowling inswingers imo. Spirit of cricket
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If there's been a better wicketless spell in T20 cricket, I don't think I've seen it. Utterly obscene from Naseem Shah
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Kohli's played well, but having KL Rahul at No.5 just makes it so hard to run through this Indian batting. Plenty of teams have a less secure batter at No.5, more of a dynamic hitter - Klaasen, Buttler, Maxwell - but India's more orthodox option gives them real solidity.
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Bumrah is the best seamer in the world by a margin which genuinely terrifies me
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If India had declared after 8 overs of their innings, we'd have an absolute thriller here
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Jonny Bairstow after Tea:
•441•1616•4ˡᵇ6•1ᵇ6•6••44•4•21••3•4•664••1•4144W
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I know what you're thinking, and yes, Truss' tenure did last less than Alastair Cook's combined career minutes batting in FC cricket
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That's the best game of T20 I can remember. Brilliant bowling, brilliant batting. Every bit of possible drama. 90k crowd. Ebb, flow, lurches back and forth. And at the heart of it, a hall of fame piece of magic from Virat Kohli. Remarkable knock, remarkable match.
#T20WorldCup
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One of the best cricket photos I've ever seen
On the Pope dismissal, I did have this remote version showing the bowler (Jasprit Bumrah) too.
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There's 130,000 people in this ground. You could hear Josh Inglis cheer when he caught that
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55-6? Yeah sure, we'll just smack a run-a-ball 150 partnership with a lad on debut and a guy still drunk from Nottingham two weeks ago. England are just vibes
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That's the best ODI innings I've ever seen. Staggering, staggering batting. Double tons are normally a crowning of an ODI career, an individual achievement that stands aside from the game - that was a team knock. A double ton in a second innings is a mad, mad thing. What a man
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Ben Stokes' last ten balls: 6 1 6 6 6 6 6 4 6 6
Yes the ball is red
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SKY is just remarkable. Relentlessly inventive, relentlessly consistent, relentlessly great
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England's men are scheduled to play a Test match on 24% of the days in 2024. If you are awake, at any given moment next year, there is about a 9% chance England's men should be on-field playing a Test match
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Shouldn't be allowed to play both of those shots in the same career, let alone the same over, let alone against Haris Rauf
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That is a phenomenal ball from Jasprit Bumrah. 130kph off break. Play that
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Bhuvi's making the ball talk; Arshdeep's making it Singh
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KL Rahul has just accidentally hit Cummins inside out for six over cover
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When we look back on this World Cup, Bangladesh beating Afghanistan is going to look properly bonkers
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Quite a lot of me thinks that SKY is the best T20 batter in the world
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Winners of IPL, PSL, BBL, BPL, LPL, CPL, SA20, Hundred - straight knockout, play it in a week. If you play for two teams involved, play for your home team. If no home team (would be just Pretorius and McCoy this year) then most appearances. Winning nation hosts next year. Do it
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No batter in the world makes me go "how on earth has he done that" more often than Suryakumar Yadav
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Kane Williamson's Total Batting Impact this season is now -111, the worst for any batter in the history of the IPL.
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India are clearly the best Test team of this generation. The twin wins in Australia is historic. But it felt like 12 months ago they had proper all-time greatness in their grasp - the WTC final, the draw in England, and the loss in SA represent a massive missed opportunity.
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Genuinely no exaggeration to say Sri Lanka could have been six down in two overs. Insane bowling
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Most reverse sweeps v spinners by England Test batters:
Joe Root - 92
Ben Stokes - 77
Jos Buttler - 73
James Anderson - 61
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A return to one of my favourite stats: Lyon bowling to Pujara (1293 balls) is the most common delivery of the last 70 years of Test cricket, and the third most ever
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Kane Williamson's Total Match Impact in
#IPL2022
is -85, the lowest for any player in the tournament.
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Highest Average Batting Impact in
#IPL2022
:
Liam Livingstone +8.8
Andre Russell +8.5
Tim David +7.7
Quick, Mumbai, drop that man, he's not delivered in his two games...
What a superstar.
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Honestly starting to think Mumbai Indians dropping the world's most in-form T20 batter after two games was an error
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Men in ODI history to have played 50+ matches with an average over 40 and a strike rate over 100:
Jonny Bairstow
Jos Buttler
Jason Roy
AB de Villiers
David Miller
Kedar Jadhav
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One day Livingstone will show he can do this in the IPL and it's going to be brilliant
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Jitesh Sharma has been, by a million miles, the bargain of the 2022 auction
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To bat like this in a World Cup semi-final is the ultimate vindication of England's approach. Bilateral cricket is one thing; Jos Buttler and Alex Hales playing like this with everything on the line is simply exceptional. One of the most impressive England wins I can remember.
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Barely needs saying at this point but absolutely baffling that Sanju Samson isn't in the India T20 squad
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Rare to be genuinely shocked by sports news these days. Properly done by Stuart Broad's retirement - absolute icon. Stokes pushes him close but the most charismatic England cricketer I've seen
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The weather forecast for Leeds is extremely against the Spirit of Cricket
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If Maxi doesn't do a lap of honour on a golf cart then we're missing out
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Sixes hit by Ben Stokes in:
The last two hours against Worcestershire - 15
Four years with Rajasthan Royals - 17
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Knockout cricket, give me more of it, give me all of it, all the damn time
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Rishabh's commitment to literally never making boring runs and still averaging a flick under 45 in Test cricket is a) objectively an amazing demonstration of skill but also b) hilarious
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Australia - not locking in Tim David for the World Cup would be like if England had turned down Jofra Archer going into 2019. It's not particularly tricky. Pick him.
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Test teams to chase 250+ four times in a year:
England in 2022
That's it
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Chris Jordan is the only "he doesn't drop many" fielder who genuinely doesn't drop many
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Joe Root has more than 10k Test runs - 25% of them have come since the start of last year.
A great of Test batting at the very very top of his game
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England's last two innings:
299-5 in 50 overs
264-6 in 49 overs
If you're that good at ODI cricket, guess you might as well just play it all the time
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Since the start of 2018, Jasprit Bumrah's rank for:
Test Bowling Average 🥇
CricViz ODI Bowling Impact 🥇
CricViz T20 Bowling Impact🥇
A phenomenon.
#INDvENG
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If Tim David was the Next Big Thing, and Dewald Brevis was the next Next Big Thing, does that make Tristan Stubbs the next next Next Big Thing?
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My astute tactical analysis of the fifth Test is that there's a restaurant in Dharamsala called 'German Bakery' which is neither German nor a bakery, and it's excellent
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I've seen every T20 World Cup, and this is clearly the best of them - but have any ODI World Cups been better?
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That last six was a time machine back to 2018. KL Rahul, I just can't quit you
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Two lowest Total Match Impact in
#IPL2022
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Number of bowlers with a positive Bowling Impact in the Super 12s this
#T20WorldCup
(min four overs):
🇵🇰 - 5
🇿🇦 - 4
🇱🇰 - 4
🇮🇳 - 4
🇿🇼 - 3
🇳🇿 - 3
🇳🇱 - 3
🏴🏴 - 3
🇧🇩 - 3
🍀- 2
🇦🇫 - 2
🇦🇺 - 1
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Test Batting Average since Bairstow's recall in Australia:
Joe Root - 49.40
Jonny Bairstow - 47.25
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Always sound like a massive shill when you gush over the IPL, but holy hell how good was that game
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Snow falling outside, early morning alarm, free to air, lockdown, the complete absence of pre series optimism, cult heroes at the heart of it - the series result took the gloss off (and plenty more) but maybe England's best away win I've watched
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Don't mean to hype England fans, but their qualification chances go from 15% to 16% with this Afghanistan win. They'll be dancing on the streets of WinViz, etc
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Today truly is a brilliant example of why, above all else, you have to pick your best keeper
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This Asia Cup just cannot stop delivering unreal matches
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Suryakumar Yadav has a Total Batting Impact of +382 in T20Is this year. That's the most for any batter in any calendar year, and miles ahead of the next best (Rizwan's 2021: +249). Strong case for it being the best run of T20I form we've ever seen
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The good news? It's not raining in Adelaide.
The bad news? It's hailing in Adelaide.
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Jonny Bairstow's playing 100 Tests and there's nothing you can do about it
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Suryakumar Yadav has an average T20 Batting Impact of +6.5 since the start of 2019, the highest of any player worldwide (min 40 innings)
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All the six overground lines should have been named after different deliveries of Flintoff's over to Ponting
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We've been robbed of some proper shenanigans if Shakib had been skipper or bowling at the end then
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Sam Billings is becoming England's mate they always ring in a crisis after a breakup, but forget as soon as they get into a new relationship
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English white ball in disarray. You look at domestic cricket, and what are they playing? In the middle of a heatwave and height of summer? The Championship.
How are the List A players out of the team supposed to get form when the white ball game is being pushed to the margins?
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Liam Livingstone ends
#IPL2022
averaging 36, striking at 182, with an Average Batting Impact of +10.
That's the highest ABI for any English batter in an IPL season, and the 10th highest for any player.
No team success, but that ends a remarkable 12 months for Livingstone.
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Shubman Gill ends
#IPL2023
with a total CricViz Batting Impact of +213.
That's the most for any batter, in any T20 season, in any T20 competition, ever.
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Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell have been batting together for 23% of this entire Test series
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Still get the shakes remembering that Sunrisers had Warner and Rashid and just....let them go
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SA20 *might* be the most fun league. Varied venues, not too many teams, packed houses, outstanding and mixed domestic talent blended with overseas stars - it's a perfect example of how to make this model work, imo
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England score 498, smash their own world record, and yet they'll still be a bit pissed off. Cricket is never good
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England losing Morgan and Stokes 12 months before an ODI World Cup in India, places up for grabs - best time to be an English lefty since Atlee, you'd say
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Ravichandran Ashwin's Expected Average* in 🏴 Tests is 29.2, the lowest for any spinner to visit England in the last decade. Bowled on Day 1 of three matches, with an Expected Average of 26.3.
#WTCFinal
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It is quite funny how "if Sanju wants to play for India" he seemingly has to play the ultra-aggressive, high-variance role which India desperately needs, but with the consistency of a conservative anchor.
Just to be perfect mate, and you're in
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As a partnership, Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell faced 23% of the deliveries in this
#ENGvNZ
tour, the most for any pair in a series (min 3 matches) in the history of Test cricket
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If this doesn't finish with Root bowling with floodlights at 10pm, taking the tenth wicket after a disputed drop from Bairstow turns into a stumping after Carey wanders out of his ground, with England having just changed the ball, then the last 46 days have been for nothing
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You could watch a lot of T20 before you see a better spell of swing bowling than Bhuvi's tonight
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From the 2015 World Cup final to the 2019 World Cup final, Ben Stokes averaged 50.00 with the bat (striking at 95), and took 50 wickets @ 44. For all his maverick work in Tests and (occasional) bursts of T20 brilliance, ODIs were basically his best format.
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Liam Livingstone's Total Match Impact this IPL now +90, third best behind Buttler and Russell.
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Cummins and Hazlewood are superior bowlers, but Mitchell Starc is the most watchable quick in Test cricket
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That is an absolutely staggering ton from Klaasen. Bloke can barely walk and he's slamming 150kph bowling around the ground. About as close to the perfect white ball batter as there is in the world right now.
#CWC2023
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I love that Harry Brook the batter is this ultra-modern, white ball inspired freak, and Harry Brook the bowler is 1963
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13 bat first wins this World Cup, had 16 in the whole of last year
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Since we have session data (2006), the three fastest scoring rates for lads scoring 90+ runs in a session are:
Jonny Bairstow at Trent Bridge 2022 - 12.7rpo
Brendon McCullum at Christchurch 2016 - 10.6rpo
Ben Stokes at Cape Town 2016 - 10.5rpo
Folks, this could be a fun era
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Think this WC is a great example of why teams should be encouraged to create genuinely distinct home venues in leagues. Fans don't want 180 v 180 every game, the same conditions. Pace and bounce here, low spinners there - it brings out the best in the players, and the format
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Roll the favourites for 240, chase it with 40 odd balls to spare, in front of 100k+ opposition fans, with more yellow shirts on the field than in the stands - a mauling.
An outstanding performance from Australia, a group of guys with a seriously impressive trophy cabinet
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Since that night in 2015, England's record in ICC mens white-ball events:
Finalists in '16
Semi-finalists in '17
Winners in '19
Semi-finalists in '21
Winners in '22
Turnaround has been spoken of many times, but it's an achievement of which English cricket should be hugely proud
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One of the best knocks you'll see. Power is as skillful as anything else, but something magic about watching a Test innings - gorgeous, orthodox, controlled - but with all the dots sucked out. Pace, spin; offside, legside. Spectacular from Suryakumar Yadav. As good as it gets.
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Whatever you think about his continued selection, that knock is *exactly* why England have kept faith with Zak Crawley.
Not many players in this country could have played that knock against this attack.
Few believed Crawley could - but England did.
#Ashes
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