Analysts and researchers
Cricket since 2001, one delivery a row
11.7 million deliveries from 2001, men's and women's, in every format, with a player id that follows each person across competitions.
Cricket's interesting questions are about phases and matchups: the powerplay, the death overs, a left-armer against a leg-spinner.
Scorecards cannot answer them. They need the delivery, with who bowled to whom and what happened.
What to build
Phases of an innings
Split any batter or bowler into the powerplay, the middle overs and the death, with strike rate, economy and dot-ball share for each.
Batter against bowler
Every ball between two players across every format and competition, because one id follows each of them everywhere.
Venues and tosses
Scoring at a ground by innings, and what winning the toss and choosing to bat or field has done to the result.
What it will not do
- No ball length, line, speed or shot direction: the record is what happened, not where the ball pitched.
- No tracking or video data.
- Batting hand and bowling style are not recorded, so left-arm against right-arm splits need another source.
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