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Month: August, 2012

21 August 2012

Consistency: Why South Africa has been the best Test side over the last 5 years

FEATURE: South Africa are number one. Horray. Depending on how you measure these things, however, there is a case to be made we have been the best Test side over the past five years; certainly if you use consistency as your measure that holds true. In the article below I look at the performance of the ‘big four’ Test teams – Australia, India, South Africa and England – over the past five years, using the ICC Rankings as a guide and see what that says about each of them in turn.

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6 August 2012

The Kallis double century mystery solved

FEATURE: Why did it take so long for Jacques Kallis to score 200? For a long, long time, this was the question on every South African cricket-supporter’s mind. In November 2010, just before he scored his first 200, I did the following analysis which, I think, solves the mystery. Indeed, in retrospect, the way in which Kallis went about getting his first 200 seems to suggest it was correct. It is worth reflecting on today, if only to understand what it was, exactly, he needed to overcome. Read on to find out what it was.