yorkr ranks ODI batsmen and bowlers

This is the last and final post in which yorkr ranks ODI batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on

average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and
average wickets and average economy rate for bowlers.

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This post has also been published in RPubs RankODIPlayers. You can download this as a pdf file at RankODIPlayers.pdf.

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You can take a look at the code at rankODIPlayers (available in yorkr_0.0.5)

rm(list=ls())
library(yorkr)
library(dplyr)
source("rankODIBatsmen.R")
source("rankODIBowlers.R")

Rank ODI batsmen

The top 3 ODI batsmen are hashim Amla (SA), Matther Hayden(Aus) & Virat Kohli (Ind) . Note: For ODI a a cutoff of at least 50 matches played was chosen.

ODIBatsmanRank <- rankODIBatsmen()
as.data.frame(ODIBatsmanRank[1:30,])

##            batsman matches meanRuns    meanSR
## 1          HM Amla     185 51.96216  84.15508
## 2        ML Hayden      79 50.08861  81.20646
## 3          V Kohli     279 48.51971  78.55197
## 4   AB de Villiers     253 47.93676  95.05561
## 5     SR Tendulkar     151 45.82119  79.62311
## 6         S Dhawan     116 45.03448  81.54043
## 7         V Sehwag     167 44.49102 106.27563
## 8          JE Root     111 43.64865  81.66054
## 9        Q de Kock      85 43.61176  82.55235
## 10       IJL Trott     113 43.36283  70.69761
## 11   KC Sangakkara     293 42.81911  75.10420
## 12      TM Dilshan     283 41.76678  89.70360
## 13   KS Williamson     146 41.24658  73.49267
## 14   S Chanderpaul      93 40.07527  70.59613
## 15        HH Gibbs      75 40.00000  79.03813
## 16     Salman Butt      57 39.85965  59.29807
## 17    Anamul Haque      58 39.72414  56.45224
## 18      RT Ponting     238 38.88235  71.94294
## 19       JH Kallis     136 38.77941  67.17794
## 20        MS Dhoni     328 38.57927  90.30555
## 21      MJ Guptill     199 38.54774  73.88090
## 22       DA Warner     138 38.52174  87.24978
## 23 Mohammad Yousuf      94 38.44681  72.69851
## 24        JD Ryder      66 38.40909  91.29667
## 25       GJ Bailey     133 38.38346  75.74519
## 26       G Gambhir     209 37.83254  75.15483
## 27      AJ Strauss     122 37.80328  71.54844
## 28       MJ Clarke     301 37.67442  69.78415
## 29       SR Watson     274 37.08029  83.46489
## 30        AJ Finch     103 36.36893  79.49845

Rank ODI bowlers

The top 3 ODI bowlers are R J Harris (Aus), MJ Henry(NZ) and MA Starc(Aus). Mohammed Shami is 4th and Amit Mishra is 8th A cutoff of 20 matches was considered for bowlers

ODIBowlersRank <- rankODIBowlers()

## [1] 35072     3
## [1] "C:/software/cricket-package/york-test/yorkrData/ODI/ODI-matches"

as.data.frame(ODIBowlersRank[1:30,])

##               bowler matches meanWickets   meanER
## 1  Mustafizur Rahman      56    4.000000 4.293214
## 2           JH Davey      53    3.528302 4.455094
## 3          RJ Harris      94    3.276596 4.361489
## 4           MA Starc     208    3.144231 4.425865
## 5           MJ Henry      88    3.125000 4.961250
## 6         A Flintoff     139    2.956835 4.283022
## 7           A Mishra     106    2.886792 4.365849
## 8     Mohammed Shami     144    2.777778 5.609306
## 9     MJ McClenaghan     165    2.751515 5.640424
## 10          CJ McKay     230    2.704348       NA
## 11       MF Maharoof     114    2.701754 4.427018
## 12       Imran Tahir     156    2.660256 4.461923
## 13        BAW Mendis     234    2.641026 4.532308
## 14     RK Kleinveldt      54    2.629630 4.306667
## 15      Arafat Sunny      62    2.612903 4.103226
## 16         JE Taylor     156    2.602564 5.115192
## 17           AJ Hall      55    2.600000 3.879091
## 18        WD Parnell     129    2.596899 5.477597
## 19         CR Woakes     129    2.596899 5.340620
## 20      DE Bollinger     152    2.592105 4.282763
## 21        Wahab Riaz     206    2.567961 5.431748
## 22        PJ Cummins     148    2.567568 5.715405
## 23         R Rampaul     173    2.549133 4.726590
## 24      Taskin Ahmed      56    2.535714 5.325357
## 25          DW Steyn     292    2.534247 4.534007
## 26      JR Hazlewood      64    2.531250 4.392500
## 27        Abdur Rauf      84    2.523810 4.786667
## 28           SW Tait     141    2.517730 5.173191
## 29      Hamid Hassan     106    2.509434 4.686038
## 30        SL Malinga     419    2.498807 4.968974

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