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Written by Varun Alvakonda and Jarrod Kimber
How do different batters in the IPL go about their business when they are playing a long innings? What are their scoring patterns? How quickly do they score? Find out all that and much more in this episode.
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[@criccode2993]

Dhawan's and Kohli's similarity I think is due to the fact that they are very good odi players and then tried to fit their game to t20, where someone like Suresh Raina had more focus on t20 all along

[@pratikaswalkar]

Raina is much senior to both of them and was a regular in ODI. I think he just understood and played T20 differently than the other two.

[@siddharthreddiar3353]

@@pratikaswalkar Raina was more of a finisher in ODI so his game translated nicely. But he was amazing especially for CSK

[@AbimanyuNN]

Suresh Raina......... Hugely underrated!

[@rudramahadev22]

He is not a pr media boy, he is Mr IPL

[@tjamesjones]

Well, at least not as massively overrated as the other Indian batsmen on this list.

[@bhaargav56]

I look forward to your IPL video analyses more than the actual IPL games.

[@karan_deshmane]

The best part about this is the similarity in batting style in the three Delhi batters, they surely are being given a similar playbook there

[@mistersir7882]

Jarrod just casually exposed a whole lot of superstar batsmen here😁😁 Also it is interesting to see Kohli and Gayle's graphs together. Considering that they both batted alot together for RCB, they as a pair never went below the average SR as from the figure. It has always been the team's weak middle order and an even weaker bowling attack that made them such a bad team.

[@dhruvramansingh6417]

Indian fanboys care more about their favourite player scoring maximum amount of runs rather than positive impact for the the team.

[@abhinay4200]

Lolz sides like LSG ,DC and SRH don't even get support from their local city

[@Lonewolf-c4f]

Not true boy.....not everyone does

[@nayan_dixit]

If that would have been the case then sehwag wouldn't have a fan base and by the way back in 2012-13 his fanbase was bigger then msd, arun lal claimed this during commentary while witnessing the noise of the crowd when both of them arrived at the ground

[@AK-fd1tb]

​@@abhinay4200 LoL have you seen home games in Hyderabad.

[@mistersir7882]

@@nayan_dixit sehwag did contribute giving a positive impact to the team by giving them a good start as an opener. that is the reason why he was opening for the team and that is what he delivered. it is on the rest of the batsmen if they weren't able to capitalise on that start.

[@586seven]

KL Rahul's strange late innings dip is probably caused by the take it deep syndrome, especially in chases. He's probably taking singles and asking his partner to hit, and trying to be the last man standing. Also he's probably in no hurry to finish matches quickly and values staying not out. He basically approaches the game like Dhoni, but as an opener, so you'll see all sorts of strange stats with him. He's always asking himself how do I win the match, and not how do I contribute to this win, and that leads to these kinds of stats. He's a fascinating player imo, for someone who gets so much hate, always backs his approach no matter what. You'd think many people would just start hitting from ball one in his situation.

[@sanathansda8217]

I also think, Punjab's deplorable batting was contributing to this. He probably felt like, if he doesn't bat long, they wouldn't be scoring any runs at all. He consistently made 600+ runs each season in that period.

[@anisuperketchup7776]

the thing his many of his innings, he starts hitting a flurry of boundaries at the 60-ball landmark. For example, his 132(69)* and 95(70)* where he was 90(60) and 66(60) respectively.

[@prematid40]

Lol. Never won any important matches on his own but you are free to assume whatever. 😂 He is jist terrible man.

[@RamKumar-pe7hp]

Take it deep syndrome for an opener is called orange cap syndrome.

[@abhaygupta6380]

I hope and pray that BCCI sees this video.

[@rudramahadev22]

Even if one shows them this they will not change anything, they will keep doing catastrophic blunders every icc tournament

[@EejuVava]

They have the money and resources to do even more detailed analysis of their players. But they won't. Analysing data will bare the reality to everybody which they don't want. Why upset the apple cart. People go to see their "idols" , not necessarily the team. Indians unfortunately have had this idol worshipping mentality😢 data analysis like this destroys the narrative of respective idols.

[@usernamevineet]

Must watch video. I am so impressed that as an ode to this video, I am going to summarize the case this video makes, with my own input on it. That provides analysis of relative SR of batsmen w.r.t to their team SR at same point against number of balls faced by batsmen For KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane, it shows that their strike rate is much lesser than team SR throughout the innings, and never comes to par For Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan, it starts strong much better than team SR, but then goes down after 15-20 balls faced and just about catches to team SR towards the end For Chris Gayle, it starts way below the team SR and ends up well above the team SR in the end For Josh butler, it starts way above the team strike rate, goes down, but still remains above team strike rate thoughout the end This analysis, for sure proves that for K L Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane it is in bowling team's interest to keep them batting as they bring team RR down. For Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli, we can argue both ways. They play sort of anchor innings and while are below curve is more than area above curve, their SR is not that below team SR so they don't cost team that much in terms of runs, and carry team through the end especially on tough pitches. Other way, to look at it is that, on flat tracks, their high scores hide behind high team scores, but get exposed when that high score is chased easily by opposition team consisting of many short but effective innings. The most outstanding Indian batsman in this analysis was Suresh Raina, who played much higher than team strike rate at the start, and stayed much above team SR throughout the end, though there was dip in between. This means Suresh Raina, atleast in terms of SR was one of the best in IPL and somehow underestimated.

[@sushreyomisra3261]

Cool stuff. A couple of questions. 1. How is par strike rate calculated? Average strike rate of all batters at each stage? 2. What does 1 unit of true strike rate on the Y-axis mean? How do I interpret “10 points above par”?

[@ayaannarayan9276]

1 unit of striker rate on the y axis is difference between the batsman’s strike rate and the average strike rate of all batsman in that period

[@jinayvora6240]

Makes me realize that Rohit Sharma plays optimally to his play style as most of his innings in the IPL are 25-ball outbursts during the powerplay.

[@DrDothraki]

BCCI must do a repeat of what they did in 2007 with MSD. Send a young team captained by Hardik/Bumrah who will play fearless cricket. The game has changed and 35 ball 50s dont value as much anymore.

[@redwood2119]

Dhobi is a fluke

[@Reacher-nj4me]

hardik himself bats like that in ipl lol.

[@redwood2119]

Dhobi won it by fluke

[@superstar_h_gamer5211]

​@@Reacher-nj4me depends where he bats this season he's striking at 154. It's also expected to go up considering i think they've found his role again.

[@insertname1841]

Rohit is better

[@kedareswar9840]

I would have absolutely loved to see AB de Villiers's graph there.

[@nikhilps04]

Yup same here

[@nooneknows19]

Missed the cutoff.

[@ShuvamSinha-hh7no]

I dont think he plays a lot of 50 balls+ innings

[@L.I.T.H.I.U.M]

Travis Head's

[@demoxae]

Not an opener ​@@nikhilps04

[@drsudy9640]

This is unbelievably insightful analysis. Well done jarrod!

[@outandaboutintheworl]

Its worth considering when looking at the 'true strike' (which is really 'value added strike rate'), lot of the dips aren't necessarily that a player has slowed their scoring, it is likely that other players at that time increase their strike rate by more. That is almost certainly the case with Raina and his back end dip, it isn't that he slows down his scoring, he is likely still scoring at 150+, it is that the average scoring at that time spikes up as teams look to close out the last few overs while Raina was already scoring incredibly quickly and continued to score quickly.

[@esthaphanvarghese1570]

Rains isn't slow at all at the back, He's comfortably over the average player . The dip we see is actually cuz he has set his standards too high in middle overs

[@rohitvyas13]

Raina was above the true strike rate throughout

[@outandaboutintheworl]

@@esthaphanvarghese1570 I said that. Once again, there is a dip in the graph as Raina's scoring comes back to the field, but this isn't because his own scoring rate drops, it is because the field increases their own scoring rate to be closer to his own.

[@outandaboutintheworl]

@@esthaphanvarghese1570 I literally said that. He scores much higher than other players during the middle overs, and then at the end while he continues scoring quickly other players increase their own scoring and close the gap with him.

[@anisuperketchup7776]

For KL Rahul, in his many of his innings, he starts hitting a flurry of boundaries at the 60-ball landmark. For example, his 132(69)* and 95(70)* where he was 90(60) and 69(62) respectively

[@jay790962666]

This is fantastic. I’d be really interested to see one where we look at batters facing more than 25 balls instead of 50. There would be a lot more but more data = more analysis

[@DARSHAN-_-]

Jarrod would love it if you bring a video on finishers in general in IPL and analyse their SR and stuff like you did in this video. Great vid this BTW. You earned a new sub💪💙

[@catanana]

I wish more people saw this video. I know that you'd most certainly face heat and get hate, but sensible people would agree with you and your channel would reach new heights.

[@ShubhamSharma-eu7ni]

Wow! Jarrod must love data as much as cricket! Beautiful analysis 🔥

[@libinthathappilly]

Wow! This is absolutely incredible. I'm as much of a cricket buff as I'm a data buff. Loved it. Expect more like this.

[@madhavanandakishore3279]

Man you're hilarious "peanut butter and chewing gum section" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AravindUkrd]

Would've been interesting to see Sanju Samson's data. Guys had scored 4000 IPL runs.

[@srinathsubramaniam6833]

Superb analysis!!

[@karthiksrinivasan12]

That 45 balls slump for Rohit looks like a milestone related slump.

[@KalpitTiwari]

Is he reaching 100 there? Generally he crosses 50 runs well before 40 balls (his career strike rate). I believe it's lot to do with over number 13-15, the calm before the storm.

[@leonav218]

Well then Kohli and shikhar are always focused on milestone 😂 it's always a slump for them under 0!😂

[@shroomz11]

I don't think Rohit has enough hundreds to make a difference to these numbers

[@vasu6494]

I think he meant the jersey number as the milestone ​@@KalpitTiwari

[@Kush-w290]

he is reaching near 100 with 45 balls,then that slump is not concerning

[@esthaphanvarghese1570]

How would that graph look for Samson?

[@srikrishsanthosh6898]

Excellent graphics and insights! Subscribed, man

[@oumdeshpande402]

Changing desk height ❌️ Changing chair height ✅️

[@aakashsuresh2566]

Raina is a far better player than those other Indian players as he is there to create a impact and not to statpad

[@jiphinhere]

Raina batted lower down the order, the other Indian batters in the graph were openers. So different approaches. But yeah, Raina is definitely the best Indian batter in the IPL yet

[@anirudhraghavarachuri9989]

Is true SR calculated wrt every player's SR after x balls, or is it everyone's SR at the point where the player is playing ball x?

[@ayushjain729]

Dude where is Virender Sehwag on this chart. The only guy I would like to see these stats for.

[@siddharthreddiar3353]

Don't think he played a lot of 50 ball innings in the IPL

[@kingplatform2255]

@@siddharthreddiar3353 2014 Q2?

[@athrvsydney26]

Good work Predict on the IPL 🏏👍🏻

[@ramkumarganesan3790]

Fantastic Video!

[@dineshreddypeddireddy4319]

KL Rahul is true synonym of Ewing theory in NBA, which is , a team performs better when their star player sits out( Not that he’s not good, but that particular star player approach doesn’t fulfill the potential and effects the team results).

[@vishakhari4628]

This is just a theory... But, I think you need to look at what point do the players reach the milestones, i.e., 50 or 100. That's because almost all players tend to slow down just before their milestones and then pick up their strike rates after that! So if you correlate the strike rate graph with that, I'm pretty sure you can find that it makes much more sense.

[@muhammadasad729]

For True SR, What does 0 and -ve represent? 3:40

[@rebellion6331]

I've said it before and I'll say it again KL Rahul is the worst player to don the India jersey in a long time...selfish, low confidence, and yet somehow makes it through. It's BS lol

[@ragnong9680]

I still remember the 1st match of the world cup, after a great win for India, he was so disappointed that he missed his century.

[@xtreme8067]

True,even in world Cup finals rather than playing an important knock he chose to play safe so that he doesn't get blamed . Both Virat and Rohit tried their best and trusted lower order batsmen but he turned a start worth 300+ score into a shitty 240 knock.

[@nitinverma5149]

One of a kind analysis...thank you kimber. Its all mathematics

[@aakashsuresh2566]

Raina is a legend

[@kakjsd]

Can someone explain his calculation for true strike rate?

[@nooneknows19]

Basically if u play your first 10 balls predominantly in the pp, you’re expected to have a higher sr than someone who plays their first 10 balls in the middle overs. True sr is the difference of that.

[@kakjsd]

@@nooneknows19 thanks

[@L.I.T.H.I.U.M]

This is really brilliant but seeing the relative data for each ball can't give us a contextual understanding. When seeing normal strike rate we usually understand its value using the baseline of 100. 100 means 1 run per ball or a century in 100 balls, which we understand is quite slow for ODI and T20I. This baseline is not known in these relative stats so we have no place to compare and judge it from. I don't know what -10 means after 45 balls. Does it mean a strike rate of 120? 140? 90? This could be fixed by showing both their exact strike rate and the average at that point. Please try this.

[@pritamkundu99]

This stat is really interesting, nice.......👍

[@Random69695]

Raina is a big match player..❤

[@ShubhamSharma-eu7ni]

Is there a way we can access these tables across many more batsmen, with relevant filters?

[@monitor-mindtheover-void6712]

Suresh was bonkers!

[@T80990]

This video shows how underrated J Buttler is

[@sairajburewar]

I am not trying to be a bias fan. But, I am not sure true strike rate is best metric especially for someone like Virat who spent most of his time playing alongside Gayle and ABD.

[@aakashsuresh2566]

Raina is far better than other players you compared that is why he is called as MR.IPL🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@aiyer917]

where is this data from?

[@manumohan4597]

Hi Jarod, huge fan as always! So about KL Rahul, will him playing in the Lucknow home stadium be a factor? Would be so interesting to look True SR across all players playing in Lucknow. Would Chris Gayle have a much different curve in a different stadium?

[@yennapallyvamshireddy3590]

By seeing this kind of analysis and not selecting kohli will more negative impact on BCCI than loosing the wordcup.Especially, if team lost in semis without kohli, than with kohli. Prasing single person for team success is what we do in India, not only in sports especially in politics and in corporates.

[@212go]

this slow start and constant slow batting by KL rahul, thinking i will save it for the end cost us the world cup on 19th november

[@lonesome_commie]

Virat is a legendary one day and test match batsman. He's always been an average t20 player.

[@user-mr5rw5tg4d]

Legendary is Tests? When was the last time he got India across the finish line in a Test championship? He lacks skills to play tests in non Indian conditions. Legendary in ODIs? We saw the legend choke in every white ball final and semi final since he began playing Why do websites need Kohli bootlickers to stay in business?

[@ashishsuman588]

Ok then tell me a single player who has better performance than bumrah in t20i wc tournament and tell me your favourite player name and your country name 😅, you don't know shit about cricket and saying a lot😂

[@lonesome_commie]

@@ashishsuman588i get it! u like kohli. He scored the most runs in the last world cup at a pretty average strike rate of 137. Yes, he did win India a famous match against Pakistan but SKY outperformed him simply by virtue of how quickly he scored his runs. And i don't know why you brought up Bumrah in a conversation about Kohli and exceptional t20 batsmen, but whatever.

[@lonesome_commie]

@@user-mr5rw5tg4dFinals and trophy wins aren't the sole criteria for judging the skill of a batsman. Amongst South Asian batsmen only Sachin, Dravid, and Miandad have better SENA records than Kohli on top of a magnificent record at home. The only contemporary players who have done marginally better than Kohli in all conditions are Steve Smith and Joe Root. And all three are legends of the game. In ODI's Kohli's dominance is astonishing. Great in SENA, magnificent in home conditions. His contributions very well put him in the conversation of the best odi batsman of all time. Viv Richards and Tendulkar are the only ones that I can think of who might be better than him. Acknowledging facts isn't the same as bootlicking.

[@xtreme8067]

​​@@lonesome_commiehe is a great player and has class but he is sure overrated.The amount of hope attached to him is unnecessary. I don't hate Kohli but the truth is he plays for himself first and team later(for example see his strike rate in this world cup when he was nearing 100 in literally every match)

[@asterixgaul7076]

You should do the same with folks who score fast 50s like Sky

[@karanlad6456]

Raina thats why he was called mr ipl

[@Arjun.Trivedi]

Rahane has played some good long innings in a low scoring match.. Rahane plays according to the situation.. Why cant their strike rate be in considered in the context of individual game?

[@rounakjoshi6362]

I love data science bcz of this❤❤

[@ankitdubey9310]

KL Rahul should be in the middle order , he has the game he just needs to be put on the spot , a 25(11) is far more valuable than whatever KL is doing these days

[@chandleryt7496]

Hey can you please share the data?

[@abishekthirumurugan6915]

you are forgetting KL played atleast 3 seasons in Punjab with very poor batting line up where he need to anchor from start to finish

[@sharan9993]

So you are comparing each batter's per 5 balls to every batter in the league ryt Then obviously guys that stay longer more consistently will have a lower sr compared to others. What i mean is, Faf sr from 30 to 40 balls etc will be lot less than say a hitter like hetmyer sr in the similar 5 ball period bcoz hetmyer will be always looking to score faster hence they dont even get to 30 balls mark often. While anchor type players will reach that mark more often. I feel this is flawed way of looking at things.

[@batman3490]

you could've added samson with raina.. because he is highest runs scorer at no.3 in current ipl players.

[@nayan_dixit]

Want to see a comparison between klassen and sky

[@SanjaiS-dq6ml]

where are ab de villiers and sanju samson

[@ruthwik081]

I hope bcci is looking at this don't pick Rahul for this world cup

[@Saksham_Sonic]

Where's AB? 🤔

[@nooneknows19]

Hasn’t faced 50 balls >= 10 times.

[@acousticnomad1682]

I dont think India can afford both Kohli and KL both in the same team. But unfortunately, we know they are both walking into the team because of the weak mentality management.

[@nischals510]

Poor analysis with lot of missing data. Didn't consider Manish Pandey's 74 ball innings as long?

[@nsn5564]

Virat and KL shouldn't be in the Indian T20 side. My WC T20 India team: 1. Gill 2. Jaiswal 3. Sanju Samson/Ishan Kishan (wk) 4. Rian Parag 5. Sky 6. Shivam Dube 7. Abhishek Sharma 8. Jadeja 9. Y Chahal 10 Bumrah 11 Mayank Yadav (if healthy)

[@gauravyadav6315]

This team can be called an A team....this kind of team almost got crushed by ireland,and lost series against sri lanka

[@leonav218]

And there's no good captain there! Team will lose miserably in group stage itself!

[@dashmeetsingh9679]

Abhishek Sharma, having to bowl four overs throughout the tournament. I dont see anything going wrong in that approach.

[@lookingforlove839]

Here is the problem with your assessment: We do need an anchor innings in T20 WC. Most of these T20 players that score 200+ strike rate in IPL, they will most likely get out early or won't have much of an impact. A player like Kohli would perform with the same consistency that he does in IPL. Sometimes you need that consistency. Let the other young guns try and score quick runs. But if they screw up, you still need a backup plan

[@nsn5564]

@@gauravyadav6315 Things have changed from 3 years ago and even last year. I'm going purely by current form in recent 2024

[@vijayreddy3952]

KL Rahul is a fraud

[@rudramahadev22]

Now public have the proof of why India can't ever win t20 wc again, Since these very same old dogs will play again this year they won't win either

[@dr.downvote]

Kohli scored at a strike rate of 156 to score a hundred in FIRST innings when the team was falling apart. Got trolled. Yesterday Hitman scored hundred at 166 strike rate in a CHASING match. So that’s how analysis works now doesn’t it? And we shouldn’t blame 166 strike rate batting!

[@BehemothianTerror]

Bcci should see this and do something about it. My 11 for the wc2024 Abhishek sharma Jaiswal Sky Hardik Jitesh Rinku Axar Shardul Kuldeep Bumrah Arshdeep

[@BehemothianTerror]

And if this lineup doesn't work bring dube in place of shardul, hardik will be your 5th bowler and then just bat deep, just don't worry about the bowling bat hyper aggressively

[@abhinay4200]

KL Rahul is the worst player

[@lionheart650]

😂 RCB blood

[@user-mr5rw5tg4d]

The reason why India have never won a world cup since 2011 is right here. VK determined to get his personal milestones at the cost of the team KL out to destroy India in crunch matches RG doesn't have the guts to drop VK and KL

[@xtreme8067]

Exactly even in this world cup he slowed in the final overs literally just to complete his 100.And forget about KL Rahul he is only there because of Virat Kohli and shoe licking by commentators and media.He is the reason that even after scoring 80 in 10 overs in the final match we couldn't do 300+.Plus that overrated shreyas Iyer who has only performed when the team got a good start and was also under confident in finals.Rohit was doing well but in finals his field placement was just too defensive

[@lenovoparth]

@@xtreme8067 Dude what are you on about ??? Game of t20 has also evolved in last 10 years and Virat is trying to change his approach too. He has been our saving grace in t20s for past 10 years be it in 2014(finals or league stage),2016(vs aus or semifinal or pakistan), 2021 (vs pak) 2022(vs pak or league stage) . If someone needs to be dropped it is rohit (check his stats in t20 wc against top 8 sides) that guy horrendously chokes in t20s.

[@aakashsuresh2566]

Raina is a far better player than those other Indian players as he is there to create a impact and not to statpad