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Which teams would have won a Test championship if there had been one all along?
We retrofit all the Tests played between 1877 and 2025 into a Test Championship League
Anantha Narayanan
February 2025
Where will today's top Test players finish their careers?
With some of the best long-format players around approaching the twilight of their careers, here's a look at how many runs and wickets they're likely to end with
Anantha Narayanan
March 2024
Which Test captains had the greatest effect on their team's fortunes?
Plus, the canniest captaincy tactics, the zaniest declarations, the luckiest toss winners, the overachievers, and more
Anantha Narayanan
February 2023
Which players win the most T20s - and does it matter?
Win-loss records can be a blunt instrument to measure a player's worth with, but franchises are still likely to keep an eye on them during the IPL auction
Matt Roller
December 2022
The 'real value' of wickets: can anyone match McGrath?
And which was the most valuable wicket in Test history? Find out in this comprehensive analysis
Anantha Narayanan
June 2022
How the IPL franchises spent their money in the auction
Were keeper-batters more in demand than allrounders? Oldies better than newbies? We make sense of the numbers in this deep dive
The 'real value' of runs: where Root, Lara and Laxman shine
An exhaustive analysis determining the worth of a batter's Test runs has a great allrounder as the biggest gainer
Anantha Narayanan
March 2022
The age of bowling
Stunning strike rates, incredible depth in attacks, battered batters: a deep dive into an unparalleled era of bowler domination in Test cricket
S Rajesh
February 2022
Which players bucked cricket's statistical trends most notably?
Meet the innings specialists, the away artists, the conversion masters, the batting-order yo-yos, and more
Anantha Narayanan
March 2021