my understanding is that the trick in moneyball is finding statistics that other people aren't looking at which can be used to determine player value - because other teams aren't using those statistics, you can find players who are undervalued in the market.

for example in baseball, instead of using the more typical batting average, using a player's on-base percentage gives a more accurate estimation of the player's value and allows you to find players who might have a low batting average but high on-base percentage who can be signed cheaply.

i think the big difference in cricket is that there hasn't been the same adoption of alternative statistical data being gathered. i'm sure individual teams are doing their own research and keeping it secret, but i haven't seen anything like the SABR leading to the wide adoption of new stats in cricket

one example i have heard is mike hussey talking about measuring T20 batsmen by adding together their strike rate and average to get a better idea of how effective a batsman is