Cricket statistics

Cricket is a sport that generates a large number of statistics.

Analysis of cricket statistics

Although cricket statistics have been recorded since the late 1800s, they have mostly been regarded by fans in a traditional manner of simply comparing the numbers between players. This contrasts with baseball, which generates a similar profusion of statistical records. Baseball statistics have been studied in greater detail, leading to the field of sabermetrics, which has produced several new statistics expressly designed to give better indications of the relative strengths and values of players.

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1800s - Baseball - Baseball statistics - Sabermetrics

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This sort of detailed analysis has not yet been generally applied to cricket statistics, although some statisticians are beginning to look at cricket with an eye to providing a similar depth of analysis. Professional cricket coaches are using computer records of ball-by-ball play to obtain more detailed statistical analysis of player performances than ever before. However, these analyses have seen little spread into the public knowledge of the fan community.

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Coaches - Computer

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One example of a proposed new cricket statistic is a figure to better indicate a batsman's value than his batting average. Since the average is somewhat inflated by the presence of any not out innings, some have argued that a more indicative statistic would be the number of runs scored per innings, regardless of whether the batsman was out or not. This statistic is not used by any major media outlets or commentators, perhaps because it fails to account for successful lower-order batsmen who often run out of batting partners.

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