Read this small thread to know why #GabbaTest win is so special. 👇

1. India didn't had it's key players playing like Rahul and kohli. So it was always a pressure situation. Even you not see on face but it lies well within them
2. Big players like Ishant, shami, umesh and Bhuvi were injured
3. Rahane was New captain with very few experience in Captaincy. He only captained 4 matches before it.
4. Gabba was the ground or I would say fortress of Australia where it was unbeaten for past 33 years
5. Paine was Sledging Ashwin in last match
6. India had previously played 6 matches at Gabba and had a record of losing 5 and drawing 1.
7. The bowlers which were bowling had a total of 13 wickets in International test matches whereas Australian bowlers had a combined number of 1200 wicket in tests. These guys managed to take all 20 wickets but Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc and Lyon couldn't.
8. India had many youngsters batting with very few experience like pant, gill, sundar and shardul thakur. Still they scored for team India when it was needed the most
9. Also all great players of past predict the results in Australia's Favour
10. So India although against all the odds against them defeated Australian team in their fortress.

This is all what makes this win so special. 🇮🇳🐅💙
What a moment 💙💙💙

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#swfc are finally back in league action tonight 8pm GMT away to Coventry #pusb

A relegation six pointer to kick off our second half of the season with 7 points separating us in 23rd and them in 16th.

A look of our numbers and theirs below and what they can tell us.

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I looked at the survival prognosis for teams in our position yesterday (
https://t.co/rmVT8b5sFl).

Thankfully a prognosis is not a prediction, but it does bear out just how important tonight's game is.


Can we quantify match importance then?

Well, @FiveThirtyEight have given it a right good go and how they've done it is explained here: https://t.co/ObjB079Fjw

Their match importance rating ranges from 0 to 100 for a team.

In a game with a high match importance vs. a team with low match importance, a team's likelihood of winning increases: All else being equal, if match importance is 100 for the home team and 0 for the away team, the home team's odds of winning drop from Evens (50%) to 8/11 (58%).

If we look at the combined match importance ratings for both teams, tonight's game ranks 14th of the 317 matches with match importance ratings. Pretty important then!

Of our matches only the win against Bournemouth had a higher combined match importance than tonight's match:

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