Indian Cricket Team Research Articles

The 1983 Cricket World Cup Victory and its Cinematic Representation

Cricket, which is very popular in India and often treated as a religion, has had a profound impact on the nation’s collective consciousness. The sport has the power to unite millions of people, transcending boundaries, and differences. A significant moment in the history of Indian cricket that brought the entire nation together was the 1983 Cricket World Cup victory. The Indian cricket team, captained by Kapil Dev, achieved an improbable triumph, defeating the mighty West Indies in the final. This historic cricket victory has been etched in the memory of every cricket-loving Indian and served as an inspiration for generations to come. The remarkable journey of the 1983 World Cup has been revisited and celebrated in the Bollywood movie ‘83, directed by Kabir Khan in 2021. This research will delve into the historical significance of India’s first Cricket World Cup victory and how the movie ‘83 captures the essence of that remarkable moment. It also sheds light on the connection of Bollywood and Indian cricket and will try to touch on various aspects related to this.

A Bayesian perspective of middle-batting position in ODI cricket

The cricket fraternity described “an unsettled batting position of number four” as one of the major causes for India’s exit from International Cricket Council Men’s World Cup 2019. Consistent chopping and changing batsmen at the sensitive fourth batting position proved to be a disaster for team India then. Therefore, ranking of all the batsmen, in the then Indian cricket team, who were deemed to be eligible for this position remained a much-debated issue both before and after the World Cup 2019. In the present paper, Kaplan-Meir curves are used to make multiple comparisons for respective batting performances among the batsmen who have ever played in the middle order position. In this paper, frailty of these batsmen is studied through Bayesian analysis at the start of their innings and during the time-interval of transition to their best playing ability by considering respective run scores. Posterior summaries of innate player ability are obtained by deploying a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm which is then used to assess and compare the individual batting performances. Estimation of incomplete innings is handled via censoring strategies.

Selection of Indian Cricket Team in ODI using Integer Optimization

The selection criterion of a cricket team depends on so many factors like average, strike rate, consistency, economy rate, etc. For every factor, it may get a different team, but consistency plays an important role in the selection process. This paper outlines the selection process of players in the Indian Cricket Team for the ODI. A criterion is proposed for the evaluation of different factors on which the selection process can be done. This evaluation describes the consistent and inconsistent players and ranks of them. The players will be chosen at different categories like batsmen, bowler, all-rounder, and wicketkeeper. The evaluation mainly based on the consistency of the player. For this measure, integer optimization programming has been applied, and data has been taken from Jan 2015 to Sept 2017 of ODI matches.

Applying Association Rule Mining to Analyze the Performance of Indian Cricket Team in T20 Format

This paper discusses the application of Association Rule Mining for evaluating the performance of Indian Cricket Team specifically in the fastpaced T20 format. Data for the study has been obtained from multiple authentic secondary sources. Further, Indian Team’s performance in the said format is studied and association between relevant data points in cricket such as result of toss, home ground or away ground, order of innings, setting a target or chasing a target, match result has been considered. Knowledge thus gained from the rules aims at helping the stakeholders in devising a match winning approach. The results of the study indicate Indian Team’s upper hand in the T20 format and provides further insights into conditions in which India is likely to perform even better.

Played Out on the Edges of the Cricket Boundary: The History of an Indian Cricket Team in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 1934–1995

Cricket was a colonial export that permeated throughout most of the British Empire, including Zimbabwe. One of the colonised groups to take up cricket was the Indian migrant community in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. This article examines the history of the community’s sports club and its cricket players, exploring the evolution of the team from its espousal of settler-colonial values in the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, to the claiming of an Indian identity during the years of the Central African Federation, and finally towards an integration with independent Zimbabwe’s national sporting culture. It also argues that Indian representation in first-class cricket meant that international matches could become a space for Indian-Zimbabwean cricketing fans to express either national or transnational identities in the teams they chose to support, transgressing the limits of a single national identity. But just as Indians entered the country’s consciousness as citizens of the post-colonial state, the brief moment that had allowed them space in a multiracial civic society was cut off. In the conflict between black and white, Indians were once again rendered invisible.

An optimized feature selection technique based on incremental feature analysis for bio-metric gait data classification

The classification of humanoid locomotion is a troublesome exercise because of non-linearity associate with gait signals. The classification using the different machine learning technique leads for over fitting and under fitting. To select the optimized feature is a difficult task. The high dimension feature vector requires a high computational cost. The hand craft feature selection machine learning techniques performed poor. We have used the incremental feature selection strategy for feature selection. In this paper we first selected the feature and identify the principle feature then we classify gait data using different machine learning technique (KNN, ANN, SVM, DNN and classifier fusion) and shown the performance comparison. Experimental result on real time datasets propose method is better than previous method as far as humanoid locomotion classification is concerned and the generalization accuracy provided by new feature selection method i.e. incremental feature selection (IFS) with analysis of variance (ANOVA) (Zhang et al., 20). During the feature extraction, 17 features were selected from the existing literatures (Wang et al. in IEEE Trans Circ Syst Video Technol 14(2):149–158, 15). Using all the features could lead to over fitting, information redundancy and dimension disaster. Thus, a system with optimal features was selected using ANOVA combined with IFA. These selected features were then fed as an input to the ANN, SVM, KNN and DNN model. These individual classifiers were combined to produce classifier fusion model. The 5-fold cross-validation was used to evaluate the performance of the proposed model. Based on the empirical results it may be concluded that classifier fusion provides satisfactory results (92.23 %) compared to other individual classifiers. One-way analysis of variance test, Friedman’s test and Kruskal-Wallis test has also been conducted to validate the statistical significance of the results. The proposed system can be used as recommender system based on behavioral gait pattern about the performance of player of Indian cricket team, Biometric and help to diagnosis Parkinson disease.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni: A Case Study in Leadership

This case is about the charismatic present captain of the Indian national cricket team (in short format) Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The case outlines the emergence of Dhoni as a leader, exploration of his leadership style through his journey of spectacular rises and controversies. Dhoni became the captain of the team in 2007, and soon became the most successful captain in the history of Indian cricket. The case talks about how a small town boy emerged as a tall star in the midst of giants like Sachin, Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. A big part of India's turnaround from a bunch of straggling individuals to an aggressive and consistent combination has to do with Dhoni's leadership. Dhoni has a couple of admirable attributes as a leader. The players believe in him and he remains as calm as light air. He has carried TeamIndia to victory so many times by keeping his head and hitting judiciously that the team believe he can indeed perform miracles. This is the type of mentally strong performance that engenders great loyalty and inspires players to give everything they have got for the captain. Team India blossoms under his Captaincy. The case also discusses his announcement of retirement from test cricket and the stunning mount during the recent world cup.

Estimating the hazard functions of two alternately occurring recurrent events

Often two recurrent events of equal importance can occur alternately. The life-time patterns of the two events can then be of considerable interest. In this paper, we consider two such events, the inclusion and exclusion of players in a team sport, and study whether there is any inherent pattern in the time-lengths between these events. The life-time distributions are modelled and methods of estimating the model parameters suggested taking into account any relationship in the pattern of recurrence. The results are then applied to the inclusion and exclusion of players in the Indian national cricket team. As further illustration, a simulation study is made. Broad application areas are identified both in the introduction and conclusion.

Epidemiology of Orthopedic Injuries in Indian Cricket: A Prospective One Year Observational Study

ABSTRACT Introduction The understanding of cricket related injuries is still in its infancy in India with very limited surveillance data published from the subcontinent. Objective This is a prospective observational study on the epidemiology of orthopedic injuries in Indian cricket players. Materials and methods This study included cricketers of an elite North Indian cricket team. The study covered a period of 1 year, comprising one playing season and one off season. The player types were categorized by Orchard's injury definitions, and the term ‘All Rounder’ was introduced. Results Ninety-five male players who fulfilled inclusion criteria sustained 48 significant and 12 insignificant injuries. Injury incidence documented by us (3.27 per 10,000 hours of play) was significantly lower than Australian figures (24.2 injuries/10,000 playing hours). These players did not have any ‘off day’ from the game, leading to limited rest, which was different from international standards. Bowlers sustained the most severe injuries, specifically of the lower limb, while fielders had increased risk of sustaining upper limb injury. Fast bowlers had increased risk of sustaining back trauma. Injuries were also sustained during practice and due to poor ground conditions. Conclusion Orchard's internationally accepted definitions of cricket injury need to be modified for the Indian scenario, where ‘off days’ are not observed, and many injuries which keep players from the game occur in unsupervised practice. This may influence overall incidence and prevalence rates. How to cite this article Dhillon MS, Soni RK, Aggarwal S, Dhillon H, Prabhakar S. Epidemiology of Orthopedic Injuries in Indian Cricket: A Prospective One Year Observational Study. J Postgrad Med Edu Res 2015;49(4):168-172.

‘Exotic, mysterious creatures’ and ‘road warriors’: Australian perceptions of touring Indian cricket teams, 1947–2012

In attempting to define and explain the nature of the connections between Australia and India since the Second World War, Australian politicians, academics and journalists alike have frequently observed that, whatever the ebbs and flows in the relationship, cricket has provided the one consistent link. However, even if we accept that when Australians thought of India, they most often thought in terms of cricket, what then was the nature of their imaginings, and how were they formed? This article seeks to address these questions about the nature of Australians’ perceptions of Indian cricketers – and, by extension, of India itself – through a thematic survey of local accounts of Indian cricket tours as published in the popular press and the writings of sports journalists and cricketers.Despite a brief surge of enthusiastic diplomatic and political cooperation between Jawaharlal Nehru’s new government and the Chifley Labour administration following Indian independence in 1947, India rarely figured in the popular Australian consciousness in the following decades as an obsession with the advance of communism in Southeast Asia dominated the interests of conservative prime minister Menzies and his successors. An Indian cricket team toured Australia in the summer of 1947–1948, but even the cricketing connection was a tenuous one. Indian cricket was obliged to wait for 20 years for another invitation, in 1967–1968, and then for 10 years until 1977–1978 to properly enter the Australian imaginary. As Indian teams showed themselves to have become more competitive during the 1980s, visits became more regular, particularly as Australian authorities recognized India’s rise as international cricket’s financial powerhouse and the financial benefits to be gained from a closer relationship. With a series of bitterly fought Test matches over the past decade, India has come to challenge England’s place as Australia’s greatest rival in the mind of the local cricket community.Australian commentaries on the early tours initially borrowed heavily from an orientalist rhetoric of racial stereotypes, drawn in turn from a British imperial vocabulary that constructed Indian cricketers in terms of artistry, magic and inspired brilliance, on the one hand, and as lethargic and lacking in physical strength and endurance on the other. These images were challenged, though not entirely displaced, during the latter decades of the century as the Australian media registered a growing awareness of a new type of Indian cricketer, the globalized sportsman driven by a ruthless, ‘win-at-all-costs’ mentality. Orientalist judgements however continued to persist, even in the Australian press coverage of recent tours, spilling over into contemporary Australian perceptions of Indian modernity.

IN PRAISE OF PARSIS

There has been a catastrophic decline in the numbers of India's vultures, on which the Parsis once depended for the disposal of their dead. Parsi numbers are falling too. Their community represents only 0.0005 per cent of the population of the Indian subcontinent, yet they have made such a mark in so many walks of life. Could Zoroastrian culture explain their disproportionate success? Parsi shipbuilders built frigates of Malabar teak for the British Navy and the EIC, Parsis provided the brains behind India's nuclear programme, the backbone of India's manufacturing industry and such international musical icons as Zubin Mehta and Freddie Mercury, as well as the first Asian MPs at Westminster and the first Indian cricket team to tour England,. Parsi merchant-princes made fortunes in the opium trade yet rivalled Andrew Carnegie in their philanthropy.

An examination of the impact of India's performance in one-day cricket internationals on the Indian stock market

This study examines the impact of the Indian cricket team's performance in one day international cricket matches on returns on the Indian stock market. The main conclusion of the study is that there exists an asymmetric relationship between the performance of the Indian cricket team and stock returns on the Indian stock market. While a win by the Indian cricket team has no statistically significant upward impact on stock market returns, a loss generates a significant downward movement in the stock market. When Sachin Tendulker, India's most popular cricketer, plays the size of the downward movement in returns is larger.

Different hats, different thinking? Technocracy, globalization and the Indian cricket team

This essay analyses the public debate and the controversies surrounding Australian ex-Test cricketer Greg Chappell during his tenure as coach of the Indian cricket team between 2005 and 2007. It uses the media discourse on Chappell to delineate emerging trends in Indian cricket culture in the context of contemporary Indian society, globalization and relations between East and West within the global economy. Chappell's tenure as coach of Team India emerged as an important marker in the evolution of a global cricket technocracy which flattens out, or threatens to flatten out, what have been perceived as historic differences between national cricket cultures.

Nationalist Romance to Postcolonial Sport: Cricket in 2006 India

While nineteenth- and twentieth-century cricket owed much to the pragmatism, enthusiasm and energy of the English empire builders, decolonization and the rise of postcolonial nation states since the 1980s have heralded a fundamental transformation in the character of the sport. In the modern cricket world, the Indians lead; the others follow. This paper argues that cricket in 2006 India is close to being labelled a truly postcolonial sport. On the one hand, it has severed all linkages with the colonial past. And on the other it contributes to identifying and remedying some of the problems plaguing contemporary Indian society. Come Cricket World Cup 2007 and cricket mania will takeover an otherwise sane country and cricket commerce will be at an all-time high. While an early loss will lead to widespread dejection, vandalism and public wrath, a win will be marked by hysterical celebrations all round. This is because the fortunes of the Indian cricket team encapsulate the story of postcolonial India in microcosm; a tapestry permanently being woven around the performance of 11 men who carry on their shoulders the demands of a billion.

West Indian Literary History: Literariness, Orality and Periodization

main subjects in this presentation are orality in West Indian writing, and periodization in the constructing of a comparative history of Caribbean literatures in European languages. A proper approach to any comparison requires that each of the things to be compared should be seen as itself first. There are, moreover, practical reasons for beginning with an attempt to define or declare some of the main features and elements of what is called West Indian Literature. In the free-for-all that followed Columbus's accidental entry to the New World, the Caribbean area was carved up and shared out, and then shared over and over again by the European powers. Although there have been new cultural and linguistic influences and new political realities since the decline of the Empires, we still think of these places as French-, Dutch-, English-, or Spanish-speaking. On the surface, at any rate, each of these groups continues to use a variant of the language of the colonizer. When the English-speaking territories formed themselves into a political federation in 1959, the name chosen for the nation-to-be was The West Indies. federation broke up almost at once, but the name has remained to signal a reality stronger than any political institution. Three cultural institutions exist to keep alive the federal idea: the University of the West Indies, the all-conquering West Indian cricket team, and West Indian literature.