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Strategy, data, and the stories behind Play 16-0.
The best death bowlers in T20 cricket, ranked by two decades of data
Who is the best death bowler in T20? We ranked the last-over specialists of Indian T20 history by the rating of 3,197 seasons: a 1.69 crore masterpiece at number one, an economy that should not exist, the Bumrah arc, and why the death overs keep getting dearer.
The best finishers in T20 cricket, ranked by data instead of memory
Who is the best finisher in T20 cricket? We ranked the men who owned the last five overs of Indian T20 history across 3,197 rated seasons: one genuine unicorn year, MS Dhoni's real statistical peak, two seats that cost under a crore, and why finishing breaks every rating system ever built.
What is a good strike rate in T20 cricket? Real benchmarks from 3,197 seasons
A good T20 strike rate, economy rate and batting average, answered with distributions instead of anecdotes: the medians, the top 10 percent lines and the elite tier across two decades of Indian T20 history, and why the meaning of good moves every single year.
The best T20 XI of all time, picked by 3,197 rated seasons: the team you cannot afford
What is the greatest T20 XI ever? We let the rating of 3,197 player-seasons from Indian T20 history pick the team: no panel, no nostalgia. The result bats five deep, carries six bowlers and not one spinner, and costs more than the game lets anyone spend.
Cricket Wordle, five ways: the daily cricket puzzle games worth your streak, honestly reviewed
Looking for games like Wordle built for cricket fans? Fair reviews of Stumpd, Crickle, Crickdle and Nurdle, plus the daily cricket puzzle that asks for eleven answers instead of one: same board worldwide, first attempt counts, streaks and a leaderboard.
15-1 would win almost any league on earth. In this game it is the scoreline that hurts the most.
For every perfect season there are many that stop one match short. On variance, sixteen chances for one bad night, a real league that has never once seen an unbeaten season, and what to actually do with an almost-perfect XI.
Eleven picks, sixteen matches, one perfect season. The complete guide to Play 16-0.
Everything a new player needs in one place: how the draft reel works, the rules of a legal XI, how to read a board, Normal versus Expert, the Daily Challenge, Franchise mode, and what it actually takes to go 16-0.
Same 3,197 seasons. Two different games. Normal versus Expert, and why 25 crore changes everything.
Normal and Expert draft from the identical player-season pool. Only four rules differ between them, and two of those rules, stacked together, are why Expert plays like a different sport.
The spin is half the draft. The fifteen deepest boards in the game, ranked.
Every spin lands on a franchise-season board, and boards are not created equal. We ranked the fifteen deepest boards in the draft, and how to read any board fast.
The keeper decides more than you think. The one pick every draft demands, rated.
A wicketkeeper is the only player the draft forces you to take, and the single highest-rated season in the whole database wears the gloves. The elite shelf, the expensive mistakes, and the one-crore steals.
Batting sells the tickets. The bowling market wins the drafts. The best bowling seasons, rated.
The top-rated bowling season in the game costs less than two crore. We ranked every bowling year in the draft database: the elite, the economy kings, the bargains, and the expensive mistakes.
Nineteen Virat Kohli seasons, rated one at a time. Same legend, wildly different picks.
From a quiet 165-run debut to the record-setting 2016 and a top-one-percent late-career surge, we rated every Virat Kohli season in the draft database. The gap between his best year and his worst is the whole game.
A 16-0 season is built, not lucked into. Here’s what the squads that get there have in common.
A perfect 16-0 sits at the very ceiling of what the game allows. We dug into the data to find what every squad that reaches it shares.
We rated all 3,197 player-seasons in the draft database. Here’s who’s actually overpowered.
Two decades of Indian T20 history, rated season by season. Some player-seasons break the game. The most expensive names are often traps.