# Bernoulli Runs: Using "Book Cricket" to Evaluate Cricketers

**Authors:** Anand Ramalingam  
**arXiv:** [1107.3104](https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3104)  
**Date:** 2011-07-15  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/1107.3104v1/

## Abstract

This paper proposes a simple method to evaluate batsmen and bowlers in cricket. The idea in this paper refines "book cricket" and evaluates a batsman by answering the question: How many runs a team consisting of same player replicated eleven times will score?