Nicholas Pooran has always been known for his power hitting abilities, but this year, 2024, he has been able to couple consistency, with big hitting. This year, he was able to show the consistency and the impact that managed to elevate him amongst the top T20 players going around.
Total Runs and Key Metrics
In 2024, Pooran accumulated 2022 runs across various T20 matches, including international games and franchise cricket. His overall average for the year stands at 43.02, with his strike rate, an impressive 160.73. These numbers point out not just his ability to score big, but to do so at a rapid pace, a key factor in a modern day T20 game.
- Innings played: 64
- Innings: 63
- Runs: 2,022
- Average: 43.02
- Strike Rate: 160.73
- Hundreds: 0
- Fifties: 14
A deep dive into the Data!
Pooran’s ability to clear the boundary was one of the most significant aspects of his game in 2024. He struck a total of 151 sixes, and just 133 fours, returning a six-to-four ratio of 1.14, scoring more sixes than he does fours.
A ludicrous feat, considering how the other players with the most number of runs in T20s have done this year!
Nicholas Pooran has the second highest six-to-four ratio with 1.14, the only player bettering him in this regard being the South African Heinrich Klassen!
Pooran also made sure he wasn’t chewing up a lot of balls, with a dot ball percentage of just 36.33%, he made sure he was rotating the strike or scoring boundaries, keeping the momentum flowing whenever he was out there!
Compared to Johnson Charles or Andre Fletcher, two fellow West Indians, both with dot ball percentages over 40, Pooran has worked on his short comings and quickly improved them!
Pooran and Klaasen were unicorns when it came to scoring runs via sixes with both of them scoring over 40% of their runs with big hits that clear the ropes, Travis Head is another significant name on the chart, with 46.05% of his runs coming vis 4s!
Pooran, Head, du Plessis, Charles and Salt formed a select few members that scored over 70% of their runs via just boundaries, whereas accumulators like Rassie van der Dussen, Babar Azam, James Vince and Reeza Hendricks score less than 60% of their runs via boundaries!
A bunch of batters have managed to cross the barrier of 1000 T20 runs in 2024, but only a select few have been able to put up numbers that make a player elite!
Only Nicholas Pooran, Travis Head and Ryan Rickelton have managed to combine big runs, high strike rates and a high average! Lot of the players have had great season, but Pooran, Head and Rickelton have had truly record breaking runs in T20s in 2024.
Hendricks, Vince and Azam have played anchor most often than not whereas Klaasen, Salt and du Plessis have made sure their side scored quick runs.
The BASRA (Batting Average and Strike Rate Aggregate) is an ideal metric to measure how much impact a player has had with bat. On paper, a 40(30) looks more appealing, a player has made 40 runs, that is massive.
But in reality, a knock of 25(14) is worth more, and this is where the BASRA metric is used, the higher the aggregate, the more value a player brings and it accounts for power hitters, anchors and sloggers!
Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen and Nicholas Pooran are the only players to have a BASRA over 200, with Pooran possessing the second highest return! A strike rate of 160.73 coupled with 43.02 makes Pooran an extremely dangerous batter!
A miracle worker when he wields the willow, are West Indies missing out on some Nicholas Pooran shaped goodness in their ODI and Tests sides, looking at his utter domination of T20s regardless of where he goes?
All of the data included in this article was sourced from Spoda AI, the world’s first AI model that works with cricket and can answer your in-depth questions! Visit our website and find out data on lines, lengths, players and teams!
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