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reddit.comSachin Tendulkar's wagon wheel - India vs Australia. Not a single 4 of the cover drive. Out of 240 runs, he scored 186 runs on his leg side. Such discipline while playing 436 balls or 73 overs himself was unprecedented for a player who loved his cover drives with Aus bowling everything on the off si
But then the counting started, and with it came an explosion of new information. The advent of modern sports analysis techniques means that now data is collected on every detail of every ball in every First Class or List A cricket match in the world. For many of those matches and for all internationals and major T20 leagues we also have Hawk-Eye
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Glenn McGrath took 26 wickets at an average of 11.5. In all 62 per cent of the balls he bowled at Lord’s landed in that 6–8-metre area, and virtually nothing was fuller than that. Overall, for the matches in his career that we have data for, he hit a good length with 58 per cent of the balls he bowled, higher than any other bowler in the Hawk-Eye
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The converse is, of course, true, which is why the batsman’s strengths and weaknesses need to be taken into account, along with how the bowler is trying to dismiss him.