Who is the greatest ODI batsman India has ever produced? A debate that has raged many a time across India, from water coolers to drawing rooms to canteens to social media, and is unlikely to have a conclusive or decisive end. There are many reasons why this debate is often inconclusive, not least being the completely different and arbitrary set of criteria used by people to back the player they rate supreme. “Greatest” as a term is open to many interpretations and, having been witness to and often been a part of many such debates, I figured this needed an objective approach. Being a data scientist (I believe this is the term currently in fashion), I thought of using a purely statistical approach to answer this question. And like any statistical research, step one involved clearly defining the research objective. Restating the Objective Given that “greatest” is a term used in many contexts, the first task was to restate the question under argument to be one which w...
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