Key success factors for Team India in T20Is
Since World Cup 2015, there is a new kind of stat that has picked up everybody’s eyeball. It is called key success factors for the team. We all have seen stats such as ‘If X scores more than 30 runs, India wins 80% of the times’.
Well, being a statistics student all my life, I know that this is just a case of correlation and correlation is not causation. To put it very simply, the relationship between two things does not mean that one causes the other.
However, as a cricket fan, I love seeing the relationships between two events. Assuming that everybody else loves these kinds of success-factors stats, I curated some similar stats for the Indian batsmen playing in the World T20. I would cover a similar piece later for bowlers.
Virat Kohli
Undoubtedly, he is one of the best batsmen in T20I’s right now. His innings against Australia in a do-or-die match in the World T20 is beyond explanation. His stats speak very highly of him. He has played 37 innings for India in T20I’s and out of those 37 innings, he batted in the second innings 19 times. And out of these 19 matches, India won 15.
Surprisingly, out of 4 games that India lost, Virat scored 66 and 70 in two of them. His first innings record isn't as spectacular. He batted 20 times in the first innings and India lost 12 of them. Again, it isn't a blame – just a stats correlation.
