My earliest memory of analytics is my sister and I watching my father creating Lotus 123 spreadsheets to track and even visualise our weekly performances at athletics. Despite being a fairly average athlete, I remember being transfixed as the charts updated each week. Now we live in the Strava era and there were a couple of questions I had that I couldn't answer without using their API to get at my data.

Inspired by an enthralling Ashes series, I wanted to play around with cricket data available from various free and commercial sources out there.. Despite a bit of trawling, I couldn't really find a single document detailing what was available. I've tried to make a start.