yorkr ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers
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Here is a short post which ranks IPL batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. Ranking batsmen and bowlers in IPL is more challenging as the players can belong to different teams in different years. Hence I create a combined data frame of the batsmen and bowlers regardless of their IPL teams and calculate a) average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and c) average wickets and d) average economy rate for bowlers.
I will be doing this ranking for T20 and ODI batting and bowling performances shortly.
This post has also been published in RPubs RankIPLPlayers. You can download this as a pdf file at RankIPLPlayers.pdf.
You can take a look at the code at rankIPLPlayers (should be available in yorkr_0.0.5)
The results are slightly surprising
rm(list=ls())
library(yorkr)
library(dplyr)
setwd("C:/software/cricket-package/cricsheet/cleanup/IPL/rank")
source("rankIPLBatsmen.R")
source("rankIPLBowlers.R")
Rank IPL batsmen
Chris Gayle, MEK Hussey and Shane Watson are top 3 IPL batsmen. Gayle towers over the others in mean runs and mean strike rate. Surprisingly Ajinkya Rahane is the top Indian T20 batsman, if we leave out Sachin Tendulkar (who tops India yet again!). The other top IPL T20 batsmen are Raina, Gambhir, Rohit Sharma in that order. Virat Kohli comes a distant 14th.
iplBatsmanRank <- rankIPLBatsmen() as.data.frame(iplBatsmanRank[1:30,]) ## batsman matches meanRuns meanSR ## 1 CH Gayle 128 40.00781 144.92188 ## 2 MEK Hussey 64 33.57812 107.23500 ## 3 SR Watson 75 31.46667 129.97733 ## 4 SR Tendulkar 127 29.74803 108.86622 ## 5 AM Rahane 77 29.14286 101.40065 ## 6 DA Warner 134 29.10448 118.38313 ## 7 JP Duminy 94 28.77660 124.61702 ## 8 SK Raina 128 28.62500 122.12656 ## 9 G Gambhir 210 28.13810 108.78090 ## 10 RG Sharma 181 28.07182 118.57801 ## 11 DR Smith 78 27.82051 119.64462 ## 12 BB McCullum 98 27.81633 114.91255 ## 13 S Dhawan 109 27.74312 112.21000 ## 14 V Kohli 188 27.56915 113.81261 ## 15 AB de Villiers 150 27.46000 136.70860 ## 16 R Dravid 104 27.02885 107.78923 ## 17 JH Kallis 167 26.54491 94.65641 ## 18 V Sehwag 174 26.39655 140.29011 ## 19 RV Uthappa 166 26.27711 120.48506 ## 20 SC Ganguly 86 25.98837 96.39849 ## 21 AC Gilchrist 81 25.77778 122.69074 ## 22 KC Sangakkara 70 25.67143 112.97529 ## 23 MS Dhoni 119 25.29412 130.99832 ## 24 TM Dilshan 82 24.13415 101.12634 ## 25 M Vijay 96 23.92708 102.01771 ## 26 AT Rayudu 146 23.63014 117.91000 ## 27 DPMD Jayawardene 109 22.95413 110.73862 ## 28 MK Pandey 105 22.71429 NA ## 29 Yuvraj Singh 112 22.48214 114.51018 ## 30 S Badrinath 66 22.22727 114.97061
Rank IPL bowlers
The top 3 IPL T20 bowlers are SL Malinga,SP Narine and DJ Bravo.
Don’t get hung up on the decimals in the average wickets for the bowlers. All it implies is that if 2 bowlers have average wickets of 1.0 and 1.5, it implies that in 2 matches the 1st bowler will take 2 wickets and the 2nd bowler will take 3 wickets.
iplBowlersRank <- rankIPLBowlers() as.data.frame(iplBowlersRank[1:30,]) ## bowler matches meanWickets meanER ## 1 SL Malinga 96 1.645833 6.545208 ## 2 SP Narine 54 1.555556 5.967593 ## 3 DJ Bravo 58 1.517241 7.929310 ## 4 M Morkel 37 1.405405 7.626216 ## 5 IK Pathan 40 1.400000 7.579250 ## 6 RP Singh 42 1.357143 7.966429 ## 7 MM Patel 31 1.354839 7.282581 ## 8 Shakib Al Hasan 32 1.343750 6.911250 ## 9 R Vinay Kumar 63 1.317460 8.342540 ## 10 MM Sharma 46 1.304348 7.740652 ## 11 P Awana 33 1.303030 8.325758 ## 12 MM Patel 30 1.300000 7.569667 ## 13 Z Khan 41 1.292683 7.735854 ## 14 A Mishra 43 1.255814 7.226512 ## 15 PP Ojha 53 1.245283 7.268679 ## 16 JP Faulkner 40 1.225000 8.502250 ## 17 DS Kulkarni 32 1.156250 8.372188 ## 18 UT Yadav 46 1.152174 8.394783 ## 19 A Kumble 41 1.146341 6.567073 ## 20 JA Morkel 73 1.136986 8.131370 ## 21 SK Warne 53 1.132075 7.277170 ## 22 Harbhajan Singh 107 1.102804 7.014953 ## 23 L Balaji 34 1.088235 7.186176 ## 24 R Ashwin 92 1.065217 6.812391 ## 25 AR Patel 31 1.064516 7.137097 ## 26 M Muralitharan 39 1.051282 6.470256 ## 27 P Kumar 36 1.027778 8.148056 ## 28 PP Chawla 85 1.023529 8.017765 ## 29 SR Watson 67 1.014925 7.695224 ## 30 DJ Bravo 30 1.000000 7.966333
Conclusion: The results are somewhat surprising. The ranking was based on data from Cricsheet. The data in this site are available from 2008-2015. I hope to do this ranking for T20 and ODIs shortly
Watch this space!
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