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Amol Desai

@amol_desai

Cricket Analytics Consultant & Researcher Ex. @ZelusAnalytics (working with Rajasthan Royals), Freelance @CricViz https://t.co/53rZunsmes

California, USA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Harsha Bhogle@bhogleharsha·
One of my biggest professional regrets is that ESPN Star left all the episodes of Harsha Online behind. It would have been a recorded history of Indian cricket (and of a few other sports) with 45 min interviews of every top Indian sportsman.
Joy Bhattacharjya@joybhattacharj

I have a story about Border and Gavaskar. In 2000, ESPN Star Sports organized a quiz series against an Indian and an Australian team. India had Gavaskar, Venkat and Sidhu, while Border had Ponting, Moody and Gilchrist as teammates. The Indians won comfortably, but I remember Allan coming to me on the last day of the quiz and presenting me his dark green game shirt for putting it all together. I lost that shirt during a house shift, and it so hurts me, given that all the tapes of the shows were also tragically erased when ESPN Star Sports ended as a joint venture!

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Vishal Misra@vishalmisra·
@MonsieurJudge There’s more where that came from 1 Pick Which Four — @vishalmisra/pick-which-four-2b2ab303e8f7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/p… (~Apr 11) 2 Five Bowlers in Eighteen Years — @vishalmisra/five-bowlers-in-eighteen-years-d615f38e0f43" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/f… (Apr 9) 3 The Impact Player Treadmill — @vishalmisra/the-impact-player-treadmill-b25749674b12" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/t… (Apr 8)
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Vishal Misra@vishalmisra·
Every IPL batter who has faced 30 balls is ~85% more likely to get out on his next ball than on his first. Not less. More. We tested it on 281,256 IPL deliveries. Then we ran Kohli as a special case. He stands out, but in a surprising way. Read more: @vishalmisra/the-set-batter-paradox-2b01aa55a728" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…
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Lau Sze Yui@903124S·
With all the studies of about whether cricket batter partnership effect exist in particular opposite hand advantage for two batters on the field, but we can look it in a simpler term: platoon effect i.e. player performance against same-hand/opposite-hand opponent 1/n 🧵
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Amol Desai@amol_desai·
Has anyone here figured out how Krunal Pandya indicates the upcoming bouncer to the keeper?
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Vishal Misra@vishalmisra·
Five bowlers in 18 years. That’s how many pass the scrutiny of a statistical test for elite death bowling. Elite bowlers don't bowl more yorkers. They just miss fewer. The yorker: economy 5.4. The full toss: 12.4. Six inches, a world apart. Read more: @vishalmisra/five-bowlers-in-eighteen-years-d615f38e0f43" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/f…
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Vishal Misra@vishalmisra·
The Impact Player League: a rule that adds 50 runs per match and changes absolutely nothing competitively. Toss winner win rate: 51.8% before, 51.8% after. The real casualty? The all-rounder. Analysis of the IPL rule: @vishalmisra/the-impact-player-treadmill-b25749674b12" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…
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Vishal Misra@vishalmisra·
1/ Follow-up work to the excellent analysis by @johanfourie and Krige Siebrits - the left-right batting partnership advantage is a myth at every level, in every league, against every bowler type @vishalmisra/the-unbothered-bowler-5cfdebd9faa6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vishalmisra/t…
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Amol Desai
Amol Desai@amol_desai·
Some more rigorous corroboration for something that I wrote about recently at medium.com/boundary-line/…
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Johan Fourie@JohanFourieZA

We analysed 3.4 million cricket deliveries across every men's international since 2001. The advantage of left-right batting partnerships? Precisely zero. The raw data seem to confirm the myth: mixed partnerships outscore right-right pairs. But the ordering is LL > LR > RR. More left-handers = higher score. It is left-hander quality, not hand diversity, doing the work. With the IPL starting this week, coaches are still engineering left-right balance in batting orders. The evidence says: pick the best batsman. Ignore the hand.

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Amol Desai@amol_desai·
@903124S Also more right handed batters might mean that left handed spinners bowl more arm balls that are a generally faster variation. This is speculative - I haven't checked.
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Amol Desai@amol_desai·
@903124S Yeah. If this is using HE, I think it's the first few frames out of the hand.
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Lau Sze Yui@903124S·
@amol_desai I think it's measured out of hand and don't think hawk-eye would be too inaccurate for it. Bowler could indeliberately throw a bit faster and slower and that could show up in length data
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Amol Desai@amol_desai·
@903124S Is this using delta relative to individual bowler or avg bowler?
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Lau Sze Yui@903124S·
If we compare bowl speed over/under bowler average speed, we can see that higher speed will indeed give up fewer runs, and trend is similar no matter for fast bowlers or spin bowlers 6/n
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Amol Desai
Amol Desai@amol_desai·
@903124S Not sure this is unsurprising. Might say something about measurement methods.
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Lau Sze Yui@903124S·
Also unsurprisingly a full length/yorker would be thrown faster than a short/bouncer ball by approximating length in data 4/n
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Amol Desai@amol_desai·
@903124S Is this because spinners and pace bowlers are both included and there's proportionally more right arm spinners?
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Lau Sze Yui
Lau Sze Yui@903124S·
First, left hand bowler is 2-3 km/h faster than right hand bowler in the dataset, and bowl speed is similar from offside to leg side 4/n
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Omkar Walunj
Omkar Walunj@the_cricketest·
CricViz built a Skill Scale for the #ICCT20WORLDCUP . Everyone saw the numbers. Nobody knew what they meant. So I built my own. Where every number has a cricket answer. Thread 👇
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Himanish Ganjoo
Himanish Ganjoo@himganj153·
I think IPL pitches are causing subtle harm to Indian T20 cricket.
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The Best of Cricket
The Best of Cricket@bestcricstories·
BEST #CRICKET STORIES OF THE WEEK: 📊 Amol Desai has an unbelievable deep dive into ‘handedness’ matchups. It’s gone under the radar, but this is the level of analysis needed to be a professional analyst. All stories at bestofcricket.substack.com/p/roundup-high…
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