Rahul Dravid: Data should drive good contest in cricket

Rahul Dravid

Data, which is used in statistics-driven cricket to help in strategy and player selection, should drive a good contest, legendary Indian batsman Rahul Dravid said.

"Cricket has always been statistically-driven like baseball, but over the past 15 years we have moved beyond comparing averages and now use data to help in strategy and player selection," Dravid said during a panel discussion at the 15th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

The first ever panel discussion on cricket at the MIT conference titled Howzdata-How Analytics is Revolutionizing Cricket focused on how data analytics and machine learning are helping to bring advances to the game. "The days are not far off when people are going to turn down a single because the matchup suites them to be able to hit a six in the two or three balls," said Dravid.

"Data should drive a good contest between bat and ball in cricket, not just for hitting fours and sixes," he added.

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