It was India’s chance for a redemption after getting white-washed in the Test series against England. In the end, they put up a good fight, but still fell short of victory. They were clearly 15-20 runs short in the first innings, and the following win probability graph says it all: The win probability of India… Read More »Game recap: England vs India, only Twenty20, Old Trafford
In the fourth one-day game between West Indies and India, Andre Russell achieved the amazing feat of accumulating over 1 win probability added in a single one-day game. While achieving a win probability added of more than 1 is definitely possible – at least in theory, it has never been done by a player for… Read More »Russell accumulates 1+ WPA in one game
After a long time, it was good to see West Indies fighting it out in a one-day game, and make their opponent struggle, in the third one-day match against India. However, it looked anything but a fight from West Indies at the start of the match: they had lost 7 wickets by the 30th over… Read More »West Indies finally show some fight
Game graph Turning point: The last two over were where the game decisively turned in the favor of Chennai Super Kings. At the end of the 18th over, Chennai still needed 33 runs off 12 balls, and the win probability was 0. 10 balls later, Chennai stunned Bangalore, thanks to the clutch batting of Albie… Read More »Game review: Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore : Match 71 : Qualifier 1
Now that the league phase 2011 has ended (and the playoffs have just started), it is the right time to have a look at the best players in this year’s IPL so far. We use the Win Probability Added as the metric for ranking the players. The WPA score can change between now and the… Read More »The best players of IPL 2011
This game was the first of the knockouts in the IPL ( Kings XI would be knocked out if it lost) and we would have expected a close game. Alas it turned out to be a one-sided affair. DC were in charge all the time. Here is what our model had to say about the… Read More »Game review: Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab : Match 67
Game graph Turning point: In the 17th over of the first innings, the win probability of Mumbai Indians peaked at 0.63. With two overs still left and Pollard on the crease, a few big hits could have easily taken Mumbai past 150, which would still have been a competitive score. But Watson bowled Pollard with… Read More »Game review: Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Match 66
Game graph Turning point : Overs 6.4 – 8. Three wickets fell in the span of 9 deliveries and 0 runs scored. Amit Mishra bowled a double-wicket maiden over, and the win probability fell from 0.4167 to 0.1787 in this over. It went all downhill for the Warriors after that. Star performer : Amit Mishra.… Read More »Game review: Pune Warriors vs Deccan Chargers : Match 62
Starting from today, we will be a doing a new series daily on the recap of the remaining IPL games. This will be a more unconventional recap of the game, using the advanced metrics that we have developed. The recap will have the following three sections: Turning point : This will focus on the particular… Read More »Game review: Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils : Match 60
… Bhargav Bhatt in the Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians game, for taking an “amazing” haul of 4 tail enders. Bhatt’s wickets had little to contribute to Punjab’s victory: By the time he had picked up his first wicket, the win probability of Mumbai Indians was already down to almost zero – which means… Read More »And the most useless man of the match award goes to ….