As I said in my previous blog post, I am a cricket fanatic. I’ve always wanted to find a resource where I could see the scorecard of professional cricket matches - as an example see the scorecard here. However there did not appear to be anywhere that did this, so I decided to create a web application myself to do this. As a strong R programmer, Shiny seemed like a great tool that would allow me to do this. The app can be found here.
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How to use
The Matches tab gives you a list of Twenty20 matches for the specified date range, competitions and even a certain team if you decide to. For the match that you would like to view, then click on the “Go to Scorecard” button and the scorecard will open in the Scorecard tab. You can also toggle which innings you would like to see. To change the match, go back to the Matches tab and click on a new game.
Please be aware that if you have not yet selected a match by clicking the “Go to Scorecard” button in the Matches tab, then the Scorecard tab will be full of errors.
Future to dos
- More formats other than just Twenty20.
- Use different colours for different bowlers, so you can see how each batsman fared against the different bowlers.
- Add the ability to click on a player and see an analytical overview of their stats broken down by year, competiton, etc.