At CricViz we have a 'good line & length' range which for quicks is between 5 & 8.3 metres from the stumps & in a 25cm channel from off stump. In our database no pace bowler has hit this range with a higher proportion of his deliveries than Mohammad Abbas' 49%. 
Since 2006 39 batsmen in Test cricket have played at least 2500 defensive shots. Of those players no one has a more solid defence than Ajinkya Rahane who is only dismissed once every 147 defensive strokes played.
The worst player in this sample is Warner, who is almost 10% below the next worst. Interestingly, Pujara & Cook feature in the list. This is largely explained by the fact that they defend significantly more often than most players so are more likely to get out doing so.
Since 2006 Lasith Malinga has bowled 1030 yorkers in ODIs - that is nearly thee times as many as the next most prolific yorker bowler in this period. Malinga is a freakish bowler with a freakish record.
Away swing to the right-hander is one of the most dangerous weapons in Test cricket. In the @CricViz database no batsman averages more runs per wicket against the delivery than AB de Villiers.
There are no prizes for guessing which quick bowler has bowled the most bouncers in Test cricket since 2006. New Zealand's Neil Wagner is way out in front. Almost one third of his deliveries are bouncers (pitching more than 10 metres from the stumps).
A false shot is a shot edged or missed. False shot percentage is a good indication of quality. The players with a lower false shot percentage remain in control more often & return higher averages. Since 2006 Sangakkara is the world leader by this measure.
Wickets are more valuable the earlier they are taken. Since 1999 these are the most potent bowlers in the first ten overs of the innings. Two rapid Australians and two swing-king Kiwis lead the list.
At the other end of the innings the focus shifts from wicket-taking to run-saving. In the death overs the most important measure is economy rate. This list, ordered by ER since 1999, is dominated by players from the 2000s, when run rates were lower. Bumrah is the exception.
This graphic showing the fastest scorers in ODIs since the 2015 World Cup illustrates just how good Jos Buttler is. His strike rate of 124.59 is 14% better that the second best in the world in this period. Freakish levels of domination by England's maverick right-hander.
This scatter of all ODI batsmen from Full Member nations with at least 900 runs beautifully illustrates the game's modern outliers. From Dre, to Maxi to Jos; from Pooran (sneaking in the sample), to AB to Kohli. This is a nice arc up the risk v reward trade-off of batting.
We've continued on the same theme & produced a similar scatter but since the 2015 World Cup. The dotted lines split the frontier pushers into different groups. ABdV is the only player to average 50+ at a SR of 110+ in this period & Buttler the only player to average 45+ at 120+.
Who are the frontier pushers in T20? This scatter plot shows the batsmen operating in the upper bounds of averages and strike rates.
True Economy Rate is a metric for contextualising economy rate and it is calculated by comparing a bowler's performance in a given over to the expected run rate in that over in that year. The measure illustrates how incredible Narine and Rashid are in the shortest format.
Analysis of True Run Rate & True Dismissal Rate since the start of 2019 throws out two major outliers: Russell in terms of run rate; Warner in terms of dismissal rate. It's interesting to note England's strength in depth: Bairstow, Moeen, Salt & Banton have been superb of late.
This chart shows the world's best T20 pace bowlers since 2018 according to our unique Match Impact model which evaluates players by measuring their influence on the match (in runs) compared to that of an average player.
