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Conventional wisdom has long favored chasing in this format, built on decades of pitches that deteriorated late. The side’s analytics staff found that assumption no longer holds on modern, better-maintained surfaces, where setting a total and defending it now carries a measurably better win rate.
The captain’s decision to bat first at every toss this season, regardless of conditions, was built on that single finding — and has drawn criticism from commentators still working from the older assumption.
An old assumption, a new surface
Analytics found that on modern, better-maintained pitches, setting a total now carries a better win rate than chasing — the opposite of the format's long-standing convention.
What this means in practice
A tactical convention built on old conditions can quietly become wrong once the underlying conditions change, even if nobody updates the wisdom.
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