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sameer Kumar mishra
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IPL CRUNCH '26 — 5-Season Ball-by-Ball Analysis
Analysed 83,000+ IPL deliveries across 5 seasons to prove toss winners lose 53% of matches and middle overs decide games — not the coin flip.
sameer Kumar mishra
300 matches
1 counterintuitive finding: toss losers win more.
5 seasons
6 charts
Overview
Everyone has IPL opinions — "toss is everything", "death overs win matches", "Kohli always delivers
Process Started with raw ball-by-ball CSV data where every row was one delivery bowled. Cleaned and validat
Results Three questions answered with data:
- Toss — Toss winners win only 46.7% of matches. Toss losers a
Reflection I'd add economy rate and strike rate to the bowler and batter rankings rather than raw wickets and