Deep Backward Point

The Willow TV story– where the popular US cricket streaming service is sending legal notices to alleged subscribers of pirated streams– is developing fast. I’ve been updating the original blog post as I learn more information.

Previously on DeepBackwardPoint.com:

• What’s Up with Willow TV?
• How Lalit Modi and the BCCI (almost) Killed Willow TV

So let’s say you are Geoff Marsh, and you’re coaching Sri Lanka. Do you tell them your sons’ weaknesses before the upcoming series?

If you don’t, is that a conflict of interest?

#justsaying

Sneakily introduced a new design here a few days ago. Let me know what you think. Primary focus is readability. Don’t care if you notice the gadgets and gizmos in sidebars and dropdown menus. You read, I’ll keep writing.

I’ve harped on Trott a lot. I wrote three very long posts trying to present numbers that quantify the uneasiness he generates.

That is what makes him so interesting– the most popular metrics used to judge a cricketer fail when judging Jonathan Trott. Batting average, strike rate, gross runs, 100s, 50s, are an inadequate set. Those of us who pay attention to numbers have known about the inadequacy of traditional statistics, but Jonathan Trott personifies this struggle. Any time anyone says, what’s wrong with traditional stats? We can say, “Jonathan Trott,” and smile knowingly.

He has scored enough runs on average. He has scored at a decent stike rate on average. And he has scored a lot of runs in aggregate. But what the numbers don’t tell you is whether he scored the runs at the appropriate time, at the appropriate rate. And that’s why I keep writing about him.

And Misbah. I need to write about Misbah.