Abstract

Cricket sport is a favorite source of entertainment in commonwealth countries. Traditionally in cricket, the performance of the team measures after winning or losing a match. The international cricket council (ICC) is a governing body that ranks cricket teams globally without considering the strength and weakness of the region. Region-based team’s strength and weakness is an essential factor for the teams’ selection. In this paper, we proposed the Region-wise Team Rank (RWTR), an extension of the PageRank algorithm to rank cricket teams across the region. The intuition is to get more points to a team that wins a match from a stronger. The proposed ranking reflects more the flow of the game compared to the traditional ranking.

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