The first match of the 2014 Indian Premier T20 Season will feature the previous two champions competing in front of a packed Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. The 2013 Champions have dominated their Calcuttan opposition in past tournaments, winning 10 out of the 12 previous meetings. With the supersonic speed of SAP HANA we can visualize historical data in SAP Lumira to gain insights on tonight's opening match.
In their first match of last season Mumbai completed an amazing comeback in the second innings to steal two points from the Knight Riders. After bowling a disastrous 26 runs in the first over of the match, Mumbai’s Harbhajan Singh redeemed himself with a decisive six in the 20th over to propel Mumbai to a 162 – 159 victory and stun the packed Eden Gardens crowd. With Lumira we can quickly create a Manhattan chart to visualize the number of runs scored by each team per over during the match.
With SAP Lumira we can quickly visualize how each team took wickets during the match. Mumbai caught 2/3rd of their six wickets while KKR earned a leg before wicket dismissal. Check out a pair of pie charts for the wickets taken during the April 24th match .
When the clubs clashed again two weeks later in Wankhede Stadium the Indians trounced the Knight Riders by 65 runs. Mumbai’s batsmen were electric, scoring 8.5 runs per over, including 25 in the 20th over. Check out the Manhattan cart for the May 7th match.
On May 7th 104 of Mumbai’s 170 runs were scored by knocking the ball beyond the boundary. Mumbai’s batsmen hit four sixes and 20 fours.
With SAP Lumira we can dive even further into Mumbai’s batting statistics from the match by plotting the runs they scored ball by ball. After suffering a maiden first over, the Indians found their swing and cruised to an impressive total. Note that SR Tendulkar hit five consecutive fours during the 4th over.
The defending champions only got stronger during the auction period acquiring the services of last year’s orange cap winner Michael Hussey. With the addition of Hussey, Kolkata may be even harder pressed to earn two points tonight, as the Australian has scored 263 runs against the Knight Riders in the past two seasons, his highest total against any team over that time frame.
Hussey has faced Knight Rider bowlers five times in the past two tournaments. With SAP Lumira we can quickly create a stunning storyboard containing a radar chart of Hussy’s run production in those five matches. Hussey nearly hit for a century during one match last April.
Will Mumbai’s new batsmen help put the defending champions at the top of the table to start the 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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