Wet Wicket
A loving exploration of cricket. Deep dives into the game's intricacies through data, great matches, games and essays, by cricket lovers, for cricket lovers.
Rain Rules
What happens to a cricket match when the heavens open, and whether the maths that decides it is fair.
Read the seriesLatest from the ground
Who Wins When It Rains
Rain-free chases replayed under six rain rules, to see which ones favour the chasing side.
The Wrong Number
Durban, 2003. South Africa hit the six they thought they needed, blocked the next ball, and walked off into the rain and out of their own World Cup.
Beat the Par
Six real chases, six sudden downpours. Guess the Duckworth–Lewis par score and see how your over goes.
Someone, Somewhere
How a farce in Sydney, a remark on the radio and two English statisticians gave cricket a rain rule it could live with.
The D/L Calculator
Work out a revised target and par sheet with the Duckworth–Lewis Standard Edition, the version anyone can do by hand.
Around the ground
The Numbers
Data explorations: what the scorecards say when you read all of them at once.
Classics
Epic matches, broken down through the moments that decided them.
The Nets
Simple browser games for when you have an over or two to spare.
The Long Room
Long-form writing on the game, its laws and its history.
Scorebook
Things to use rather than read: explorers and calculators.