Posted by Gareth Parry Added on: August 05 2012
India comprehensively beat Sri Lanka, 4-1, in their recent series to lift themselves to second in the ODI rankings. Their success was built on a dominant display with the bat with most of their top order making significant contributions in the series.
The following graphic shows how the two sides batting line-ups compared. Each sides top seven batsmen’s performances are collated with their cumulative performance statistics calculated and compared.
Sri Lanka |
India |
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Average |
38.08 |
42.36 |
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Strike Rate |
83.54 |
91.58 |
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Not Out %age |
13.33 |
17.65 |
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%age of Scores over 100+ |
3.33 |
8.82 |
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%age of time 50-99 scored |
26.67 |
23.53 |
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Conversion Rate of 50's to 100's |
11.11 |
27.27 |
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%age of runs scored by 4's |
34.34 |
35.75 |
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%age of runs scored by 6's |
3.64 |
3.04 |
Given that India won the series 4-1 it is little surprise that their performances are statistically better than those of Sri Lanka. Of the eight criteria analysed they are ahead in six.
The biggest difference between the two sides in term of their batting is how often their batsmen made big scores. Sri Lanka have a slightly higher percentage of innings that score between 50 and 99 but a significantly worse conversion rate of 50's to 100's and fewer hundreds overall.
The Indian batsmen converted their 50's onto hundreds more than 27% of the time which was 16% better than their Sri Lanka counterparts. The comprehensive nature of the Indian sides victory suggests that their ability to score hundreds was a key factor in their success and an area Sri Lanka must aim to improve.
The other area when India were significantly better is the percentage of the time batsman in the top 7 were not out. They were more than 4% better than the Sri Lankans which in real terms means that India had a top seven batsmen still at the wicket at the end of the innings more often than Sri Lanka. This means that India were more likely to have front-line batting resources available at the end of the innings which allowed them to take full advantage of the final overs.
The inevitable conclusion of this analysis is that the dominance of the Indian batsmen was key to their success as they at least matched the Sri Lankans in most areas and were significantly better in several key departments which was the difference between the two sides.
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