The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN
Some records are obscure even as they are announced, some, though remarkable, are inevitable. Chris Gayle is about to become the first to make 10,000 runs in T20s. Well, somebody had to…and in fact none of the usual cricket websites offer this particular list.
Gayle has played 288 T20s with a batting average of over 40 and a strike rate just below 150. It has been suggested the T20 watcher is a different breed, more interested in the spectacle than the history or records of that variant, with...