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Comparing Tendulkar and Dravid

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

This post just tried to compare the performance of Tendulkar and Dravid against different teams in matches with large score. This does not talk about only matches when we were chasing. The averages here are slightly off because I have not taken into account the not-out innings.
Again Tendulkar performs better than Rahul Dravid in matches [...]

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Tendulkar saga

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

So the Tendulkar saga continues. After I posted the last post people came back and said no but his performance while chasing a score of bigger than 250 is not so good. So I thought that let me see if that is true. See the chart below

Actually his performance is much better when he is [...]

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Tendulkar’s performance

December 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

So there were some more discussion on Tendulkar’s performance. So went around digging around some data. The biggest complain that I have heard that Tendulkar does not play when it matters. I do not understand the meaning of this statement. But I tried to analyze it in my own way.
See the chart. This is Tendulkar’s [...]

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Cricket and Indian Team

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

We were having a coffee table discussion on how much does Sachin Tendulkar suck in cricket. I thought that I should really figure out the truth in that. So here is some analysis of past performance of our batting stalwarts.

 
Tendulkar
Dhoni
Dravid
Shehwag
Pathan
Yuvraj

141

2

9

 

1

24

12

 

26

9

8

12

65

18

6

8

 

93

4

23

0

1

64

52

35

7

7

10

0

26

29

51

4

9

19

 

10

28

49

17

0

0

35

14

52

65

10

0

2

55

18

0

1

27

1

26

63

18

47

27

 Total

334

224

234

137

150

261

10 Inns Avg

33.40

24.89

23.40

15.22

16.67

29.00

5 Inns Avg

15.40

34.80

37.20

21.80

15.40

10.80

5 Inns Avg next match 0

19.30

24.67

22.50

15.22

16.56

26.33

10 Inns Avg next match 0

9.60

24.60

36.40

20.00

11.60

10.80

If you look at [...]

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