Exploring cricket data from ESPN Cricinfo

Acknowledgements

Inspired from TV Ganesh's cricpy repo. Mr. Ganesh, if you are seeing this, thank you so much.

Content

Contains a Jupyter Notebook having all the code for the analysis.

Methodology

• Gather cricket data on players using pandas's read_html method
• edit the url of statsguru page of cricinfo, particularly the parameters to request the specific players data based on specified context
• Use the so gathered data to analyze batting and bowling performances.

Players

Planning to use the below player's data for further analysis

• Virat Kohli 253802
• Sachin Tendulkar 35320
• Shikar Dhawan 28235
• Rohit Sharma 34102
• Kane Williamson 277906
• Steven Smith 267192
• Joe Root 303669