ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the performance of men and women cricketers in international cricket in terms of batting and bowling. Batters and bowlers are most commonly ranked according to their respective batting and bowling averages. This chapter suggests a way by which the use of the ‘batting average’ to assess batting performance could be extended to encompass consistency, and another way through which the contribution of bowlers to their teams’ ‘ill-fare’ might be evaluated, in terms of their economy and strike rates. Both extensions use methods from inequality analysis.
