chewy Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Akash got this wrong, yeah maybe state of Zimbabwe cricket isn’t like 20 years ago, but he should question why Zimbabwe put up effectively their B team against a full strength Test and CT winners? This Zim side is missing nearly 8-9 of its regular first team players not to mention the ICC WC Qualifier 2018 Man of Series, S Raza bet you Afg or Bangla would have put out near full strength team vs Pak, even if it was meaninglesss series Link to comment
Khota Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Clarke said: And that's why averages aren't the be all and end all of cricketing or sporting excellence. Sport in general provides plenty of variance and cricket is among the top of those. There wouldn't be a cricket forum if averages were so absolute. If one starts weighted averages, there will be no end to variables; for instance we've seen wind direction make the difference between a six and a catch. I understand in International matches it is hard to take variance into account. That is why the only stats I agree is IPL. That evens it out upto some extent. Only thing that should count in cricket is the number of championships and nothing else. Link to comment
Khota Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 4 hours ago, Gollum said: Unnecessary comment from him, these things get evened out over a long career. Even past ATGs boosted their stats against minnows, nothing new here. No they don't. Link to comment
Khota Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Trichromatic said: Yes, and while weak opposition can inflate figures, no one gets long career stats just by bullying weak opposition. Playing weak opposition does impact the career stats too. Link to comment
Khota Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 4 hours ago, Trichromatic said: Reminds me of this @Ankit_sharma03 Harbhajan was right. Ashwin count was inflted by overly spin friendly wickets. Kumble and Harbhajan were going against each other but Ashwin had no spinner competition so his count is inflated. Dont forget Ashwin was the worst bowler in CT. Link to comment
Khota Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Akash has it right. Cricket is doing stats wrong from beginning. Another crap is not outs. Talk about run inflation. Link to comment
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