This document uses data mining techniques to analyze toss decision outcomes and their impacts on match results for the Australian and New Zealand cricket teams at the 2021 T20 World Cup. Association rule mining is applied to player performance statistics to determine if teams prefer batting or bowling first after winning the toss. The analysis found that Australian teams favored bowling first and had very accurate toss decision outcomes, while New Zealand teams had mixed results depending on the strength of their opponent. Ground-level data on boundary lengths and past toss result trends are also provided to aid in pre-match strategic analysis.

1. Data Mining
for T20 2021
world cup
Toss
winning’s
Decisions.
• Data mining is one of the widely used techniques for finding hidden
patterns from voluminous data. Sports management committee uses
data mining as a tool to select the players of the team to achieve best
results.
• In this Presentation, data mining is used for Australia and New
Zealand cricket team, and an analysis is being carried out to decide
the order of Batting or bowling decision made after the toss
decisions. Association mining rule is applied to performance data
such as( batting average and bowling average, pitch specification,
weather conditions. etc) pertaining to Australia and New Zealand
Cricketers collected from secondary resources. Some of the index
parameters such as performing in first inning or second inning or
playing in the home country or abroad are used.
• This analysis shows the performance of the Australian and New
Zealand Cricketers for 2021 T20 world cup. The detailed study carried
out reveals that performance of Australian and New Zealand
cricketers while playing in the first inning or second inning is
preferred. after the toss results. The same methodology can be
applied to other Team’s cricket players.

2. Pre – Analysis, made before toss end results,
• Toss winning is a solely based on luck, but the analysis get into play
once the toss is won, then winning team, put its analysis into action in
earnest to make winning ratio predictions more in their court.
• Decisions like
Pre
-
analysis
Opponent batting
or bowling orders
Weather
conditions
Past-match innings
decisions
Cricket pitch,
specification.
Match timings. etc
Own team main
strengths

3. T20 world cup grounds and toss results in
each ground
1) Dubai International
Stadium
2) Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu
Dhabi
3) Sharjah Cricket Stadium
4) AL Ameerat

4. 1) Dubai International
Stadium
• Total Match Played: 76
• Batting First Won: 36
• Batting Second Won: 39
• The length of square
boundaries at the Dubai
Cricket Stadium is between
64-67 meters. Talking about
the straight boundary, it is
about 72m.

5. 1) Dubai
International
Stadium
(Australian
game)
Australia vs Sri Lanka
• - Australia won the toss, decided to Bowl (win)
Australia vs England
• - England won the toss, decided to Bowl (win)
Australia vs Bangladesh
• - Australia won the toss, decided to Bowl (win)
Australia vs Pakistan ( semi-final)
• - Australia won the toss, decided to Bowl (win)
Australia vs. New Zealand (final)
• - Australia won the toss, decided to Bowl (win)

6. 1) Dubai International
Stadium (Australian
game)
• The only match Australia lost was against England and
where Australia also loss the Toss. Moreover, England
chose bowling.

7. 1) Dubai
International
Stadium
(New Zealand
game)
New Zealand vs Scotland
• - Scotland won the toss,
decided to bowl (loss)
New Zealand vs India
• - NZ won the toss, decided to
Bowl (win)

8. 1) Dubai International
Stadium (New Zealand
game)
• NZ won toss with only one team on this ground, but that toss
was against India which gave them , a slight edge towards
winning, the first toss they lost was against Scotland, but NZ
team is a lot stronger than them in term of performances
and the last toss was against AUS the final Match, which
could be one of the reason behind there defeat in finale.

9. 2) Sheikh Zayed
Stadium, Abu Dhabi
• Total Match Played: 60
• Batting First Won: 26
• Batting Second Won: 34
• The length of square
boundaries at the Abu Dhabi
Cricket Stadium is between
76-77 meters. Talking about
the straight boundary, it is
about 65m.

10. 2) Sheikh
Zayed
Stadium,
Abu Dhabi
(Australian
game)
Australia vs South Africa
• - Australia won the toss,
decided to Bowl (win)
Australia vs west Indies
• - Australia won the toss,
decided to Bowl (win)

11. 2) Sheikh Zayed
Stadium, Abu Dhabi
(Australian game)

12. 2) Sheikh
Zayed
Stadium,
Abu Dhabi
(New
Zealand
game)
New Zealand vs England
• - NZ won the toss, decided to
Bowl (win)
New Zealand vs
Afghanistan
• - Afghanistan won the toss,
decided to bat (loss)

13. 2) Sheikh Zayed
Stadium, Abu Dhabi
(New Zealand game)
• New Zealand , won one toss and lost one toss, but the one
they won was against, England, which gave them a slight
edge over winning against them. Moreover, the one toss
they lost was against, Afghanistan, which didn’t matter a lot,
cause on paper and on ground as well NZ is quite stronger
than Afghanistan.

14. 3) Sharjah Cricket
Stadium
• Total Match Played: 25
• Batting First Won: 15
• Batting Second Won: 9
• The length of square
boundaries at the Abu
Dhabi Cricket Stadium is
between 62-65 meters.
Talking about the
straight boundary, it is
about 58m.

15. 3) Sharjah
Cricket
Stadium
New Zealand vs Namibia
• - Namibia won the toss, chose
to bowl (loss)
New Zealand vs Pakistan
• - Pakistan won the toss, chose
to bowl (win)

16. Sharjah Cricket
Stadium (New
Zealand game)

17. 1) Dubai International
Stadium (Australian
game)

18. T20 two finalist Team Luck During
Toss and Helpful Analytical
decisions
Looking at the previous, slides, its pretty clear
how much important it is to be prepare with
what option to choose after toss result. As in
Australian case it has been 100% accuracy on
their luck and match result has been positively
proportionate. The decision made regarding
batting first or second, has helped Australia a
lot in wining the Match. However, it hasn’t
been 100 % in terms on NZ cricketers, they has
even won matches after loosing the toss, but it
has only happened with those teams whose
performance is lower than their cricketers'
performances, but with competitive team,
their luck and analytics decisions have had
helped in keeping winnings in their own hands.