Outdoor Stats

This week's question sprouted from an email conversation about last weeks stats. People were getting stuck into their batting partners about strike farming, and Gareth decided that it's perfectly fine to claim more of the strike, so long as you are scoring plenty of runs from those balls. He therefore wanted to know about players' strike rates.

So let's check out strike rates, along with a few other stats that are usually associated with regular (outdoor) cricket, but have less meaning when examining the indoor version.

Strike Rate
First up is classic outdoor-cricket-style strike rate. Number of runs you score per 100 balls - not counting negative runs for getting out, not counting doubles for jackpot ball. Just the straight number of runs you accumulate in between getting out. The only thing different from the outdoor version is that is does count extras on to your score, and does count extras as a ball faced.

And G, it looks like you were right... asking about this stat did indeed come back to bite you.

Name	Balls	Runs	S/R
Brad	703	1470	209.1
Xavier	761	1384	181.9
Julian	617	1118	181.2
Rian	611	1051	172.0
Jake	602	993	165.0
Andy	702	1124	160.1
Gareth	617	945	153.2
Sanjit	611	824	134.9

And now we'll count "indoor strike rate" which counts negative runs and doubled runs. It's simply total career score compared to balls faced.

Name	Balls	Score	S/R
Brad	703	1070	152.2
Xavier	761	979	128.6
Julian	617	793	128.5
Rian	611	731	119.6
Jake	602	598	99.3
Gareth	617	610	98.9
Andy	702	610	86.9
Sanjit	611	424	69.4

Outdoor average

This is looking at the number of runs a batsman scores for each time he gets out. Once again, we are not counting negative runs for losing a wicket or doubled runs for jackpot balls; only counting the runs a batter accumulates between the fall of his own wickets.

Name	Runs	Wkts	Average
Brad	1234	77	16.03
Julian	943	62	15.21
Rian	924	62	14.90
Xavier	1140	78	14.62
Gareth	798	65	12.28
Andy	925	76	12.17
Jake	874	76	11.50
Sanjit	628	80	7.85

5-Wicket Hauls

The standard milesotne for bowlers to acheive in a single game is the 5-wicket-innings. Let's see how often that has happened for Popped Collars players in the indoor game.

Name	5WM
Gareth	5
Xavier	4
Andy	3
Brad	2
Jake	2
Rian	1
Josh	1
James	1

Batting milestones

With the bat, it's all about scoring multiples of 50 in the outdoor game. What about indoor... looking at 50s and 100s would give some very uninteresting stats. So I've chosen multiples of 10 as the benchmark. Starting at 20 - I don't think scoring 10 is much of an acheivement. For most people.

Name	20s	30s	40s	50s
Brad	30	13	4	-
Xavier	26	17	2	1
Julian	25	7	-	-
Rian	19	8	3	1
Jake	15	3	-	-
Andy	20	7	2	-
Gareth	15	3	1	-
Sanjit	8	1	-	-

Gareth's self-confidence booster

The question of the week this week, was very simple. Gareth began by asking which bowlers had taken the most wickets for our team, and was disappointed to learn that Xavier and Brad led the way, simply because they have played the most games.

And so the question was refined: Which bowler has the most wickets per over?

A simple question... and so I generalised it, and shall investigate a range of questions of the form

Who [does something] [most/least often] per [unit of time/cricket]?

1. Who takes the most wickets per over?
It quickly became apparent that Gareth had a good reason for asking his question... he wanted to make himself look good. Here's the table of results

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Who hits the most 7s per innings?
Here’s the sloggers. Or at least, the most successful sloggers. If only there were stats for ‘attempted 7s’

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Who faces the most balls per innings?
With this question we’re revealing the strike-hoggers. The people who face more than their fair share of the 32 balls each pair gets when they go in to bat.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Who gets the most extra turns at batting and bowling?
There were a few sceptics last week when Brad went back in to bat when we were a player short. And this stat gives justification to those people who can now see that our leader bowls and bats for missing players much more often than anyone else. Is this leading from the front and putting himself in the firing line – showing how it’s done with additional inspirational captains knocks? Or is it just abuse of power?