ANALYZING INDIAN CRICKET TEAM’S DATA POST 1 JAN,2000

Abstract

Indian cricket team represents Republic of India in international cricket in all three formats of t 20, ODIs and test cricket. India is a full and permanent member of ICC and enjoys test status along with 11 other countries. This report attempts to inspect and explain various factors which affect Indian team’s performance. For this, the data in ODI cricket team since 1 Jan, 2000 has been used. The reason to select data only post 1 Jan, 2000 is arbitrary to an extent, but also because of the fact that it was only post 1999 world cup and 2000 match fixing scandal, I have started to watch and follow Indian cricket very closely and these two events are popularly considered as transition points in Indian cricket team’s conquest, especially with the appointment of Saurav Ganguly as the captain of Indian cricket team’s captain. The report focuses on the outcome of data analysis done on the data collected, based on various parameters. The report focuses on asking precise questions like “does parameter A, parameter B etc. and their combination in some form, bear any effect on Indian team and opposition team’s performance and statistics?”. Cricket being a statistic heavy sport, the number of questions and enquiries which can be made while analyzing data are literally countless, but still, this report focuses on focusing on as making many enquiries into data as possible by putting one into the shoes of a sports, or more specifically a cricket statistician.