Case Study - Ajaz Patel - Classical SLA against right-handers - The high handedness advantage is driven by poor execution against left-handers - Lots of width

Case Study - Ben Stokes - Tries to maximize advantage against favorable matchup (SLA); conservative against unfavorable matchup (OS)

Case Study - Ravi Jadeja - Unconventional angles against unfavorable matchup (LHB) drives low handedness delta - More deliveries from around the wkt and fewer arm balls than other SLAs to LHB

Case Study - Joe Root - Backs himself and approaches both types of spinners similarly; unlike the average right-handed batter - Lots of sweeping...lots! - Lack of handedness advantage is driven by how good he is and by luck - a lot more dismissals per false shot against OS

Case Study - Rishabh Pant - Strong handedness advantage - Relatively conservative against the unfavorable matchup, but picks the right balls to attack

BEST #CRICKET STORIES OF THE WEEK: 📊 Amol Desai has an unbelievable deep dive into ‘handedness’ matchups. It’s gone under the radar, but this is the level of analysis needed to be a professional analyst. All stories at bestofcricket.substack.com/p/roundup-high…

CricViz built a Skill Scale for the #ICCT20WORLDCUP . Everyone saw the numbers. Nobody knew what they meant. So I built my own. Where every number has a cricket answer. Thread 👇

Class, control, and spin. Ravichandran Ashwin is a Unicorn 🦄✨ Who guessed it? Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4bBTbzM #SFUnicorns #GoCorns Ashwin 🇮🇳

Some more rigorous corroboration for something that I wrote about recently at medium.com/boundary-line/…

1/ Follow-up work to the excellent analysis by @johanfourie and Krige Siebrits - the left-right batting partnership advantage is a myth at every level, in every league, against every bowler type medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…

The Impact Player League: a rule that adds 50 runs per match and changes absolutely nothing competitively. Toss winner win rate: 51.8% before, 51.8% after. The real casualty? The all-rounder. Analysis of the IPL rule: medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…

Five bowlers in 18 years. That’s how many pass the scrutiny of a statistical test for elite death bowling. Elite bowlers don't bowl more yorkers. They just miss fewer. The yorker: economy 5.4. The full toss: 12.4. Six inches, a world apart. Read more: medium.com/@vishalmisra/f…

Has anyone here figured out how Krunal Pandya indicates the upcoming bouncer to the keeper?

Every IPL batter who has faced 30 balls is ~85% more likely to get out on his next ball than on his first. Not less. More. We tested it on 281,256 IPL deliveries. Then we ran Kohli as a special case. He stands out, but in a surprising way. Read more: medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…

Rob Barron There’s more where that came from 1 Pick Which Four — medium.com/@vishalmisra/p… (~Apr 11) 2 Five Bowlers in Eighteen Years — medium.com/@vishalmisra/f… (Apr 9) 3 The Impact Player Treadmill — medium.com/@vishalmisra/t… (Apr 8)