Introduction

The IPL – Indian Premier League – is an Indian domestic limited over cricket tournament and has been played annually since its inception in 2008. This project uses data about the IPL cricket tournament to diagrammatically answer a few questions about the tournament. The data was taken from cricsheet.org in YAML format and expertly (and humbly) wrangled into practicable rectangular form by yours truly. Data from the 2008 edition through to the 2021 edition is used in this project.

 

Chart One: Who scored more runs by boundaries?

The IPL is known for some heavy hitting, and spectators enjoy seeing the ball arc from the center of the field into the upper tiers of the stands. But who scores more of their runs this way? This flipped, stacked bar plot shows the batsmen who have scored the highest percentage of their runs by boundaries. Bars are broken down to show the percentage of a batsman’s runs scored by fours and sixes (for example, astonishingly, more than half (50.4%) of the runs scored by AD Russell in the IPL have come from sixes, and 78.6% of his total runs scored have been by boundaries.)

(Batsman scoring >= 60% of their runs via boundaries are shown.)

 

Chart Two: How do the top run scorers score their runs?

This facted bar chart looks as the 16 all-time leading run scorers in the IPL and breaks down how they scored their runs by percentage.

 

Chart Three: Mean dot balls per over

This lollipop plot shows the mean number of dot balls (non-scoring balls) per over of the leading dot-ball bowling bowlers in the IPL. DW Steyn averages close to 3 dot balls per over across his IPL career. Minimum qualification for inclusion is bowling > 260 overs.

 

Chart Four: Teams totals distribution

This histogram with rug shows the distribution of team totals across all editions of IPL. It spproximates to a normals distribution.

 

Chart Five: Who runs farthest?

Each time a player scores a non-boundary run, both they and the non-striking batsman traverse the length of the playing wicket (the stumps are 22 yards apart, and the popping creases are 19.3 yards apart; for this estimate we will assume each runner cover 22 yards per run). This flipped barchart shows which batsmen have covered the greatest distance over their IPL careers.

 

Chart Six: Maximum and minimum team totals each season for the majot franchises

This animated/interactive plotly Cleveland dot plot shows the maximum and minimum team totals for each of the major IPL franchises, per edition of the IPL. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are missing data as they were suspended from participating in the 2016 and 2017 editions over allegations of corruption

 

 

Chart Seven: Distribution of each dismissal by over

This faceted line plot shows in which over each of the major dismissal types occur.

 

Chart Eight: How the leading run scorers are dismissed

This faceted bar plot shows the ways in which the 16 all0time leading run scorers have been dismissed.