Man, today I got obsessed with Vivrant Sharma’s stats. Wanted to see how he stacked up season after season, like really digging deep, you know? Started from scratch, figuring it’d be straightforward. It wasn’t.
First thing was finding the raw numbers. Headed straight to the stats pages. Man, data was scattered everywhere! Some seasons had detailed breakdowns, others just gave you runs and wickets. Annoying as hell. Had to open like ten different tabs, jumping between official sites and a couple fan wikis people keep updated.
Finally dragged all the numbers into one messy spreadsheet. Season by season, format by format – Tests, ODIs, T20s. Took forever just copying and pasting.
Here’s the raw stuff I had to wrestle with:
- Batting Average: Up-down, up-down. One season he’d be hitting 45+, next season scraping 30. Crazy inconsistency.
- Strike Rate (T20s especially): This told a story. Early seasons? Kinda slow, playing safe. Later seasons? Boom! Started swinging way harder, strike rate jumped big time. You could see he changed his game.
- Bowling Figures: This was tricky. Sometimes he bowled a lot, sometimes barely rolled his arm over. His average per wicket wobbled around a fair bit too.
- Fielding Stats: Dives, catches… mostly steady, but you’d see a season where he became a magnet in the slips.
Just staring at rows of numbers was useless. Needed to see pictures. Fired up the spreadsheet tools. Made some basic graphs – line charts showing his batting average crawling or leaping over the years, bar charts comparing his best and worst seasons with the ball. Seeing it visually? Totally different feel. You could instantly spot the years he was on fire and the ones where he kinda vanished.
The Lightbulb Moment
The biggest takeaway hitting me? It’s all about trends, man, not just individual numbers. When his batting dipped, sometimes his bowling picked up a bit. His aggressive batting kick in the later T20 seasons clearly came at a cost – more risks meant lower averages sometimes, but man did he score faster. It wasn’t just “good season, bad season.” You could see how he adapted, or how different roles in the team changed what he did.
Comparing across seasons showed his journey wasn’t a straight line up. More like a bumpy road with some really high peaks and some rough patches. Makes you appreciate the grind these players go through way more than just looking at a career average.
