The 7th annual Indian Premier Twenty 20 tournament starts in less than 48 hours. We will continue to preview the 2014 season by analyzing historical data processed by the powerful speed of SAP HANA and visualized in SAP Lumira. Today we examine team bowling statistics from 2013.
First let’s create a simple visualization of the combined total runs each team’s bowlers allowed during the 2013 season.
Even though Mumbai was victorious at the end of the tournament their bowling throughout the season was quite shaky at times. Mumbai led the league by allowing 2,832 runs. Kolkata’s 2,316 runs allowed was the best in the league but their batsmen couldn’t score enough runs to capitalize and thus the Knight Riders finished in the bottom third of the table.
One factor that caused Mumbai to led the league in runs conceded was because their bowlers allowed a ton of extra runs. Mumbai led the league with 12 no balls and their 84 wides were just shy of Rajasthan’s league worst 92 wides. Check out the rest of the extra runs each team allowed in 2013.
Next, if we add bowling type as legend color to our runs conceded by team visualization we can see the speed balls were thrown when runs were allowed throughout 2013. Most teams allowed a majority of their runs from fast seam bowls. However, Rajasthan conceded a vast amount of their runs off of medium seam balls and even allowed 31 runs off of unorthodox balls.
With SAP Lumira we can drill down further to see who conceded runs off of unorthodox balls. Filtering on the purple slice at the bottom of the Rajasthan Royal’s bar and subbing in bowler name for team name we discover that all 31 runs allowed from unorthodox balls last season were bowled by Brad Hogg. If we change the visualization to a donut chart and select batting shot type as a legend color we can see that drives, sweeps, and slog-sweeps were the most potent shot types against the left-handed Australian.
An extremely useful feature of SAP Lumira is the ability to quickly visualize data on top of a world map. After intuitively creating a Geographic hierarchy we can quickly visualize the number of wickets taken by each team and how they earned them. Mumbai led the league with 117 wickets and like all of the teams heavily relied on catching balls to take wickets. No surprise that table cellar dwellers Delhi took a league worst 66 wickets. Kings XI Punjab’s 23 bowled wickets were a league best. Check out the map of 2013 team wickets taken by dismissal type.
Will the league’s top wicket taking side win the championship again this season?
Keep your eyes peeled for more visualizations created in SAP Lumira using historical Indian Twenty20 data from SAP HANA in anticipation of the 2014 season. Please check back regularly during the season for more insights about the action on the pitch.
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