Publications by prasoonsharma
Who’s the best bowler in World Cup Cricket history?
We’ve witnessed many great bowlers in World Cup Cricket – Shane Warne and Murlidharan, the spin wizards, and Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, the toe-breakers. However, the data indicates that the marathon man, the-run-up-and-bowl-accurately guy, Glen McGrath, takes the mantle for being the best bowler in World Cup Cricket based on total # wicke...
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Who’s the best all rounder in World Cup Cricket history?
We love cricket all rounders (players who can both bat and bowl). These players are great assets for their teams and captains love ’em. So, who are the best all rounders in World Cup Cricket history?Kapil, Steve Waugh and Jayasuriya have all performed really well but Imran Khan takes the lead based with high wickets/game. He has one of the high...
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Cricket – opinions and facts
@zxaar’s comments in a Cricinfo article prompted this post. He commented that – “He (Miandad) was not great outside of pakistan where he was helped by home umpires. Not a true great. Miadad’s case states lie due to favour from umpires.“I’m an Indian cricket fan and grew up seeing Miandad snatch victory from India in a n...
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Comparison of Sunil Gavaskar and Javed Miandad’s Performance in International Cricket
Test Cricket PerformanceOne Day Cricket Performance Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Enterprise Software Doesn't Have to Suck. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find...
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India Australia test cricket matches over the years
If you’re like me – chewing your nails, sitting in the same position for the last 2 hours to watch India battle Australia in the Mohali test match and enjoying the fascinating duel, watch how closely these two teams have fought in the past. This plot shows the narrow margins with which these two teams have won against each others ...
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How to pick the best cricketer in any format of the game?
Recently ICC awards 2010 were announced and I began wondering how the process works. I haven’t seen any good documentation of the process, so I started thinking how would I do it. Here’s my version. Thoughts?Note: I is impossible to determine this by number crunching only as there are many factors that are not qualitative e.g...
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Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar
There is a lot of hype in media about Ponting’s best days being behind him. While he’s rebuilding a fresh Aussie team, everyone is putting more pressure on him by comparing his performance with Tendulkar’s. Leave him alone!We have the privilege of watching two great batsmen play in our lifetimes. They’ve both had prolific batting careers ...
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The class of Donald Bradman
This post is a response to a comment on Cricinfo on Donald Bradman about his inclusion in All Time World XI. AK47_pk said,“7 innings against westindies, 7 against south afriqa, 5 against india nd 61 against englnd(so basicly he only played against england) nd sir bradman is in world eleven..its a joke….i bet he enjoyed english bowlers….how...
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Any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem?
Are there any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)?I looked around but could not find any… Any leads?VRP is a classic combinatorial optimization challenge and has been an active area of research for operations research gurus for 30+ years. Although a lot of research and progress has been made in academia, enterprises are far behi...
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Fantasy football (oops, soccer)
Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of defenders, mid fielders and strikers to maximize your total team points without exceeding your budg...
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