{"id":1266,"date":"2015-12-17T03:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2015-12-17T03:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T07:04:19","slug":"bbl-the-greatest-t20-show-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/bbl-the-greatest-t20-show-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"BBL: The Greatest T20 Show on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of BBL05, we thought we would take a quick peek to see how the BBL shapes up against its big brother, the IPL. The numbers suggest that while the BBL deserves to be rated among the best T20 tournaments in the world, the IPL remains the showcase tournament for fans wanting to see the big hits!<\/p>\n

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So the IPL gives us more runs per innings, more boundaries per over and more runs per non dot ball bowled. This is what the fans come to see in the shortest format of the game, isn\u2019t it? How does this picture look when viewed on an over by over basis?<\/p>\n

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So why is this so? Are the grounds smaller and\/or the outfields faster in the IPL? Is the bowling of better quality in the BBL? Is there an overall better quality of batsman in the IPL? It is well beyond the scope of this article to answer these questions with any degree of rigour. However we will show one more interesting view.<\/p>\n

What if we aggregated the stats of players who have faced more than 30 deliveries in each of the recent BBL and IPL tournaments, and compared their performances in the BBL against the IPL? If the bowlers were weaker in the IPL, wouldn\u2019t these players have better batting records in the IPL? If the grounds were smaller and\/or the outfields faster in India, then again, wouldn\u2019t the same group of batsmen have better batting records in the IPL? Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n

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The players who play in both the BBL and the IPL would absorb a fair portion of the overseas player quota. Since their records in both tournaments show no discernible difference, the difference observed when comparing the tournament statistics must be mainly due to the local players.<\/p>\n

Again there is no solid conclusion that can be made here, but one possibility is that if there is no significant difference in the quality of the bowling or the size\/pace of the grounds, is it that the quality and depth of the batting in the IPL is higher than the BBL?<\/p>\n

The correct answer to this is probably, \u201cwho cares?\u201d, as long as we get an exciting and eventful BBL05 starting on the 17th<\/sup>. Bring it on!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the eve of BBL05, we thought we would take a quick peek to see how the BBL shapes up against its big brother, the IPL. The numbers suggest that while the BBL deserves to be rated among the best T20 tournaments in the world, the IPL remains the showcase tournament for fans wanting to… Read More »BBL: The Greatest T20 Show on Earth?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}