zsayeed, I applaud your hard work, but I have to question the interpretation of some of these statistical analyses. I don't see how 123/total runs is a measure of working hard between the wickets. Doesn't it just measure whether a guy can hit boundaries or not?
As for correlation of 123 and average, you are correlating runs with runs, so shouldn't the correlation be high regardless? I don't see what this tells us. Obviously if a guy is scoring more 123s, he's scoring more runs. If he's hitting more boundaries, he's scoring more runs too.
I would think that 2s and 3s vs. singles would be a better measure of working hard between the wickets - then you are just isolating the balls that aren't hit well enough for boundaries. But even then, whether or not you can take that extra run is as much about your partner as it is about you, so I don't know how much that can tell us. You would have to control for a player's batting partner on each ball to really get meaningful numbers.
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