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Press release says:
"Warwickshire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Sophie Ball as its inaugural Head of Data and Intelligence, a pioneering role that reinforces the Club’s commitment to innovation and high-performance excellence."
It says of Sophie: "She began her career with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as an analyst before spending the past six years at British Cycling as Lead Insights Analyst."
The old-fashioned part of me is slightly cynical about these kinds of roles. Did her six years at British Cycling lead to any insights other than "Pedal faster"?

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Data analytics has an important role to play in sports and business.

Hopefully she will see from the data that selecting a professional batsman with a red ball average of 16.85 after 8 games is not going to help the team win matches.

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Two brilliant responses - I can't stop laughing and helps make up for the fact I won't be able to follow the game tonight!!!

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There is always Radio Wales coverage, but that is probably the worst on the circuit.