Quantifying Performance of Cricketers

Abstract

This chapter provides the overview of various performance measures that are available in cricket to quantify the performance of cricketers. In a cricket team, every player in the playing eleven is expected to perform well whether he is a batsman or bowler or all-rounder or wicket keeper. Since cricket is a game of uncertainty, sometimes players are unable to give his optimal performance for the team. Quantification of the performance of cricketers, based on their performance in different dexterities of the game viz. batting, bowling, fielding and wicket keeping approached by different authors are discussed. Along with the discussion on such measures, a simpler but effective linear model of performance computation is discussed extensively in this chapter.