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

Dimensions to Evaluate a Batsman

In our previous posts, we defined median, mode and standard deviation of players. In this post, i want to bring to attention multiple dimensions along which a player can be evaluated. Here are they !

i. by Position (Opening, First Down, Second Down, etc)

ii. by Bowler (Fast/Medium/Spin)

iii. by opposition (Aus, WI, NZ, Pak, Ind, SL , Eng, SA etc)

iv. by Location (Home/Abroad)

v. by outcome of matches (Winning/Losing)

vi. by position of the field (on-side/off-side)

vii. by Innings (Batting First/Chase)

viii. by stage of the innings (Power-Play, Middle-overs, Slog)

ix. by Boundaries, Singles, Twos, Threes

x. by current form indicators (Last 5/10 matches, Previous Tournament) - This is very important to assess the "current form". For example mean, median, mode and standard deviation of player in last 5 matches/10 matches/previous tournament.

All these dimensions can be used along with mean, median,mode and standard deviation. For example: Mean, Median,Mode and Standard Deviation of Sachin Tendulkar for Australia, England, WI, Pak,SL,Eng and SA teams will help us understand the performance of Sachin across all these teams. We can compare these numbers with overall mean, median,mode and standard deviation score for sachin. It helps understand against which teams he has performed well and which teams he hasn't matched the average figures.