GUIDES

How to Draft a World Cup XI: The roll-pick-skip mechanic behind The Chase, the six team templates, and what it actually takes to chase 380 without losing a wicket.
How to Chase a Big ODI Total: Required run rate, wickets in hand, and pacing an innings across the powerplay, middle overs and death: why the team that panics first usually loses.
Can You Chase 380? The Scoring Ceiling and the Elite Floor: Why a 50-over total tops out near 380, how elite line-ups are protected from collapse, and what it actually takes to reach the top of the range.
ODI Powerplays, 1971 to Today: Field restrictions began as a fix for dead opening overs and have been rewritten roughly every decade. What each rewrite changed, and what the archive says it did to scoring and to wickets.
Required Run Rate, and Why Chases Collapse: The arithmetic of a chase, why the rate alone misleads without wickets in hand, and what the ODI and Test archives say about which targets actually get chased down.
How the World Cup Format Changed, 1975 to 2023: Thirteen editions, and almost as many structures: sixty overs to fifty, eight teams to sixteen and back to ten, and what the Super Six and Super Eight were trying to fix.
Net Run Rate, Explained: The arithmetic behind the column that decides qualification, why it rewards winning big and punishes losing big, and the all-out rule almost everyone gets wrong.
Associate Nations in ODI Cricket: Scotland, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nepal and the rest: who has actually played one-day internationals, how many, and the golden generations the fixture list forgot.

Alex Loudon

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England · SPIN · 2006 to 2006 · on scorecards: AGR Loudon

BATTING

Matches: 1
Innings: 1
Runs: 0
Average: 0
Strike rate: 0
High score: 0
100s / 50s: 0 / 0

BOWLING & FIELDING

Wickets: 0
Average: -
Economy: 6
Strike rate: -
Best figures: -
4w / 5w: 0 / 0
Catches / Stumpings: 0 / 0
Run-outs effected: 0

CAREER IN BRIEF

Alex Loudon played 1 ODI for England in CricArcade's archive, in 2006. The first came against Sri Lanka at Riverside Ground, with a score of 0.

The career totals above are the official figures; everything below is computed from the 1 ODI scorecard in CricArcade's archive, each linked.

BEST INNINGS

Runs	Balls	Against	Ground	Year	Result
0	–	Sri Lanka	Riverside Ground	2006	Lost

RECORD BY OPPONENT

Against	ODIs	Runs	Avg	100/50
Sri Lanka	1	0	0.00	0/0

HOME, AWAY AND NEUTRAL

Where	ODIs	Runs	Avg	100/50
Home	1	0	0.00	0/0

GROUNDS

Ground	ODIs	Runs	Avg	100/50
Riverside Ground	1	0	0.00	0/0

FIRST AND LAST

Debut: v Sri Lanka, 2006 at Riverside Ground

PLAYER DETAILS

Born: 6 September 1980
Batting: Right-hand bat
Bowling: Right-arm offbreak
Ducks: 1
Four-wicket hauls: 0

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