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By: sudheer

sudheer — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:13:27 +0000

i wanted to write ( @ runrate of 8 ) …. and wordpress made that icon in the end because i missed the space between 8 and ‘)’

By: sudheer

sudheer — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:11:42 +0000

Sorry about the long comment, and somewhat the repetition of what GB and Asterix have already mentioned.

Net run rate is just your overall runrate in all matches – overall runrate of ur oppositions…. (ur total runs in all matches/ur total overs in all matches- ur oppositions’ total runs / their total overs..)…

or u can call it as weighted average of net rates in individual matches (weighted over no. of overs played in individual matches)…

thats why NRR of SL is bound to decrease bcz it will get averaged in multiple matches….

and thats why it was advantageous for ur to bat first in Bermuda match… had we bowled bermuda for 100 first and then chased it in 10 overs (@ runrate of 10)… it won’t be as beneficial to us (even though in this case the difference of runrates is 10 – 2 =8… but since we played only 10 overs, it wont have contributed much to our runrate, as opposed to the case when we scored 400 in 50 overs (@ runrate of 8))

By: Asterix

Asterix — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:36:42 +0000

Arnab, you are spot on with the NRR.

Net Run Rate explained
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/NETRR.html

By: Asterix

Asterix — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:18:08 +0000

Oops GB, in my haste to post I don’t think I got you.
The way the NRR is calculated is simply subtarcting the RR for & against.

Sri Lanka:
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For Against
— ——-
321 78
50 50
6.42 1.56
NRR = 4.860 (6.42 – 1.56)

India :
~~~~~~~
For Against
— ——-
604 348
100 98.5
6.04 3.53
NRR = 2.507 (6.04 – 3.53)

And so on.

By: Asterix

Asterix — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:09:44 +0000

You are right GB, that is what surprised me. The way it looks like (source Cricinfo) that the Net RR is calculated by subtracting the RR for / against.

I am eagerly awaiting your post on India’s chances of progression. I think we all are !!

By: greatbong

greatbong — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:05:35 +0000

@All: Sorry for not being able to reply to individual comments here and on the Bob Woolmer post. Work and whatever time is away from work is being spent on cricket. Just a point, the net RR seems to be calculated as an average. For instance, yesterday India’s margin of victory was over 250. Divide it by 50 and you get 5. Against bangladesh, we got a negative NRR of 0.135. So our Net RR should have been 4.9-ish. However it is 2.5..something because we have played 2 matches. The reason I mention this is that if bangladesh defeats bermuda by 120 runs their net RR is not 2.5 ! but (2.5 plus 0.14 plus whatever their margin will be against Sri Lanka) divided by 3. I may be wrong, but this is how I think it works.

By: Asterix

Asterix — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:39:21 +0000

@slashgod , ALL : What’s your take on the margin on India’s win against Bermuda? I think the bowlers ar awful and should have been able to defend 191 againsat Bangladesh & not allow Bermuda to score 150 runs (with Hemp remainining not out on 76 with a scoring rate of 72). If Bangladesh beats Bermuda by 120 runs (BL 250 v BER 130) then Bangladesh gets 2.4 NRR. And since they play the last match, they will know the stats before the game begins.