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Cricket and the Cosmos: Inside the Mind of Himanish Ganjoo
Here's all you need to know about Himanish Ganjoo: He's one of the world's most respected voices and thinkers when it comes to cricket stats and data analysis and he recently used that expertise to help India capture the 2024 T20 World Cup -- the team's first major international championship in over a decade. The scary part? Cricket isn't even his main gig. Ganjoo is a physicist who recently received his PhD in Cosmology. And he's about to move from the US, where he's been studying, to France -- where cricket is even less of a blip on the radar than in the US -- to begin his postdoc work…
Major League Cricket 2024 Preview
This side of the Earth was just host to one of the most exciting World Cups in recent memory and now the eyes of the cricketing world will remain fixed on the US as Major League Cricket gets ready to…
Super Eights: Marooned!
The Cinderella run of the USA Cricket team might have ended last night an hour or so short of actual midnight. After taking down Pakistan and putting some fear into both India and South Africa, the US ran up against…
Super Eights: Heading South against South Africa
The USA Cricket team put a couple of scares into South Africa in the first match in the Super Eights round of the 2024 T20 World Cup, but in the end, it was South Africa's big bats that took them…
On to the Super Eights!
After shocking the cricketing world with a stunning win over Pakistan and a gutsy performance against India, anticlimactically, it was a rain-soaked outfield in Florida that would ultimately propel the USA Cricket team to the Super Eights round of the…
Spin Control
While there's no shortage of differences between baseball and cricket, there is some common ground. If you've watched any baseball, it's very easy to wrap your brain around the idea of a fast cricket bowler bringing the heat and coming…
Brashna Kasi: Quetta, Karachi, and Canastota
In the time I've been writing about cricket, I've had the chance to meet a lot of other members of the cricket media. And since the American cricket media only goes about nine deep, most of the folks I've met…
Cricket Stats 101: Bowling Statistics
As we saw in our look at batting statistics, the importance of various numbers and equations depends on the format of the game being played. Stats that may be the Gold Standard for comparing players in Test cricket may be…
Reza Khan: Cricket, the Cubs, and the Bay Area
Cricket is very much in the DIY -- "do it yourself" -- phase of its growth in this country. There's not a whole lot of existing infrastructure in terms of stadiums, developmental leagues, dedicated training facilities, etc. And there's no…
Cricket Stats 101: Batting Statistics
An obsession with sports statistics. It's what separates Man from the lesser primates. We start the year obsessing over NBA and NCAA assists, steals, and field goal percentages and NHL penalty-kill numbers. It continues through the spring and summer with…
Manning Up: Life Lessons and West Indies Cricket
If you've spent any time in the giant world of cricket social media, you've seen Joel Manning. In addition to his very high-profile role as essentially the face of West Indies Cricket on social media, barely a day goes by…
