CPL 2018: Munro keeps piling them up in season of record scores
CPL 2018 broke records for the most sixes, the most 200+ totals, and the most overs with 30+ runs
The Caribbean Premier League 2018, which was won by Trinbago Knight Riders, had the highest ever scoring rate in the tournament's history. The average run rate in this edition of the tournament was 8.53, which was about 0.4 runs higher than the previous best: 8.13 in 2016. The run rate in the last edition was 7.93 per over. However, the scoring rate at the start of the edition was 9.01 in the first 12 matches, before dropping off a bit.
Year | Run rate | Ave runs per wkt | 200+ totals | Sixes | BpB |
2013 | 6.98 | 21.25 | 0 | 240 | 8.25 |
2014 | 7.62 | 24.85 | 1 | 386 | 7.04 |
2015 | 7.53 | 22.42 | 1 | 383 | 6.98 |
2016 | 8.13 | 25.74 | 2 | 434 | 8.80 |
2017 | 7.93 | 24.43 | 2 | 448 | 6.64 |
2018 | 8.52 | 26.63 | 9 | 530 | 5.68 |
Trinbago Knight Riders won their second successive CPL title and their third in four seasons. While Trinbago are the most successful side in the tournament, Guyana Amazon Warriors have been runners-up four times in the six seasons. In the last four years, no team has won more T20 tiles than Trinbago and no team has lost more T20 finals than Guyana. Titans, of South Africa, have also won three titles in the last four years.
The number of overs than yielded 30 or more runs in this edition of CPL were four. The highest was 32 runs, and there were three overs worth 30 runs. There were another five overs of 27 runs each. Comparing this to other T20 tournaments, there was no such over of 30+ in this year's Indian Premier League. In the first four seasons of CPL, there were only two overs of 30 or more runs.
Colin Munro smashed 567 runs in CPL 2018, easily the most by a batsman in any edition of the CPL. Chadwick Walton's 458 in the 2017 season was the previous highest. Munro scored 109 runs more than that tally. He averaged 51.54, scoring at strike rate of 140.34, and hit six fifties in 13 innings. Munro has made 350-plus runs in each of the last three seasons of the CPL; no other batsman in the tournament has scored more runs than his 1315 runs in 37 innings in this period.
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Type | Best | Worst |
Smart Strike Rate | Dwayne Bravo (252.81) | David Warner (82.46) |
Smart Batting Index | Colin Munro (23.25) | Evin Lewis (-12.29) |
Smart Runs | Colin Munro (601.86) | Martin Guptill (95.54) |
Smart Runs Contribution | Dwayne Bravo (71.62) | David Warner (-57.53) |
Type | Best | Worst |
Smart Economy | Imran Tahir (4.23) | Dwayne Bravo (11.77) |
Smart Runs saved | Imran Tahir (-80.56) | Rayad Emrit (55.24) |
Dot Ball Pressure | Sandeep Lamichhane (1.86) | Adam Zampa (0.11) |
Bharath Seervi is stats sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @SeerviBharath