Lessons from an Empty Dossier: The Blockchain of Evidence in Cricket Scouting

Last week a file landed on my desk. Inside it there was no title, no source, not a single information point. The analytical framework itself was fully intact — format, player, team, league, governance, risk, expectation — but every cell was empty. This was not a technical glitch. It was a mirror. A dossier with nothing written in it asks the most honest question of all: what do we actually see, and what do we only think we see? I have spent a large part of my life sifting through time-stamped video clips, scorecards and selection-committee documents. In 2026, when I sat in the recruitment room at Jersey Road — the only woman in that room — I had a 42-clip dossier in front of me, each clip carrying a time code, each claim carrying an exact number. A coach said women do not read tactics. I did not answer with an opinion; I answered with clips. From that day my reports began with the same header — verified data. Not "electric pace"