Mohammed Siraj bowled 47 spells in this series, and not one of them was slower than 131kph
Ben Jones
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Ben Jones
@benjonescricket
Head of Insight at CricViz. Analyst with teams & broadcasters around the world. Commentator, writer, 'Hitting Against the Spin' co-author.
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Joined April 2012
- Joe Root needs 2539 runs to pass Sachin. For reference, 2539 runs ago for Root was in Wellington against New Zealand, Feb 2023
- One day Rishabh Pant is going to hit a six with no feet on the ground and no hands on the bat
- Anderson should warn batters before bowling inswingers imo. Spirit of cricket
- Ask for a nightwatchman to face the new ball, that nightwatchman gets out, you then get your pad blown off while not playing a shot, three reds. Gosh
- Nitish Kumar Reddy has now hit five sixes against pace in Australia. No Indian has more in Test history.
- If there's been a better wicketless spell in T20 cricket, I don't think I've seen it. Utterly obscene from Naseem Shah
- Say what you like about England's persistent with Crawley, but I *think* it's all been worth it for his 10 minutes of absolute god-tier shithousery
- 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.
- Hazlewood outscoring Marnus, and Marnus' average speed higher than Hazlewood's. Weird Test
- In 2018, as an analyst and writer with huge expertise in T20 cricket, @fwildecricket (co)-wrote a book with a chapter called "Why RCB Lose". He has then gone on to join RCB as their head of analysis, and win the IPL. I think that's pretty fucking cool
- We've been playing Test cricket for 150 years - that's one of the best endings to any of them. *Unreal* stuff
- Four years since someone last hit Jasprit Bumrah for two sixes in the same over of an #IPL game. It's Karun Nair's first IPL game in three years. Decent comeback
- Bumrah is the best seamer in the world by a margin which genuinely terrifies me