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Statistics are recorded for each player during a match, and aggregated over a career. At the professional level, statistics for Test Cricket , One-day Internationals , and First-class Cricket are recorded separately. However, since Test matches are a form of first-class cricket, a player's first-class statistics will ''include'' his Test match statistics - but not vice versa. Nowadays records are also maintained for List A limited over matches. These matches are normally limited over games played domestically at the national level by leading Test nations. Since one-day internationals are a form of List A limited over matches, a player's List A statistics will ''include'' his ODI match statistics - but not vice versa. GENERAL STATISTICS
BATTING STATISTICS
1 Batsmen who are not required to bat in a particular innings (due to victory or declaration) are not considered "Not Out" in that innings. Only the player/s who have taken to the crease and remained there until the completion of an innings are marked "Not Out". Batsmen who retire due to injury or illness are also deemed not out retirement for any other reason [http://aus.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/2001-02/ASIA-TEST/SCORECARDS/BDESH_SL_ASIA-TEST_T2_06-10SEP2001.html , except in exceptional circumstances [http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1982-83/IND_IN_WI/IND_WI_T5_28APR-03MAY1983.html] are deemed out. BOWLING STATISTICS
ANALYSIS OF CRICKET STATISTICS Although cricket statistics have been recorded since the late 1800s , they have mostly been regarded by fans in a traditional manner of simply comparing the numbers between players. This contrasts with Baseball , which generates a similar profusion of statistical records. Baseball Statistics have been studied in greater detail, leading to the field of Sabermetrics , which has produced several new statistics expressly designed to give better indications of the relative strengths and values of players. This sort of detailed analysis has not yet been generally applied to cricket statistics, although some statisticians are beginning to look at cricket with an eye to providing a similar depth of analysis. Professional cricket Coaches are using Computer records of ball-by-ball play to obtain more detailed statistical analysis of player performances than ever before. However, these analyses have seen little spread into the public knowledge of the fan community. One example of a proposed new cricket statistic is a figure to better indicate a batsman's value than his batting average. Since the average is somewhat inflated by the presence of any not out innings, some have argued that a more indicative statistic would be the number of runs scored per innings, regardless of whether the batsman was out or not. This statistic is not used by any major media outlets or commentators, perhaps because it fails to account for successful lower-order batsmen who often run out of batting partners. DYNAMIC AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS The advent of saturation Television coverage of professional cricket has provided an impetus to develop new and interesting forms of presenting statistical data to viewers. Television networks have thus invented several new ways of presenting statistics. These include displaying two-dimensional plots of shot directions and distances on an overhead view of a cricket field, and graphs of run scoring and wicket taking numbers plotted against time or balls bowled over a career or within a match. These graphics can be changed dynamically by computer as statistics evolve during a game. SEE ALSO
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