Some numbers from India's #T20WorldCup campaign. To start, India arrived in Australia winning 26/35 T20Is after last year's WC smashing everyone in bilaterals. The brilliance of SKY, Hardik and their new ball bowlers masked their various other inefficiencies in this tournament. India were the best team in batting Powerplay bw the two WCs with an average of 52 runs in the first six overs. This World Cup, they scored at 6.02 per over in Powerplay - only UAE scored at a lower rate than India in this phase.

🇮🇳 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 semifinal tommorw offers loads of interesting battles, sub-plots and narratives and I'm particularly looking forward to the Powerplay battle bw England openers & India's new ball bowlers. With Bumrah ruled out, India have been heavily reliant on early swing. Both Arshdeep and Bhuvi have been in brilliant form and India was the best side in Powerplay in Super 12 with the ball - 10 wickets at 17.10, ER 5.70.
32/2 v 🇵🇰
27/2 v 🇳🇱
24/3 v 🇿🇦
60/0 v 🇧🇩
28/3 v 🇿🇼

Sunil Gavaskar was the greatest opening batsman against the deadly West Indies pace quartets of the late 1970s and 1980s.
MYTH BUSTER.
Thread. Gavaskar scored more runs against WI than anyone else in Test cricket history - 2749 runs (Avg 65.45, 13 X 100s).
He opened in all but one innings scoring 2513 runs at the top of the order at 59.83, arguably the toughest slot to bat against an all firing pace attack.

Something about #ViratKohli innings yesterday. There were just eight dots out of the 50 he balls faced, six of which came in his first nine balls he faced. The last two came of his 24th [a leg bye] & 25th balls which meant each of his last 25 balls were scored off.

#INDvWI Among the 57 batsmen with 1000+ runs in T20Is, Kohli’s SR of 136.70 is only the 16th best. He hits a boundary only every 6.1 balls, which is ranked 30th in the list. However, only 53% of Kohli’s career runs have come in boundaries [4s+6s].

#INDvWI #ViratKohli

THREAD [1/6]

How fair is the ICC Test Championship points system?

🔹Nine teams play six series each with a series carrying a max of 120 points each

🔹71 Tests to be played across 27 series

🔹Three series each to be played home and away [2/6]

A Test win in a series accounts for

2-Test series: 60 points
3-Test series: 40 points
4-Test series: 30 points
5-Test series: 24 points

[1/14] THREAD - India's defeat in the semifinal was a logical culmination of a sequence of events that the team management/selectors overlooked in the lead up to the tournament buildup last year or two. [2/14] - Over-dependence on top three

India's top three contributed 63% of all runs scored by India since the last World Cup - more than any other side. To a large extent, Rohit-Kohli-Dhawan hid the fragilities of a wafer-thin middle & lower order.