Correlating Type of Bowler by scoring areas of a batsman

This is very important part of SWOT analysis of a batsman. Understanding the scoring distribution of batsman. Lets consider a batsman

##	Off-side	On-Side
Fast Bowler	193	257
Medium Pace Bowler	131	156
Off-spinner	156	243
Leg –Spinner	78	276
All types of Bowlers	558	932

We see that he is predominantly an onside player as shown below:

##	Off-side	On-Side
Fast Bowler	42.89%	57.11%
Medium Pace Bowler	45.64%	54.36%
Off-spinner	39.10%	60.90%
Leg –Spinner	22.03%	77.97%
All types of Bowlers	37.45%	62.55%

The batsman scores 62% of runs on-side. More we find that spinners are his heavy target on-side. The best strategy is to attack this batsman on the off-side and expose his weakness. From a batsman perspective he needs work on his off-side.

Also we see the distribution by bowlers on onside and offside (Column percentages take here)

##	Off-side	On-Side
Fast Bowler	34.59%	27.58%
Medium Pace Bowler	23.48%	16.74%
Off-spinner	27.96%	26.07%
Leg –Spinner	13.98%	29.61%

Here it is clear he is comfortable with pacemen on off-side and spinners on leg side. Using this information opposition can plan bowling and fielding attack for the batsman.

One can go even a step-further and try to understand on-side and off-side areas.

Offside can be broken down into

1. Third Man

a. Deep

b. Square

c. Fine

d. Short

2. Mid-off

a. Short

b. Deep

c. Silly –Mid-off

3. Long-Off

a. Straight

b. Wide

4. Cover

a. Short

b. Extra

c. Deep-Extra

d. Deep

5. Point

a. Backward

b. Deep Backward

c. Forward

d. Cover

e. Deep

f. Deep Cover

g. Silly Point

6. Gully

7. Slip

a. First

b. Second

c. Third

d. Leg

e. Fly

Even Onside can be broken into multiple-categories like:

1. Long-on

a. Straight

b. Wide

2. Mid-on

a. Deep

b. Short

3. Mid-wicket

a. Deep

b. Deep Forward

c. Short

4. Square Leg

a. Forward

b. Backward

c. Deep

d. Deep Forward

e. Deep Backward

5. Fine Leg

a. Short

b. Deep

c. Square

d. Backward Short Leg

e. Long

f. Straight

6. Leg Gully