ACA Chief Executive Alistair Nicholson has made comment on the connection between the annual cricket injury report, released today, and the upcoming packed international schedule. Who are the most consistent players in Test history The Cricket Monthly. Measuring the consistency of Test players has always been a tough proposition. The statistical methods normally followed give us results that are seemingly fine but prove unsatisfactory in the end. Let me give a simple example. Beyond the Boundary Corinne Hall The student to become the teacher as Alicia goes Beyond the Boundary Beyond the Boundary Adam Voges Beyond the Boundary Jason. Womens Cricket News Views. Game Set Match With two games played, the Australians are already 40 up in this Womens Ashes series, so assuming all matches. StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1a5ecm.png/1456970528009.jpg' alt='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' title='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' />Batsman A has scores of 5. There is no doubt that he is a statisticians delight and the epitome of consistency. Batsman B has scores of 1. He is a thoroughly inconsistent player and no one knows which B will turn up on the day. However, it is eminently possible that his two hundreds have contributed to wins for his team. The real problem is that if we post a high statistical variance on Batsman B and brand him inconsistent, it goes against cricketing logic. Allan Border Cricket Game Full' title='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' />In a pure cricketing sense, all scores above the mean value are always welcome and should not have a negative impact on the consistency values. The other problem is that in almost all score distributions, the mean runs per innings is around 1. The distribution is always lopsided. No Limits Coaster there. If a batsman plays 1. He is likely to have 3. We must realise that 0 and 2. However, the 2. 00, while it may be four times the mean, should not be penalised. The variance component for the 0 is 5. I have done a lot of work using an innings or a Test as the unit of analysis. While the results have been acceptable, I have always felt that this was a riddle waiting to be solved. How does one arrive at a method to measure consistency keeping in mind the cricketing context The thinking has to be out of the box that much is certain. Finally, I think I have the answer. I came across this idea when I did work on performance streaks for players. I realised that a streak of X inningsspellsTests gave me a well defined block of player activity to work with. After a lot of trials and evaluations, I have come up with the following methodology. The cornerstone of this analysis is that consistency should only be measured using data of the player being considered. A batting average of 4. Herbert Sutcliffe, while the same average might be way above the par performance of Ian Botham. Hence, we will measure the consistency of each player against the overall career standards he has himself set. It should be noted that the statistics in this piece are as of Test No. Colombo Test between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, which swung between the two teams so many times that the participants and followers never knew where they were at any given point of time. Muttiah Muralitharan No. Test wicket takers, but No. Methodology. The basic unit of measure will be blocks of ten innings or spells. By spell, I mean a bowlers total number of overs in an innings, not a continuous bowling stint, as understood normally. A batsman of great talent and enormous ambition, Michael Clarke emerged in Australias golden years, was with them through the troughs that followed, and eventually. NJSBCL Player Promise Cricket places the responsibility of fair play on me. I promise to abide by the rules, give the benefit of the doubt to my opponents and. Official cricket live scores, live scores, cricket scores, cricket scorecards, Test scores, ODI scores, T20 scores, BBL scores, IPL scores, World Cup scores. A block of ten is long enough to represent between five and eight Tests over about three to six months. This allows a player the opportunity to make up for failures, bad decisions, bad luck, unplayable balls and so on in other inningsspells within the block. The blocks traverse homeaway Tests, series, opponents, and even years. EB5000005DC-642_468x306.jpg' alt='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' title='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' />Therefore, there is no inbuilt bias. Why ten, why not eight or 1. No particular reason ten represents an easily workable unit. I have made trial runs with eight or 1. Allan Border Cricket Game Full' title='Allan Border Cricket Game Full' />There are only minor variations in the results. The majority of the players stay in their respective areas. An innings is established when the batsman faces a ball and a spell is recorded when the bowler bowls a ball. This may seem unfair if a batsman scores 5 not out or a bowler bowls three wicketless overs. However, these things even out across ten inningsspells. The cut offs are 3. In all, 1. 84 batsmen and 1. The minimum number of blocks for batsmen is eight and for bowlers it is four. Do I measure the player performance against an imaginary norm No, this is a method to measure a players consistency and all comparisons have to be within the players ambit. Performance analyses should be across players but consistency analyses should be within the career of the concerned player. Descargar Software Mp9 Gratis there. What is the base performance we work with We will take the career figures of the player and determine the average runs scored in ten innings or wickets taken in ten spells. For batsmen, the question of batting average does not arise. Instead, the actual runs per innings will be used. How would above average performances be handledIf the mean for a batsman is 4. I do This is the key decision. In keeping with cricketing logic, I will not penalise the batsman but cap this performance at 1. This is a key decision in the analysis. Do I detect a few academic purists shaking their headsBut I can also see many more cricket followers nodding. How would below average performances be handledIf the mean for a bowler is 2. I do I will leave this performance at 6. After all, these are the performances we are looking for to measure consistency. How do we handle the last few inningsspells of a career Don Bradman played 8. Richard Hadlee bowled 1. No problem with these players. However, what do I do about Clarrie Grimmett, who bowled 6. Tony Greig, who played 9. I tried leaving the seven and three as part blocks and adjusted the numbers accordingly. But it often backfired. Greigs last three innings were 0, 4. Players should not be penalised for ending their careers at certain points. Lean blocks would always lead to problems like this. So I decided that if the last block had five or more inningsspells, I would take it as an independent block. If the last block had four or fewer inningsspells, I would merge it with the penultimate block. In both these cases, tweaking is done to take care of the number of inningsspells in the final block. Finally, what is the index of player consistency It is the average of the block performance percentage values across a career. This average is called the Consistency Index. The higher the average, the more consistent the player. Let me define player consistency here as the ability of players to keep their sub par performances to a minimum and close to their mean values. Let us see how the process works using the data for a very consistent batsman and a very consistent bowler. Summary of Tony Greigs career. Greig scored 3. 59. His Block Mean thus works out to 3. Since the last block has three innings, the penultimate block is deemed to have 1. Thus, he has nine blocks. The mean for the last block is 5. The block analysis is explained below. Block. Innings. Runs. Mean of Mean Adjusted. Consistency Index. Greigs troughs were not low the three 9. Also, the remaining two values are around 8. His final average of 9. Summary of Bill OReillys career. OReilly took 1. 44 wickets in 4. His Block Mean works out to 3. I have selected OReilly so that the other method of last block handling can be explained. Since his last block has eight spells, it is left as it is, and he has a total of five blocks. The mean for the last block is 2. The block analysis is explained below. Block. Spells. Wickets. Mean of Mean Adjusted. Consistency Index. OReilly had two of his five blocks at 1. These led to a very high Consistency Index value of 9. Most consistent Test batsmen in history. Batsman. Team. Runs. Innings. Blocks. Block Mean. Consistency Index. Tony Greig. Eng. 35. Darren Bravo. WI3. Herbert Sutcliffe. Eng. 45. 55. 84. 85. Ian Redpath. Aus. Arjuna Ranatunga. SL5. 10. 51. 55. 16. Roy Fredericks. WI4. Alan Knott. Eng. 43. Kevin Pietersen. Eng. Gordon Greenidge. WI7. 55. 81. 85. 19. Saeed Anwar. Pak. Linsay Hassett. Aus. Joe Root. Eng. 48. Ijaz Ahmed. Pak. 33. Allan Border. Aus.