Here is another short post which ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on
This post has also been published in RPubs RankT20Players. You can download this as a pdf file at RankT20Players.pdf.
You can take a look at the code at rankT20Players (available in yorkr_0.0.5)
rm(list=ls())
library(yorkr)
library(dplyr)
source("rankT20Batsmen.R")
source("rankT20Bowlers.R")Virat Kohli (Ind), Chris Gayle (WI) and Kevin Pietersen (Eng) top the T20 rankings. Virat Kohli stands tall among the batsmen with a average of 39.1935, followed by Chris Gayle who has an average of 32.69 and finally Kevin Pietersen.
Note: For T20 a a cutoff of at least 30 matches played was chosen.
T20BatsmanRank <- rankT20Batsmen()
as.data.frame(T20BatsmanRank[1:30,])## batsman matches meanRuns meanSR
## 1 V Kohli 31 39.19355 128.8371
## 2 CH Gayle 43 32.69767 119.6467
## 3 KP Pietersen 37 32.43243 138.6732
## 4 KS Williamson 31 32.25806 130.1255
## 5 Mohammad Shahzad 33 31.66667 115.4582
## 6 BB McCullum 69 30.98551 126.0610
## 7 MJ Guptill 54 30.83333 120.0669
## 8 AD Hales 37 30.75676 115.3511
## 9 H Masakadza 38 29.26316 109.6182
## 10 GC Smith 32 27.59375 114.1831
## 11 DA Warner 56 27.53571 123.2209
## 12 JP Duminy 58 26.84483 117.3952
## 13 DPMD Jayawardene 51 26.47059 112.4257
## 14 SR Watson 50 26.30000 118.9464
## 15 KC Sangakkara 52 26.23077 112.4665
## 16 TM Dilshan 66 26.18182 102.5683
## 17 SK Raina 43 25.90698 124.3044
## 18 RG Sharma 41 25.68293 123.3983
## 19 G Gambhir 36 25.66667 117.5764
## 20 Yuvraj Singh 41 25.12195 119.5846
## 21 Misbah-ul-Haq 32 25.09375 106.6762
## 22 EJG Morgan 52 24.71154 121.1462
## 23 MN Samuels 40 24.35000 105.8547
## 24 MEK Hussey 30 24.03333 129.1250
## 25 Ahmed Shehzad 41 23.82927 100.8805
## 26 Shakib Al Hasan 40 23.35000 109.3798
## 27 HM Amla 30 23.33333 111.2513
## 28 CL White 45 22.73333 NA
## 29 LMP Simmons 33 22.54545 NA
## 30 Umar Akmal 69 22.20290 108.3590The top 3 T20 bowlers are BAW Mendis (SL) Umar Gul (Pak) and Steyn(SA). R Ashwin is 13th. As with batsmen, a minimum of 30 matches played was taken into consideration.
T20BowlersRank <- rankT20Bowlers()
as.data.frame(T20BowlersRank[1:30,])## bowler matches meanWickets meanER
## 1 BAW Mendis 36 1.6944444 6.581111
## 2 Umar Gul 57 1.5964912 7.306842
## 3 DW Steyn 38 1.5526316 6.407632
## 4 Saeed Ajmal 63 1.4920635 6.316190
## 5 SL Malinga 59 1.4576271 7.163898
## 6 TG Southee 37 1.4054054 8.840000
## 7 MG Johnson 30 1.4000000 7.080667
## 8 GP Swann 38 1.3947368 6.576842
## 9 JW Dernbach 33 1.3636364 8.550303
## 10 M Morkel 39 1.3333333 7.384872
## 11 Shakib Al Hasan 37 1.2972973 6.648649
## 12 SP Narine 32 1.2500000 5.757812
## 13 R Ashwin 33 1.2424242 7.247273
## 14 KMDN Kulasekara 42 1.2380952 6.938095
## 15 SCJ Broad 55 1.2363636 7.832182
## 16 WD Parnell 34 1.2058824 8.227941
## 17 KD Mills 41 1.1951220 8.077317
## 18 DL Vettori 34 1.1470588 5.708235
## 19 Shahid Afridi 85 1.1294118 6.748000
## 20 SR Watson 44 1.1136364 8.015227
## 21 Sohail Tanvir 48 1.1041667 7.354167
## 22 Sohail Tanvir 48 1.1041667 7.354167
## 23 NL McCullum 56 1.0535714 7.246964
## 24 NLTC Perera 34 1.0294118 8.916471
## 25 J Botha 39 1.0256410 6.647436
## 26 DJ Bravo 45 1.0222222 8.630000
## 27 Mohammad Nabi 32 0.9687500 7.208437
## 28 DJG Sammy 55 0.8909091 7.899818
## 29 Mohammad Hafeez 56 0.8392857 6.996964
## 30 AD Mathews 44 0.7954545 6.827727As expected Virat Kohli stands head and shoulders above the rest.
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