CEAT Tyres Cricket Rating - the first Global Rating System (27 November 1998)
The top Indian and Sri Lankan tyre company CEAT Ltd, together with Professional Management Group (PMG), India's first sports marketing company, instituted the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year Award, to fulfil a long-felt need in the
27-Nov-1998
27 November 1998
CEAT Tyres Cricket Rating - the first Global Rating System
The Daily News
The top Indian and Sri Lankan tyre company CEAT Ltd, together with
Professional Management Group (PMG), India's first sports marketing
company, instituted the CEAT International Cricketer of the Year
Award, to fulfil a long-felt need in the international cricket arena:
the absence of any method of recognising and rewarding performances
of cricketers at the international level.
With so much cricket being played continuously right across the
world, it was surprising that the only awards that existed were for
cricket played in a particular country. For instance the Wisden
Awards for cricket played in England, UBX New Zealand Cricketer of
the Year award and Mafatlal award for the Indian Cricketer of the
Year. In Sri Lanka, we have our own Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year
award.
The CEAT Cricketing Rating ranks the world's best cricketers on the
basis of their performances in one day internationals as well as Test
matches. This rating system has been devised after extensive
discussions with ex-cricketers, statisticians and cricket
journalists. The system is overseen by three cricketing legends -
Clive Lloyd, Ian Chappell and Sunil Gavaskar. Performances are judged
over a period of 12 months, from 1 May to 30 April - and the player
with the maximum points is declared CEAT International Cricketer of
the year. Last year's award was won by our own Sanath Jayasuriya.
This system of awards has now been extended to a team as well. The
CEAT Team of the Year 1997/98 was Australia.
The method of rating players and teams is entirely objective and is
based on a system of allocating points for achieving certain standard
of performance at international level.
Cricketer of the Year Award
CEAT System of Evaluation Points System
Batting
A fifty in an innings - 1 point, Every 25 runs thereafter in that
particular innings - 1 point, A century in an innings - 3 additional
points as bonus, A double century in an innings - 6 additional points
as bonus.
Bowling
Two wickets in an innings - 1 point, Every subsequent wicket in that
particular innings - 1 point, five wickets in an innings - 3
additional points as bonus, Ten wickets in a match - 6 additional
points as bonus.
Fielding
Every catch - 1 point, Five catches in an innings - 3 additional
points as bonus.
Wicketkeeping
Two dismissals in an innings - 1 point, every subsequent dismissal in
that particular innings - 1 point each, Five dismissals in an innings
- 3 additional points as bonus.
Aside from the points earned by each player, the three adjudicators,
Sunil Gavaskar, Ian Chappell and Clive Lloyd will be given the
batting and bowling of all the players every month. As the cricketing
year progresses the Ceat Efficiency Quotient (CEQ) will be added to
the judging criteria. The CEQ will be obtained by dividing the number
of points earned by the number of innings played. For eg: if two
players have earned 100 points but Player 'A' has played 10 innings
and Player 'B' 5 innings, the CEQ of Player 'A' will be 10 and that
of Player 'B' will be higher at 20. The player with the higher
Efficiency quotient will obviously get a preference in the final
selection.
The award carries a cash prize of half a million Indian rupees.
Cricket Team of the Year
CEAT system of Evaluation Points System
Test match
Outright win - 6 points for home win, 9 points for away win, Tie - 3
points each, Defeat - no points, Series win - 2 bonus points.
One-Day game
Win - 2 points, Tie - 1 point, Abandoned match - no points.
Series win - Bonus points for Series/Tournament wins will be based on
the No. of countries participating in the event. For e.g. Two teams =
2 points, Triangular = 3 points, Quadrangular = 4 points and so on.
World Cup = 12 points.
The final selection of the International Cricket Team will be done by
the three architects of this scheme. Ian Chappell, Clive Lloyd and
Sunil Gavaskar. Aside from the total number of points earned by each
team the judges will take into account the ratio of Test matches to
One Days played, the ratio of home and away series, the quality of
the opposition, the number of matches played etc.
The award carries a cash prize of one million Indian rupees.
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)