yorkr ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers
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Here is another short post which ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on
- average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and
- average wickets and average economy rate for bowlers.
This post has also been published in RPubs RankT20Players. You can download this as a pdf file at RankT20Players.pdf.
You can take a look at the code at rankT20Players (available in yorkr_0.0.5)
rm(list=ls())
library(yorkr)
library(dplyr)
source("rankT20Batsmen.R")
source("rankT20Bowlers.R")
Rank T20 batsmen
Virat Kohli (Ind), Chris Gayle (WI) and Kevin Pietersen (Eng) top the T20 rankings. Virat Kohli stands tall among the batsmen with a average of 39.1935, followed by Chris Gayle who has an average of 32.69 and finally Kevin Pietersen.
Note: For T20 a cutoff of at least 30 matches played was chosen.
T20BatsmanRank <- rankT20Batsmen() as.data.frame(T20BatsmanRank[1:30,]) ## batsman matches meanRuns meanSR ## 1 V Kohli 31 39.19355 128.8371 ## 2 CH Gayle 43 32.69767 119.6467 ## 3 KP Pietersen 37 32.43243 138.6732 ## 4 KS Williamson 31 32.25806 130.1255 ## 5 Mohammad Shahzad 33 31.66667 115.4582 ## 6 BB McCullum 69 30.98551 126.0610 ## 7 MJ Guptill 54 30.83333 120.0669 ## 8 AD Hales 37 30.75676 115.3511 ## 9 H Masakadza 38 29.26316 109.6182 ## 10 GC Smith 32 27.59375 114.1831 ## 11 DA Warner 56 27.53571 123.2209 ## 12 JP Duminy 58 26.84483 117.3952 ## 13 DPMD Jayawardene 51 26.47059 112.4257 ## 14 SR Watson 50 26.30000 118.9464 ## 15 KC Sangakkara 52 26.23077 112.4665 ## 16 TM Dilshan 66 26.18182 102.5683 ## 17 SK Raina 43 25.90698 124.3044 ## 18 RG Sharma 41 25.68293 123.3983 ## 19 G Gambhir 36 25.66667 117.5764 ## 20 Yuvraj Singh 41 25.12195 119.5846 ## 21 Misbah-ul-Haq 32 25.09375 106.6762 ## 22 EJG Morgan 52 24.71154 121.1462 ## 23 MN Samuels 40 24.35000 105.8547 ## 24 MEK Hussey 30 24.03333 129.1250 ## 25 Ahmed Shehzad 41 23.82927 100.8805 ## 26 Shakib Al Hasan 40 23.35000 109.3798 ## 27 HM Amla 30 23.33333 111.2513 ## 28 CL White 45 22.73333 NA ## 29 LMP Simmons 33 22.54545 NA ## 30 Umar Akmal 69 22.20290 108.3590
Rank T20 bowlers
The top 3 T20 bowlers are BAW Mendis (SL) Umar Gul (Pak) and Steyn(SA). R Ashwin is 13th. As with batsmen, a minimum of 30 matches played was taken into consideration.
T20BowlersRank <- rankT20Bowlers() as.data.frame(T20BowlersRank[1:30,]) ## bowler matches meanWickets meanER ## 1 BAW Mendis 36 1.6944444 6.581111 ## 2 Umar Gul 57 1.5964912 7.306842 ## 3 DW Steyn 38 1.5526316 6.407632 ## 4 Saeed Ajmal 63 1.4920635 6.316190 ## 5 SL Malinga 59 1.4576271 7.163898 ## 6 TG Southee 37 1.4054054 8.840000 ## 7 MG Johnson 30 1.4000000 7.080667 ## 8 GP Swann 38 1.3947368 6.576842 ## 9 JW Dernbach 33 1.3636364 8.550303 ## 10 M Morkel 39 1.3333333 7.384872 ## 11 Shakib Al Hasan 37 1.2972973 6.648649 ## 12 SP Narine 32 1.2500000 5.757812 ## 13 R Ashwin 33 1.2424242 7.247273 ## 14 KMDN Kulasekara 42 1.2380952 6.938095 ## 15 SCJ Broad 55 1.2363636 7.832182 ## 16 WD Parnell 34 1.2058824 8.227941 ## 17 KD Mills 41 1.1951220 8.077317 ## 18 DL Vettori 34 1.1470588 5.708235 ## 19 Shahid Afridi 85 1.1294118 6.748000 ## 20 SR Watson 44 1.1136364 8.015227 ## 21 Sohail Tanvir 48 1.1041667 7.354167 ## 22 Sohail Tanvir 48 1.1041667 7.354167 ## 23 NL McCullum 56 1.0535714 7.246964 ## 24 NLTC Perera 34 1.0294118 8.916471 ## 25 J Botha 39 1.0256410 6.647436 ## 26 DJ Bravo 45 1.0222222 8.630000 ## 27 Mohammad Nabi 32 0.9687500 7.208437 ## 28 DJG Sammy 55 0.8909091 7.899818 ## 29 Mohammad Hafeez 56 0.8392857 6.996964 ## 30 AD Mathews 44 0.7954545 6.827727
Conclusion
Conclusion
As expected Virat Kohli stands head and shoulders above the rest. Hamid Hasan and Mohammed Shami figuring the top T20 bowlers was a bit of a surprise to me.
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