Zak Crawley registers a significant number in cricket's data-driven world

The 22-year-old England batsman delivered on his huge potential with a coming-of-age innings against PakistanZak Crawley pushes the ball through point for a single. The scoreboard operator at the Rose Bowl clicks another run on to his total. Up in the England dressing room, an analyst logs the run on his laptop, along with its associated metadata: a full-length ball, just outside off-stump, seaming away slightly, played off the front foot, with control. On Sky Sports, a graphics operator adds th