(By “Commonwealth” I mean what used to be called the British Commonwealth, not the Commonwealth of Virginia or similar.)
I’m old, so haven’t really got into T20 cricket. However I’m "bach"ing it this week (my family are having a holiday prior to school starting next week, but I need to work) and watching the Oz-India T20 game.
Is there a particular score considered “par”? I guess in the 50 over game I would say that 250 to 300 was par, depending on the ground and conditions, but I have no idea about T20. Is it 150 to 200, or something else?
By the way, I’ve just seen Dave Warner (a left-hander) change to right-handed and hit a 100 metre 6. Unbelievable. And now he’s out. Oh well.
I have no numbers to support this - but I’d say roughly 150-160 (i.e. 7.5-8 an over) might well be around par. I only say this after watching games though - it might well be different should someone actually look at the figures. 8 an over generally seems achievable in T20 if you’ve still got some batsmen, whilst still being an effective target to bowl at.
Thanks for that. The outfield in Sydney tonight is slow following some rain, so maybe a lower score will be sufficient. Australia at the moment is scoring at 8.8 per over, but the rain has just started to fall.
Could be an interesting night. Hopefully the rain will stop.
I feel better now, because the commentators have just said, “no-one knows what a reasonable score is.” If the experts don’t know, then I don’t feel so bad not knowing.
The Australians are batting again because the rain has stopped.
I don’t know if this is a valid way of looking at things, but according to Cricinfo’s Statsguru, a total number of 217 T20 internationals have been played with a total amount of runs at 59733 (including on-going matches like the Aus-In being played right now.) That gives an average of 275 runs per match, which leads me to think that this confirms Cumbrian’s and AK84’s estimates of 150-160 for a decent score as pretty accurate.
I don’t know what happens to the average if IPL (or other league) results gets filtered in.
156 after 18 suggests a total topping 170 and potentially 175 if they can really throw the bat at it. That’s a very good total and will take some serious work to chase down, I reckon.
I couldn’t agree more. I think quite a lot of other websites could learn significantly from Statsguru - searching for stats in a number of other sports seems so much more difficult after you’ve got used to Statsguru.
That’s nto to say it’s perfect but it is very good.
171 is a good total. I suppose the mystery factor is Sehwag - if he goes off on one, pretty much anything is chaseable. Is he even playing though - got to confess, i’m not up to speed on this game at all.
I’m confused now. The Channel 9 commentary team is saying the total is 170. Cricinfo.com say 171. Our TV channel missed the final ball due to showing advertisements, so I don’t know.