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 in the ultimate 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 exhibits the win-loss ratio of groups at the moment in Test cricket.
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India is at the moment fifth amongst groups with a W/L ratio of 1 or more, 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 exhibits the cumulative variety of wins, losses, and attracts (together with ties, deserted and cancelled Tests) for India over time because the group performed its first Test in 1932.
It exhibits 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 exhibits a technique referred to as rolling averages used to analyse units of 83 Tests at a time. We then calculate the typical 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 knowledge 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 received over 10% (lowest win % for any of the intervals), misplaced near 30%, and drew 60% of its video games. Using this technique we will additionally discover out the interval when India had more 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 more than the variety of losses registered. This interval marked the decisive break when India turned a web 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 document — 13 wins and 54 losses in 118 video games for a W/L ratio of 0.24.
But in 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 document in the Nineteen Nineties exhibits 17 wins and 5 losses in 30 Tests for a Home-W/L of three.4, whilst India registered just one away win and 15 losses in 40 video games for an Away-W/L of 0.07.
Since the 2000s, nonetheless, India has retained its dwelling dominance. This peaked in the 2010s, when India’s Home-W/L went as much as 9.25 (37 wins and simply 4 losses in 50 Tests).
Also in the 2000s, India had its greatest away document — 19 wins and 19 losses in 56 video games for an Away-W/L of 1.0 and which lowered marginally in the 2010s and 2020s to 0.76 and 0.9, respectively, however was approach above the Nineteen Nineties and pre-Nineteen Nineties mark.
In sum, the Indian group turned a formidable dwelling group in the Nineteen Nineties and in addition turned fairly aggressive in away Tests because the 2000s. Thanks to an impressive spin duo of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh, India was near-invincible at dwelling in the Nineteen Nineties and the higher a part of the 2000s.
After Kumble and Singh retired, R. Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and others, moreover an efficient tempo bowling assault, helped the Indian group scale new peaks at dwelling in the 2010s and 2020s. A balanced bowling assault and a powerful batting line-up helped the group climate challenges in away video games in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s and have saved 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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