India’s gamers have fun after successful the fifth Test match towards England by an innings and 64 runs, at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, in Dharamsala
India beat England in Dharamshala within the last Test to win the five-match collection 4-1. This cricket match marked a number of information. In explicit, for the primary time in Indian Test cricket historical past, the variety of total wins matched the variety of losses. This imply that India’s win-loss (wins divided by losses: W/L) ratio is now 1.
Table 1 | The desk reveals the win-loss ratio of groups at present in Test cricket.
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India is at present fifth amongst groups with a W/L ratio of 1 or extra, with Australia’s ratio of 1.78 main all of the groups whereas Pakistan’s 1.04 is simply above India’s (Table 1). Only 12 groups have performed worldwide Test cricket.
Chart 2 | The chart reveals the cumulative variety of wins, losses, and attracts (together with ties, deserted and cancelled Tests) for India over time for the reason that group performed its first Test in 1932.
It reveals that the variety of losses and wins turned equal in 2024. India now has 178 wins and losses every in 581 Tests.
Chart 3 | The chart reveals a technique known as rolling averages used to analyse units of 83 Tests at a time. We then calculate the common share of wins, losses, attracts/ties for every set. For each new set, we transfer ahead by 7 Tests to see how the averages change over time (83*7 = 581 Tests). The first information level on the chart is for Tests 1 to 83, the following is for Tests 8 to 90, and so forth, ending with Tests 499 to 581.
For occasion, in Tests 197 to 279 performed by India between 1982 and 1993, the group gained over 10% (lowest win % for any of the durations), misplaced near 30%, and drew 60% of its video games. Using this technique we are able to additionally discover out the interval when India had extra wins than losses and the tide started to show.
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Note how from Tests 309 to 391, performed between 1997 and 2006, India’s wins have all the time been greater than the variety of losses registered. This interval marked the decisive break when India turned a internet successful Test group.
Table 4 | The desk lists out the house and away information for the pre-Nineteen Nineties, Nineteen Nineties, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.
India had a win/loss ratio of 0.9 at dwelling previous to the Nineteen Nineties however a poor away report — 13 wins and 54 losses in 118 video games for a W/L ratio of 0.24.
But within the Nineteen Nineties, a dramatic enhance in dwelling wins was noticed, coinciding with the preparation of spin-friendly wickets throughout this era. India’s dwelling report within the Nineteen Nineties reveals 17 wins and 5 losses in 30 Tests for a Home-W/L of three.4, at the same time as India registered just one away win and 15 losses in 40 video games for an Away-W/L of 0.07.
Since the 2000s, nevertheless, India has retained its dwelling dominance. This peaked within the 2010s, when India’s Home-W/L went as much as 9.25 (37 wins and simply 4 losses in 50 Tests).
Also within the 2000s, India had its greatest away report — 19 wins and 19 losses in 56 video games for an Away-W/L of 1.0 and which decreased marginally within the 2010s and 2020s to 0.76 and 0.9, respectively, however was manner above the Nineteen Nineties and pre-Nineteen Nineties mark.
In sum, the Indian group turned a formidable dwelling group within the Nineteen Nineties and in addition turned fairly aggressive in away Tests for the reason that 2000s. Thanks to an excellent spin duo of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh, India was near-invincible at dwelling within the Nineteen Nineties and the higher a part of the 2000s.
After Kumble and Singh retired, R. Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and others, apart from an efficient tempo bowling assault, helped the Indian group scale new peaks at dwelling within the 2010s and 2020s. A balanced bowling assault and a robust batting line-up helped the group climate challenges in away video games within the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s and have stored it aggressive.
With inputs from Kartikeya Date
vignesh.r@thehindu.co.in, srinivasan.vr@thehindu.co.in
Source: ESPNcricinfo’s Statsguru
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