Overview

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How does home matches compared to away matches affect a team’s winning capabilty? Does it play any role?

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Does batting first or chasing the score have any advantages over each other or does it not matter at all?

How does the total runs scored by the team and winning the game by batting first or chasing score depend each other? (Focussed on Chennai Super Kings winning matches)

Detailed analysis focused on a team

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Let us breakdown the story into some matches won be Chennai Super Kings team (5 random matches selected). How does the runs scored in the powerplay overs help the team win matches(Overs 16 to 20)? Following faceted line plot shows the runs scoring trend in 5 winning matches by Chennai team. What do you see? Higher run rates? (Match IDs are present on the right side of the plots)

How the extras (wides, no-balls, byes, leg byes) helping the teams to win the matches? Does it have any relevance in terms of winning the matches?. We will have a comparison of extras scored in random 5 winning matches and lost matches of Chennai team.

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