Evaluating performance of blackcaps of New Zealand vs. Global cricket teams

Abstract

Stardom of the cricket team's has towered insight and interaction in theeye of their spectators or detests. Popularity of performer becomes aninfluential source for blue chip companies. Through endorsement they advertisetheir brands due to player unique enthusiastic styles that shed light to capturethe attention towards their style & usage. Blackcap of New Zealandperformance in various ODI, Champion Trophies, has cost billions of dollarsworth effort behind match's outcome. A huge sum of data for variables such ashome ground performance, inevitable environment of non resident countries,future expectation, ratio's, win & lose, played matches ratio, decade wise& year wise goal's has been collected in sports databases over a period oftime. The team has played international trophies match since 1972. Spectators ofblack caps may always be inquisitive to find reasons of its success. Thisresearch is focused on statistical analysis of above variables data. Itsfindings could enable us to see how the blackcaps played with high success rateas compared to its rivals. Primarily decade wise data collection has been doneto assess the team's best & worst performance in home ground & externalpitch of cricket. These results also showed characteristics of black capsagainst its opponents in world champion Trophies from 1975. The same methodologycould be used to assess the performance of other cricket teams around the worldthrough data mining. © 2009 IEEE.