Forecasting the Outcome of the Next ODI Cricket Matches to Be Played

Abstract

Cricket is one of the most popular sports in the contemporary world. The ebullience of securing victory in a particular match has motivated the rudimentary part of this research aspect. Winning in Cricket depends on various aspects like weather, track records of the performances of players, performances at a specific venue, match experiences, performance against a specific team and the current form of the team and the player. In this paper the main goal is to estimate a win prediction for ODI (One Day International) cricket match. For purposes of model building, various method has been applied retrospectively to the data that are already obtained from previously played matches. From them, Random Forest has given the best outcome of 92.6%.