Zak Crawley emerges from cricket’s data fog to leave Pakistan reeling | Jonathan Liew

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The 22-year-old England batsman delivered on his huge potential with a coming-of-age innings against Pakistan

Zak Crawley pushes the ball through point for a single. The scoreboard operator at the Rose Bowl clicks another run on to his total. Up in the England dressing room, an analyst logs the run on his laptop, along with its associated metadata: a full-length ball, just outside off-stump, seaming away slightly, played off the front foot, with control. On Sky Sports, a graphics operator adds the run in real time, moving England’s score to 28 for one. Meanwhile on Cricinfo’s live database, Crawley’s innings score and live career average are updated accordingly.

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