Well that’s it for the Big Bash 6, and how appropriate was it that the Scorchers handed the Sixers as big a bashing you’ll see in a T20 tournament final! Cricmetric has prepared an alternative, data driven game summary for last night’s final. Unfortunately many of the observations we will share are trivial given the one-sided… Read More »Scorchers v Sixers, BBL06 Final – An Alternative Review
Aaron Finch was certainly facing a dilemma going into the final over of last nights match against the Sixers. Four wicket’s down, the Sixers needed 8 runs to tie and 9 to win off the final over. Brad Haddin was on strike and the set batsman, having made a measured 23 off 19. At the… Read More »Renegades Loss to the Sixers: Who do you think should have Bowled the Last Over?
At the end of last night’s match between the Brisbane Heat and the Sydney Thunder, man-of-the-match Chris Lynn said “I knew they had to bring quicks back at the end so I had to be patient against the spin in the middle”. This confirms what we have said before about Lynn’s batting. Firstly, he is a… Read More »Chris Lynn, Spin Bowling and Team Selection. What can be done better?
The Brisbane Heat pulled off the heist of all heists by defeating the Sydney Thunder in tonight’s BBL encounter. Faced with a tricky chase of 158 on an equally tricky Sydney Showground wicket, the Heat melted to 67 for 6 after 11 overs – still 90 runs in arrears – and even the most optimistic of… Read More »Brisbane Heat – The Best T20 Come-from-behind Chase Ever?
Both sets of fans would have been on the edges of their seats going into the last over of last nights Big Bash match between the Strikers and the Heat. With 17 runs required and 6 wickets in hand, the match was seemingly in the balance. Cricmetric found 19 previous instances (across BBL, IPL and… Read More »Scintilating Steketee
Executive Summary While Cricmetric has a robust intra-game match win prediction model, the ability to forecast the winner of a T20 match prior to the game starting has for the most part been a case of “play and miss”. With the next version of the BBL just around the corner, we decided to conduct our… Read More »T20 Match Prediction Model
Has anyone else noticed that Nicholas Pooran is having a pretty good tournament in CPL 2016? Not yet 21 years of age Pooran, a wicket keeper batsman for the Barbados Tridents, is playing in his third CPL having debuted in 2013 for Trinidad and Tobago at the tender age of 17. And if what we… Read More »Pooran Pouring it on in CPL 2016
Australia’s Chris Lynn, the reigning BBL Player of the Tournament, is at it again this time in the CPL where he heads the run scorers list after eight innings. Despite this success, he is yet to make any significant impact in the IPL or at International level. In this article we take a look at… Read More »CPL Innovation Showcases Why Lynn is Ready for the IPL
Heading into last night’s second qualifying final, Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s head had a firm grip on the Purple Cap. The Purple Cap is awarded to the highest wicket taker in each IPL series and, barring Watson or Chahal taking a hatful of wickets on Sunday, Bhuvi will be the proud wearer of the Purple Cap for… Read More »Should it really be Bhuvi’s Purple Cap?
There is no arguing that Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have been in dynamic form for RCB in IPL2016. With RCB scheduled to play just one more game in the group stage this year, we take a look at how Kohli and AB have stacked up against each other in IPL2016, as well as wondering if… Read More »Kohli and de Villiers IPL2016