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Delhi Capitals are the first team in IPL history to do the double over Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in the same IPL season.
#IPL2021
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According to our Wicket Probability model, the ball that dismissed Joe Root was the most dangerous ball of the Test so far.
#ENGvIND
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Cheteshwar Pujara was hit on the body or the helmet 14 times across the four match series - that is a record for body blows received in a single series by a batsman since such things were recorded in 2006.
#AUSvIND
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Australia's 33-year unbeaten Test record at the Gabba comes to an end. At one stage today, India had just a 1% chance of pulling off this unbelievable chase - and yet, here we are. A quite remarkable Test match, and series.
#AUSvIND
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According to our Expected Wickets model - which looks at the ball tracking data of balls bowled - this five over spell from Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah is the best new ball burst in ODIs since 2015.
#CWC2023
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Rory Burns has now made six ducks in Test cricket this year. Only Jasprit Bumrah has more.
#Ashes
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India after taking a 100+ run lead at the end of the first innings in a Home Test
Instances - 106
Won - 70
Drawn - 35
Lost - 1 (vs England, Hyderabad 2024)
#INDvENG
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According to our Expected Wickets model, the deliveries Dom Bess has bowled today would, on average, take 0.18 wickets.
#SLvEng
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Jasprit Bumrah's 10 no-balls is the most in a day of Test cricket for more than a decade.
#ENGvIND
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Test ducks this year for Burns & Sibley: 9
Test ducks in 161 games for Alastair Cook: 9
#ENGvIND
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False Shots Played - Today
Virat Kohli - 12%
R Ashwin - 24%
Rohit Sharma - 25%
Rishabh Pant - 36%
Axar Patel - 39%
C Pujara - 40%
Ajinkya Rahane - 40%
Kohli has played brilliantly on this tough pitch today. Measured & playing half as many false shots as the next best.
#INDvENG
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Washington Sundar is just a proper Test batsman. His false shot percentage since arriving in the side is 12.5%, comfortably below the Test average of 15%. He's done it while attacking 25% of the time - slightly above the average for all players. All very accomplished.
#INDvENG
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According to CricViz's Fielding metrics, Ravindra Jadeja has saved 41 runs in this World Cup - nobody has saved more.
#CWC19
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Rishabh Pant's false shot percentage in this innings is now 8.7% - that is the lowest false shot percentage for any batsman in any innings (min 50 balls faced) this series (there are 31 such innings). He's doing this while scoring at 5.17 runs per over.
#SAvIND
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In 2021, England openers have made 13 ducks.
That's the most for any team, in any year, in the history of Test cricket.
#Ashes
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Cheteshwar Pujara has now faced more deliveries in Tests in Australia (2557) than Virat Kohli (2544), in two fewer matches.
#AUSvIND
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Joe Root has played 27 Test innings this year - he's arrived at the crease in the first 10 overs in 14 of those innings.
#Ashes
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Rishabh Pant has now dropped 11 catches in Test cricket - since the start of 2018, no keeper has dropped more.
#AUSvIND
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Jasprit Bumrah has bowled 31 death overs in ODIs this year. Only two of them have seen him concede more than 10 runs.
#CWC19
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Lowest Test bowling average in Australia this century (min 30 wickets): Jasprit Bumrah, 21.25
Highest Test average by a visiting batsman in Australia this century (min 12 inns): Rishabh Pant, 63.20
#AUSvIND
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Since control has been measured (2006-present), there have been 69 scores of 50+ by Indians in Australia. Shubman Gill's false shot percentage of just 3% in his half century was the second most controlled, behind only Virat Kohli at Adelaide in 2014 (1.1%).
#AUSvIND
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Virat Kohli has now played 47 false shots against James Anderson without being dismissed. Typically, 14 false shots leads to a dismissal.
#ENGvIND
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New Zealand are averaging 2.24 degrees of swing in this innings. That's the most they have recorded in any Test innings since records began in 2006.
#WTCFinal
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Average line (at stumps) of Virat Kohli's dismissals v pace by year:
2019: middle stump
2020: 9cm outside off stump
2021: 26cm outside off stump
#SAvIND
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Virat Kohli Test batting average by pitch difficulty
Easy: 84
Hard: 39
Pitch difficulty is calculated using PitchViz - a model based on ball tracking data.
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Highest batting averages for India since Rishabh Pant's debut (min 10 innings)
Rohit Sharma - 60.62
Ravindra Jadeja - 58.30
Virat Kohli - 51.30
Rishabh Pant - 45.92
#INDvENG
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Rohit Sharma averages 64.36 when opening the batting in Test cricket.
That's the highest average for any opener in Test history (min 20 innings).
#ENGvIND
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We've had a lot of questions asking who are the world's best Test bowlers by Expected Average (xAve) - which uses ball tracking.
Best xAve since 2016 (min 50 wickets)
Bumrah 🇮🇳 23.7
Ishant 🇮🇳 25.1
Shami 🇮🇳 25.6
Anderson 🏴 25.8
Philander 🇿🇦 26.6
#AUSvIND
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Of the 1096 Test Hundreds with ball tracking available, none have been tougher than Aiden Markram's at Newlands according to our Expected Runs and Wickets model, with an Expected Average of just 16.6 during his innings.
#SAvIND
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James Anderson has played more reverse sweeps against spinners, in Test cricket, than Kevin Pietersen.
#ENGvWI
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Washington Sundar's figures of 31-6-89-3 are the best by a visiting spinner in the first innings at the Gabba since Ashely Giles' 4-101 back in 2002.
#AUSvIND
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England have made 10 century partnerships in Tests this year. Joe Root has been involved in 8 of them.
#Ashes
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Harshal Patel now has more wickets in this year's IPL than he took in the last five IPLs combined.
#IPL2021
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20 runs from Mitchell Starc's 12th over - that's the most expensive over he's bowled in Test cricket.
#AUSvIND
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Test batting average against James Anderson:
Steve Smith - 54.00
Virat Kohli - 47.20
Kane Williamson - 19.00
#ENGvNZ
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No team in the history of Test cricket have scored as many runs in a fourth innings, at a quicker rate, than England have managed today.
#ENGvNZ
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Since Jasprit Bumrah made his Test debut he has taken six wickets with yorkers - the most of any Test bowler in the world. India's spearhead bringing white ball skills to the five day game.
#SAvIND
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Rishabh Pant has played seven Tests in Australia - no Indian wicketkeeper has more Test runs in the country than him.
#AUSvIND
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The ball from Parkinson to dismiss Imam-ul-Haq spun 12.1°
No ball bowled by an English spinner, in England, to take a wicket in ODI's in the ball tracking era, has ever spun more.
#ENGvPAK
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Not one Test century in the CricViz database has a higher attacking shot percentage *and* a lower false shot percentage than Jonny Bairstow's today.
#ENGvNZ
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Bumrah's ball to dismiss Livingstone swung 3.2°, more than any other wicket-taking delivery he's bowled in ODI cricket.
#EngvInd
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Harry Brook has attacked more than half of the balls he's faced in Test cricket - that's the most of anyone since shot type records began in 2006 (min 800 runs).
While doing that, his false shot percentage is lower than Steve Smith, AB de Villiers, & Cheteshwar Pujara.
#NZvENG
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Ben Stokes' England are the first Test team to successfully chase 250+ three times in a single series.
#ENGvNZ
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Washington Sundar has been rock solid. He's played just 10% false shots in his 35* (80), the same as Marnus Labuschagne, Ajinkya Rahane, and Rohit Sharma in this Test.
#AUSvIND
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According to our Expected Wickets model, the deliveries that Australia bowled on Day 5 at Brisbane would, on average, take 280-8. India outstripped both the xRuns, and xWickets, to complete a remarkable victory.
#AUSvIND
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Joe Root and Dawid Malan are the only England players to have played in both Tests this series and not dropped a catch.
#Ashes
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Mohammed Siraj's Expected Wickets total in Test cricket is 23 - since he debuted, only Bumrah has a higher xWicket total.
#ENGvIND
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According to PitchViz, this is the flattest Day 4 pitch we've seen in any Test worldwide since the start of 2018.
#ENGvIND
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Total Test Centuries:
Joe Root - 28
Steve Smith - 27
Virat Kohli - 27
Kane Williamson - 24
#ENGvIND
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The ball Jasprit Bumrah bowled to dismiss Bairstow swung 2.3°
That's the second highest amount of swing for any ball he has bowled in this match.
#ENGvIND
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Rishabh Pant's false shot percentage in this series so far is 9.5%, the lowest of any batsman.
#AUSvIND
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If Joe Root had only scored runs with sweep shots this year, he would still be the 12th highest runscorer in Tests in 2021.
#IndvEng
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Shardul Thakur is only the fourth Indian No.8 to make two 50+ scores in the same Test.
#ENGvIND
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Anrich Nortje's average speed of 149kph (92mph) in the 25th over of this innings is the quickest over England have faced at home in the past decade in Test cricket.
#ENGvSA
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That was James Anderson's 58th reverse sweep in Test cricket, moving him into the top 10 players of that shot in the data era (2006-present).
#ENGvIND
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The scoring rate in this Test (2.27rpo) is the slowest for any Test in the UK this century.
#WTCFinal
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There have only ever been five centuries scored in ODI cricket with a false shot percentage of under 2%.
Three of them belong to AB de Villiers.
Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam hold the other two.
#ENGvPAK
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India have found 3.1° of swing in the first two overs of this match.
No team opening the bowling with two fast bowlers has ever found more swing in a T20I
#ENGvIND
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Stumpings in Test Cricket
Ben Foakes (6 Tests)
Made - 5
Missed - 1
Jos Buttler (50 Tests)
Made - 1
Missed - 5
#INDvENG
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According to our Expected Wickets model, Jasprit Bumrah's spell today generated the most expected wickets of any bowler ever in a P1 spell in ODI cricket.
India's P1 bowling also included six deliveries with more than a 10% chance of taking a wicket - the highest ever in P1.
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In First Class cricket, Shubman Gill averages 168 against spin, more than any player to have faced 1000+ balls in our database.
#IndvEng
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Since the start of 2018, the only Indian batsman who averages more in Test cricket than Ravindra Jadeja, is Rohit Sharma.
#AUSvIND
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Last 10 Test centuries from West Indies openers have come from:
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kraigg Brathwaite
#WIvENG
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Most 200+ ball innings by visiting batsmen in Australia this century:
Cheteshwar Pujara - 6
Virat Kohli - 5
Alastair Cook - 5
#AUSvIND
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Not one of Kyle Jamieson's deliveries to Virat Kohli in this innings would have hit the stumps.
#WTCFinal
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Virat Kohli has now scored 26 hundreds while chasing in ODIs. If you consider only his hundreds in chases compared to overall hundreds for all other players, he'd still be in 5th place in ODI history.
Tendulkar: 49
Ponting: 30
Jayasuriya: 28
Amla/Rohit: 27
Kohli: 26*
#WIvIND
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Jack Leach is averaging 42.66 with the bat this summer. Only Ben Stokes (53.42) is averaging more for England this summer.
#Ashes
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Pat Cummins bowls such a wonderful line in Test cricket. Across his career, just 11% of his deliveries have been wide outside the off stump - that's the lowest figure for any Test seamer (min 1000 balls) since records began in 2006.
#AUSvIND
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In Tests this year, a wicket falls every 52.6 balls. That's the lowest figure since 1910.
#Ashes
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Rishabh Pant has faced 30 balls from Jack Leach - he's hit 10 of them for boundaries, and six of them for six.
#INDvENG
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Rishabh Pant was both the fastest scorer (4.93rpo) and the most controlled batsman (11% false shots) on Day 5 of this Test.
#AUSvIND
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Rishabh Pant's false shot percentage in this Test of 10.7% is the lowest of all players in this match (minimum 10 balls faced). This control has come despite scoring at a run rate of 4.07 runs per over - the fastest of any batsman. Controlled aggression.
#SAvIND
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Kusal Perera v SA, Durban - 2019
Brian Lara - v Aus, Barbados - 1999
Both left-handers
Both batting at number five
Both chasing 300+ against exceptional attacks
Both win by one wicket
Both finish 153 not out
Fourth innings magic; nearly exactly 20 years apart.
#SAvSL
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Since he debuted in Test cricket, nobody has made more 90+ scores than Rishabh Pant.
#INDvENG
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This is only the second time India have won two Tests on a tour of England, and the first time since 1986.
#ENGvIND
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40* (200) for Pujara.
Just 5 knocks since 2000 have seen a player reach 200 balls on fewer runs.
22 - Amla v Ind, Delhi 2015
26 - De Villiers v Ind, Delhi 2015
29 - De Villiers v Aus Adelaide 2012
34 - De Villiers v Aus Cape Town 2014
37 - Javeed Omar v Zim Dhaka 2005
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Mohammed Siraj's 5-73 are the second best figures ever recorded by an Indian seamer at the Gabba, behind Madan Lal's 5-72 in 1977.
#AUSvIND
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Series batting stats
Run Rate
🇦🇺 3.05
🇮🇳 2.79
Balls Per Wicket
🇮🇳 65.3
🇦🇺 57.5
India scored more slowly than Australia but kept them in the field 13 overs longer each innings. In a four match series crammed into four weeks this took its toll on Australia's attack.
#AUSvIND
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Yorkers in the
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database (all formats & since 2006)
Lasith Malinga 2034
Mitchell Starc 1217
Dwayne Bravo 1118
Tim Southee 976
Trent Boult 782
🇱🇰
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Test catch success percentage for wicketkeepers last two years:
Jos Buttler - 89%
Global Average - 86%
#Ashes
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Having batted for 491 minutes, Babar Azam's knock is now the longest ever by a Pakistan batsman in the fourth innings of a Test.
It is the fourth longest innings by any player in the fourth innings of a Test.
#PAKvAUS
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Ravichandran Ashwin remains unselected. Ashwin took 7-126 for Surrey against Somerset at the Oval earlier this summer, and was the leading wicket-taker in the India v England series earlier this year.
#ENGvIND
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Cummins' yorker to dismiss Wood swung by an enormous 3.93° - only seven balls in this entire series has swung more. Freakish delivery by a quite frankly freakish bowler.
#Ashes
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Yesterday Virat Kohli played one of the great T20 innings. Here is how our Match Impact model assessed it as it unfolded. He absorbed early pressure before kicking into life in the middle & exploding at the death.
#T20WorldCup
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