A strike rate without a phase attached to it is just noise
Sending a left-hander up early is the cheapest tactic in the tournament
Two boundary riders decide the middle overs and captains keep wasting them
Dew is the biggest variable in the tournament and we still pretend otherwise
Red soil and black soil want completely different lengths from you
The same strip cannot survive a whole season and we keep asking it to
The toss gets blamed for things the schedule actually caused
Nobody bowls the doosra any more, and nobody misses it
The toss is not the villain. The dew is.
Dot balls are a trap in the middle overs
The yorker is not the safest ball at the death any more
The scrambled seam is the only new-ball weapon left in this tournament
Dot balls tell you far more about an innings than boundaries do
The wide yorker stopped working and half the bowlers never got the memo
The extra batter rule took fear out of the powerplay, for better and worse
Batting average should not exist in this format at all
Pinch hitting is a phrase that describes nothing any more
