India, Feb. 8 -- T20 cricket has undergone a massive revolution in the last few years. With data and artificial intelligence becoming essential aids in sports analysis, you would expect cricket to follow the same route. And it has, but inconsistently. It largely continues to be explained through passe statistical yardsticks - strike rates for batters, economy rates for bowlers.

Those numbers still dominate television graphics, social media discourse and selection arguments. But according to analysts working closest to the game, they do not give a holistic point of view.

As T20 evolves at an exponential rate, faster scoring, deeper batting, flatter pitches and more predictable phases, the metrics that truly matter are becoming more conte...