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Nice catch on WIA Fernando Doosra. It lays bare our dot ball problem and our latent problem in ODI.

Our posters here are typical West Indians, they can't see past their noses. I mean can't see the wood from the trees.

The simple lesson is this: SR on its own can be misleading. While one may have a reasonable SR he/she may take up lots more resources to achieve that SR as compared to other international batsmen.

In the case of Shai Hope: his SR is already considerably less than other international players and he has the double whammy of eating up more resources to achieve this less than satisfactory SR.

West Indies starts all innings with this significant disadvantage.

The problem for West Indies is further compounded by the choice of his opening partner and the number 3 batsman.

If Shai Hope opens in ODI, his batting partner cannot be Sunil Ambris and the number 3 batsman cannot be Darren Bravos. This batting order/arrangement gives up too many resources for less than optimal returns and will fail more often than not.

I would suggest another more accurate reflection would be to multiply the SR by the dot ball factor to convert it to a weighted SR.

Hencforth, let this be called the Doosra/Courtesy method.

In reply to Courtesy

wait...where is Dukes in all this?

In reply to sudden

He did not come to the reception early enough.

In reply to Courtesy

You forgot about number 4 Chase who is another liability in that batting order. With such a fragile top 4 they are not even going to defeat UAE.

In reply to bolls

I shall engage you since you have made a reasonable post.

Chase has made a reasonable attempt to improve his SR and lessen his dot balls during the last 2 innings. I think he understands what is required in the context of the mordern ODI game. It is only prudent to give him more time.

In reply to Courtesy

What are his scores? His SR is around 80 in last 2 games and he can't handle good spin nor fast bowling. He is a big liability in that batting order along with Ambris. Wasteundies missing the trick with that batting order and having Chase, Ambris and Bravo in the same team.

In reply to bolls

He could be batted at 6 or 7 and given specific instructions depending on the state of the game. I think he brings value to this weak side. Besides, I know to well never to use 2 bits of data to serve as a trend.

We are simply stating that you treat the number of balls faced as a resource. Further, Strike Rate on its own can be very misleading.

We are advocating multiplying the SR by the dot ball factor to get a more accurate reflection of the layout of the land. Dat simple...the Doosra/Courtesy method.

Dot ball factor = 1 divided by the dot ball percentage.

Eg: a 60 percent dot ball = DB factor of 0.0167.

It's simply the reciprocal of the dot ball percentage.

It's patented now.

This new metric will now be called in cricketing terms the Doosra/Courtesy Index.

Batsmen across the T20 and ODI formats will now be evaluated for batting prowess or contribution equally (level playing field).