ICC World Research Articles

A Study on Performance of Cricket Players using Factor Analysis Approach

In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the performance of Cricket Players using Factor Analysis technique. For this , the dataset of 85 batsmen, 85 bowlers; and 95 batsmen, 95 bowlers have been considered from IPL9, 2016 (20 overs) and ICC World Cup, 2015 (50 overs) respectively, and the findings of this study reveals that batting capability dominates over bowling capability which is in conformity with an earlier study on same kind of game. Keywords: Factor Analysis, World Cup, IPL, Cricket.

Figuring out the statistics of the ICC World Cup 2011

AbstractThis paper deals with the analysis of cricket match results from the ICC World Cup 2011. We believe that such data provide good material for interesting classroom exercises.

Cricket as nationalist obsession: ICC World Cup 2011 and Bangladesh as a host nation

Bangladesh shares a common South Asian cricket culture with the subcontinental Big Threes – India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – in the new century. Moreover, cricket acts as a great leveller in Bangladeshi society ridden with political dissension and socio-communal tension. The performance of Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup and its impact on the everyday life of Bangladesh constituted a critical juncture in the transformation of cricket from a cultural passion to a nationalist obsession. In the course of the next four years, Bangladesh matured more as a cricketing nation, and cricket has become its only secular religion. While the country has not registered any noticeable progress in sports in general, its performance in international cricket, especially in one-day cricket, improved much, albeit without consistency. This article examines the impact of this improvement upon the national culture of Bangladesh and consequent changes in her cricket culture. The hosting of the 2011 World Cup provided an opportunity to the nation to showcase both its maturity and potential as a cultural destination as well as a cricketing nation in terms of performance and culture. This article will try to show how Bangladesh rose up to the occasion to assert its identity at the international stage despite the complex impact of the event on its polity, society and economy.

Analysis of team performances at the ICC World Twenty20 Cup 2009

Cricket has evolved in recent years and has resulted in the emergence of Twenty20 cricket. We examined the batting, bowling and fielding variables associated with success in cricket in the recent Twenty20 World Cup. We compared several key batting and bowling variables of winning and non-winning teams by comparing the magnitudes of differences (Cohen’s effect size). We established several moderate or large differences between winning and losing teams with respect to batting, bowling and fielding variables. The best indicators of success in the tournament can be broken down into general match, batting and fielding variables. The top 5 indicators for success in the tournament were losing less wickets in the game (ES= −1.66), losing less wickets in the powerplay while batting (ES= −1.22), scoring more runs per over (ES= 1.23), scoring more runs in the middle eight overs (ES= 0.86) and bowling more dot balls (ES= 1.15). Thus it could be concluded that for overall success in Twenty20 cricket, teams should focus on taking wickets and bowling dot balls whilst fielding, and implementing tactics that encourage 50+ partnerships and boundary hitting batsmen whilst batting.