A question that boggled my mind while I was proctoring an exam today ? So what difference does it make if an opener gives a quickfire start of 30 runs or 20 runs ? Is it that big ? What is the difference between a 0 and a streaky 10 ? Between a 40 and a 50 ? A 90 and a 100 ? A 50 and a 60 ?
From an opener ? From a pinch-hitter ? From a tail-ender ?
In the slog ? In the middle overs ? While chasing a huge target ?
While batting on a minefield ? On a batting beauty ?
In all these multitude of scenarios what is the value of 10 runs ?
Clearly it is different, clearly it depends a lot on all these circumstances, maybe initially I thought it was not too much but maybe I need to analyze this further.
Actually the motivation I had for this question was initially quite different. I was working on the fact that prior to the start of 2004 Sehwag averaged 35, since then he averages 28. Is that such a drastic decline as is made out to be ? Well I guess for that I have to look at other avenues, like considering more than just averages.
But I hope I have raised some interesting questions and look forward to the opinions of all of you.
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...and there has to be a mathematical way to analyze this..
one could think of different scenarios as currencies. in order to go from one node to the other, there is a penalty or not. that penatly can be defined by different exchange rates ..
hah - aight - that was pretty dorky
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