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Stats across eras
Thu, November 21 2013
Sachin Tendulkar is very near the top among batsmen in the cricketing landscape spanning across time
Numbers may not tell the complete story, but they give a fair indication of the trail one has blazed during one’s playing days. Arunabha Sengupta uses statistical techniques to evaluate the position of Sachin Tendulkar among all-time batting legends.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 8: Spin and pace domination over decades
Statistics may not tell the whole story, but numbers are the footprints and tell-tale evidences left by cricketers across time. Having looked at the best bowlers down the decades, Arunabha Sengupta now turns his attention to how spin and pace coexisted over the years, and how spin bowling was evidently affected by one-day cricket.
Thu, September 03 2015
Stats across eras 6: How helmets affected scoring against Lillee, Thomson etc
In the sixth part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the perception that helmets affected the revenue of pace bowlers since they came into play from 1978.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 5: A detailed look at scoring – team by team, decade by decade
In the first part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta had claimed run scoring had become standardised by the 1920s and remained more or less constant after that. In this episode he looks in greater detail, team by team, at every decade between 1920 and 2000, and finds that contrary to popular perception, batting did not get increasingly easier.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 4: How greats from Bradman to Sachin fare on same scale
In the fourth part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta compares the leading batsmen of cricket history by evaluating where each one stood among his exact contemporaries. The article lists the 41 batsmen since 1920 who managed to perform better than 80% of their peers.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 3: Tendulkar, Dravid & Gavaskar – a class apart
In the third part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta compares the leading batsmen of Indian cricket by evaluating where they stood among their contemporaries. As expected Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar lead the charts by a long way.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 2: Bradman, Sobers, Tendulkar… top batsmen by decades
In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades, and finds that the career average actually does not quite lie.
Tue, September 02 2014
Stats across eras 1: Did Sachin Tendulkar have it easier than Sunil Gavaskar?
The general conception is that the bowling quality is on the wane and batsmen in general have it much easier in the middle. However, how does this perception stand up against hard data? Arunabha Sengupta analyses.