cricket on S Anand

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:36:05 +0000

When my father mentioned that Virat Kohli scored a century (again) against South Africa, I wondered how he compared to the likes of Tendulkar and Gavaskar.

I asked ChatGPT:

If you had to evaluate the quality of Indian batsmen over time, what single metric (possibly composite) would you use?

Evaluate the top Indian batsmen in history on this metric. Plot them over their active years (X-axis) along with the metric (Y-axis), labelled with the player names, on a beautiful visualization.

It picked a simple metric: Batting Average * log(Total Runs).

Claude and Gemini, too, preferred simple metrics that favored the batting average or total runs. Strike rate, relative to era, win rate impact, etc. were all excluded.

(Sadly, any metric that misses Kapil Dev feels a bit… incomplete.)

Data story: https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/indian-batting-greats/

Romance on the cricket pitch

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Romance on the cricket pitch. Fan proposes. Zaheer Khan gracefully accepts. Watch it on Google Video.

Comments

Dhar 23 Oct 2005 10:47 am: I have had great difficulty in watching videos from Google and this one is no exception. I wonder if I am the only one facing this problem.
AlphaGeek 23 Oct 2005 6:26 pm: Me too.. Facing the same problem !!! Anyone can u pls help us ?
Amit 24 Oct 2005 6:47 am: the India head of Google said this a few days ago that video.google.com is not allowed in countries like India, Germany, etc because of some compllicated laws. Guess thats what is causing these problems.
Dhar 24 Oct 2005 9:13 am: Wow… this is very interesting. I tried accessing this through a proxy server in Britain and was able to view the video. There may be something in what Amit said….
S Anand 24 Oct 2005 9:17 am: Hey, that explains why my family is not able to view my videoes!

22 Patels in a cricket match

Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

An intruiging case of 22 Patels in a cricket match. via Kamat

Sachin scores 20000 runs

Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Sachin Tendulkar scores 20,000 runs in international cricket.