
Promotion in the order is the tactic, and the hitter is almost incidental

The rope has crept in and the fielding side never adjusted

Humidity does not swing the ball, and the myth outlives every test of it

Black soil and red soil are close to being two different sports

A relaid square plays strangely for years and the record book pretends otherwise

Captains have stopped deciding at the toss and you can hear it

Flight has been priced out of the short game and something is being lost

A wrist spinner is a matchup, not a strike bowler

Wickets in the middle overs are worth more than they cost to buy

A length is a decision about the field, not about the pitch

Seam position is a wrist habit, and the mixed action is what sends bowlers to the surgeon

Fours and sixes should not be counted as the same thing

The wide yorker has stopped paying its way at the death

The powerplay is two different phases and teams keep treating it as one

A strike rate without a phase attached is a broken number

A batter with one gear is still worth picking

Going from two men out to five changes less than teams behave as if it does
