IPL 2008 Bowling Stats... A follow up

As a follow up of previous post, I decided to bring to you some interesting Graphical Statistics on the performance of bowlers on a team basis. There is a lot to talk about how teams fared overall on producing champions.

Well to start off with, let’s have a look on the where the top 50 wicket takers come from:



The above graph shows something funny! From the list players who featured in top 50 wicket takers list, the maximum numbers of players come from Bangalore Royal Challengers’ team, however none of these players were able to make it top ten wicket takers list, as depicted by the red pyramids. The teams that shared the top performers were Rajasthan, Chennai, Punjab and Delhi. Coincidentally, these teams were also the 4 semifinalists of IPL 2008. The below statistics is the indicator of the fact that bowling has a lot to do with overall team’s performance in any given tournament. Well this figure may definitely daunt the morale of King’s XI Punjab which has got almost toothless bowling attack this summer.
Now here is a food for thought, the “mock “report of who has taken maximum heat of the top performing bowlers:

Well the graphs represent that the most numbers of Best figure have come against Bangalore royal Challers. This is typically called joining the party when others are having fun. As apparent, Deccan chargers follow the suite. But the most surprising entry is Chennai’s. 6 out of top 50 bowling figures were against Chennai. Well Superkings, you definitely need to have a look here.
Now let us have a look as to what went wrong for the Superkings:
The pie chart almost clears all the doubts. Actually it was Rajasthan royal bowlers who took the maximum bite in the pie, i.e 3 out of six, followed by Bangalore Royal challengers and Mumbai Indians with two and one times each.

Taking a deeper look into the graph, Its Sohail Tanvir, who has done the maximum damage! Once again, Sohail Tanveer in News! This definitely makes way for the fact that Rajathan Royals are definitely going to miss Sohail Tanveer.

The IPL 2008 Bowling Statistics

Talking on the bowling front, there were some epic performances by Pakistani players. And bowling is something Pakistan stands out for! Well with the array statistics from different views, there goes the flurry of graphs depicting performances from IPL 2008.

Top Wicket Takers:


The IPL 2008 season saw Rajasthan royals dominating all through the series. Quite apparent by the fact that along with batsmen dominating the list in IPL 2008 batting statistics the bowlers also took the series by storm. The top wicket takers of IPL 2008 has Sohail Tanvir at the bottom (well just in the graph) with a maximum of 22 wickets. The second spot is shared by Sreeshanth and Warne and then we have several closely competing players as shown by the density of blue lines in Graph.

Economy and Wickets/match:

Well, taking a look at the economy perspective, Sohail Tanvir emerges out the winners in that stat too! With the best economy Sohail Tanvir tops the economy list too. An interesting thing could have been here is whether the total number of wickets taken is influenced by more number of matches played. Well to answer that question, the blue bars with wicket per match shows that Sohail Tanvir deservedly topped the list, as he averaged 2 wickets per match. A fresh ranking here has been done based on the average wickets per match. However, the ranking statistics is not much different from the ranking in highest wicket taker stats.

Best Bowling figures:

No prizes for guessing that. Sohail Tanvir who has topped the top two stats phenomenally makes way to top here also. However, it’s not just one, but two entries in the top ten best bowling figures stats. The “longer” blue bars represent runs and the shorter red bars represent the wickets taken.The top ten best bowling figure stats have 3 Pakistani bowlers. One thing that becomes apparent here is the contribution of Pakistani bowlers to the bowling dimension of IPL 2008. The cricking community could have got to see them in action this season too had it not been for those bloody terrorist attacks on Lankans!!!

An account of what I went thru- Superkings vs Daredevils

I was typing the below post as I was watching the match between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Superkings. I was so overwhelmed with the thrill but since I was all alone watching the matching I couldn’t help but share it with someone. And who could be better than my readers… so there you go!

A tremendous batting performance by Delhi Daredevils have just set the tone right for a big match between the champions of previous season. In a mammoth score of 189 for 5 in 20 overs, there was hardly any contribution by the most talked about Gauti-Viru opening pair from Delhi. The major contributions came from AB De Villiers and Dilshan, who created 105 and 50 respectively. Ab De Villiers century is the 7th IPL Century and also the first one in this season.

Chennai Superkings have started the chase in style. With Hayden hitting the ball all over the park, the team looks well in hunt for the mammoth target!!! Raina has come in to join the party with 41 runs in just 27 balls.

The live commentary begins...

"The heart beats are up, the ones with weak heart had better kept off this match. As Chennai Superkings require 190 runs to win, the game is evenly poised at the moment. However, for them runs are coming in trickle when they should have come in floods!!! It’s now two overs left and 24 runs more to be made. As unnerving as all the Chennai superking’s match. The same was the condition in the match against Mumbai.

At the climax, Chennai loses Badrinath. Now Chennai requires 22 runs in 9 balls with 4 wickets in hand.

Gony has been promoted upper in the batting order. And a much needed sixer by Gony. Now the Chennai superking’s need just 15 runs in 7 balls.

That’s out!!! Gony run out off the last ball from Vettori. Now 15 runs required in 6 balls. The match is definitely on the steepest cliffhanger.

Well , its back to back two wickets lost by Chennai. They no more look in hunt now."

A great chase put up by Chennai Superkings. Delhi Daredevils definitely will be happy with the way things have turned out in final overs. They were successful in uncovering the weak lower order at the time when it was needed the most. For the Chennai superkings some of the great performances have gone waste, including the fastest fifty by Hayden.

Scores

Delhi Daredevils: 189/5 in 20 overs
Chennai Superkings:180/9 20 overs