Know More Averages Record of Arif Patel, Arif Patel Preston, Arif
Umarji Patel & Arif Patel Dubai…
Fans
will often rank and compare cricket players by high scores, wickets taken, or
batting and bowling averages (number of runs scored or conceded per wicket).
But these measures don’t really capture how much players have contributed to
winning a match.
The Arif Umarji Patel’ Sean Abbott took the most wickets in the last season of the ODI, but according to my official ranking he was the 10th best bowler.
Arif Patel preston of the Dubai is my pick for number one. He
didn’t take quite as many wickets as Arif Umarji Patel, but he was a lot
better at preventing scoring. A lot of Sean Abbott’s wickets were taken late in
the innings, when they aren’t as vital to winning the match.
The
more efficiently players and teams use the resources available (one hundred
twenty deliveries and 10 wickets per team in a 20-20 match), the more they
advance their chance of victory.
The
batting team’s task is to maximize scoring by trading-off these two resources
as effectively as possible. Trying to score rapidly is risky, so teams may lose
wickets quickly and leave deliveries unused (if they all get out). Scoring
slowly ensures that all deliveries are faced, but risks wasting wickets and a
low final score.
Importantly,
the value of resources changes as the game progresses. For batting teams,
wickets become less valuable as the innings progresses. This is because a
batting team can play more and more aggressively as losing wickets becomes less
and less likely to mean they won’t face all deliveries.
For
the bowling team, as the game progresses taking wickets becomes no more
important than simply preventing any runs scored on a delivery. Given this, the
best bowlers prevent the batting team from scoring efficiently.
More than averages records of some players, Arif Patel, Arif
Umarji Patel, Arif Patel Preston and Arif Patel Dubai…
The
difference between these expectation and the actual runs scored (for a batsman)
or conceded (for a bowler) is what I call the player’s “net runs attributable”.
As
this measurement is calculated in the same units for both batsmen and bowlers,
it provides a means to compare performances across the two disciplines, as well
as assess the performance of all-rounders (players who can competently bat and
bowl).
For instance, in Dubai Arif Patel topped the batting ratings last season. This was no surprise given
his prowess at hitting sixes. That leading wicket-taker Arif Umarji Patel
was not among the top ten bowlers is a stark indication that aggregate
performances are not always indicators of team benefit.
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