A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Predicting bowling performance in cricket from publicly available data
Authors: Aneem-Al-Ahsan Rupai, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Asadul K. M. Najmul Islam
Conference name: International Conference on Computing Advancements
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Publication year: 2020
Book title : ICCA 2020: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing Advancements
Journal name in source: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Series title: ICPS Proceedings
ISBN: 978-1-4503-7778-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3377049.3377112
Cricket is one of the most popular games worldwide. The aim of this paper is to predict bowlers' performance from publicly available data. Team management follows different strategies to win in the tournaments. They anticipate bowlers' performance of the opposite team in diverse conditions and prepare their batsmen accordingly. Similarly, they also foresee the strength and weakness of opponent teams' batsmen and suggest their bowlers to perform different tricks in various environments. In this paper, we build a machine learning based approach to predict bowler's performance in varying conditions by using 6,031 bowling instances of One day International (ODI) matches. Our classifier shows substantial prediction potential to predict bowler's performance.