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  1. What Babar Azam's slow thirties reveal about his missing ODI hundreds

    The century drought is real, yet Babar still outscores most top-order batters. Something else has gone from his one-day game, and it is costing him three figures.

  2. Where our ratings put Shai Hope, the hipster's choice

    An ODI average past 50 and 21 hundreds build the cult case for Hope. Our ratings place him 16th of 118 in the format.

    WisdenShai Hope, the hipster’s choice as the world’s best all-format batter

  1. India's new middle order and the run chases it never got to bat in

    Tilak Varma and Naman Dhir are being hailed as heirs to Suresh Raina. India's last two big ODI chases never needed them.

  2. What Arshdeep Singh's record year for India is really counting

    Arshdeep Singh now has more T20I wickets in a calendar year than any Indian bowler. The runs he gave away to get them tell a quieter story.

  3. What Travis Head's own scores say about Australia's partnership problem

    Australia's best batter of the last two years is also the clearest example of the one-man-at-a-time habit he wants his side to break.

    ESPNcricinfoTravis Head hopes under-fire Australia find 'that collective batting day'

  1. Is a target of 198 enough to make India sweat against Zimbabwe?

    Zimbabwe have lost nine of their last ten ODIs, yet India arrive at this chase carrying three straight defeats of their own.

  2. Can Rashid Khan and Ibrahim Zadran sink Zimbabwe again?

    Atal, Zadran and Rashid ran through Zimbabwe in the league stage. The long records of Zadran and Rashid tell two very different stories about a repeat.

  3. The Sri Lanka chase that left Harry Brook's 202 without a curtain call

    Brook made the highest score of his ODI career and lost. The side that beat him had been bowled out for 132 by England a month earlier.

    CricTrackerSri Lanka complete second-highest chase in ODI history to upstage record-breaking Brook in tri-series

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