Analysis on SportsOnehttp://sportsone.world/categories/analysis/Recent content in Analysis on SportsOneHugoen-INFri, 14 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0530One wicket, 359 runs and the innings that keeps getting harder to explainhttp://sportsone.world/posts/headingley-2019-stokes/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/headingley-2019-stokes/England were bowled out for 67 in the first innings at Headingley in 2019 and still won the Test. Ben Stokes finished 135 not out, with Jack Leach on one.The treble that was built in midfield, not in front of goalhttp://sportsone.world/posts/manchester-city-treble/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/manchester-city-treble/Manchester City won the league, the FA Cup and the Champions League in 2023. The tactical decision that made it possible was moving a full back into the centre.1:59:40 in Vienna, and why it was never going to be a world recordhttp://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/kipchoge-sub-two/Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon distance in under two hours in October 2019. The conditions that made it possible are exactly the ones that disqualified it.Three comebacks and a final: how Real Madrid won a European Cup they were outplayed inhttp://sportsone.world/posts/real-madrid-2022/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/real-madrid-2022/Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City were all ahead on aggregate and all went out. Then Madrid beat Liverpool with a quarter of the possession.A final that finished level twice and was decided by a counting rulehttp://sportsone.world/posts/world-cup-2019-final/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:45:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/world-cup-2019-final/England and New Zealand tied at 241 at Lord’s in 2019, tied the super over at 15, and the trophy went on boundaries. The rule was changed the following year.The return, not the serve: what actually built twenty-four majorshttp://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-24-majors/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:10:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/djokovic-24-majors/Novak Djokovic’s record is usually explained by flexibility and defence. The numbers point somewhere less romantic — the second-serve return.The seven years at Dortmund that changed how Europe defendshttp://sportsone.world/posts/dortmund-gegenpressing/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/dortmund-gegenpressing/Jürgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund won two Bundesliga titles with a wage bill a fraction of Bayern’s, using an idea that is now taught everywhere.Thirteen hundred wickets between them, and a partnership built on being differenthttp://sportsone.world/posts/anderson-broad-new-ball/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:05:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/anderson-broad-new-ball/James Anderson and Stuart Broad shared a new ball for over a decade. The reason it worked was that almost nothing about how they bowled was the same.Two ways to win the same points: Alcaraz, Sinner and a rivalry of oppositeshttp://sportsone.world/posts/alcaraz-sinner/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:50:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/alcaraz-sinner/One plays with variety and improvisation, the other with the flattest ball-striking on tour. What makes the match-up worth watching is that neither style is beating the other.402 three-pointers in a season, and the shot chart that emptied the mid-rangehttp://sportsone.world/posts/curry-three-point/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/curry-three-point/Golden State went 73-9 in 2015-16 and Stephen Curry became the first unanimous MVP. The arithmetic he demonstrated has since reshaped every roster in the league.The IPL is now a broadcast business that happens to stage crickethttp://sportsone.world/posts/ipl-franchise-economics/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/ipl-franchise-economics/Media rights, not gate receipts or merchandise, are what the league sells. Everything about the calendar and the format follows from that.€222m, and the transfer that stopped being a ceiling and became a floorhttp://sportsone.world/posts/neymar-transfer-record/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/neymar-transfer-record/Paris Saint-Germain more than doubled the world record to sign Neymar in 2017. The lasting effect was on every fee underneath it.How a village game became India's second-biggest television sporthttp://sportsone.world/posts/pro-kabaddi-league/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:20:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/pro-kabaddi-league/Pro Kabaddi launched in 2014 with a format built for broadcast. A decade on, the audience is enormous and the talent pipeline is still catching up.Six overs decide more T20 matches than the last six, and the market knows ithttp://sportsone.world/posts/t20-powerplay-batting/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:15:00 +0530http://sportsone.world/posts/t20-powerplay-batting/Fielding restrictions make the powerplay the only phase where a batter is guaranteed space. Sides have finally started paying for players who can use it.