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Cricket statisticians - What are your views regarding the Pakistan vs World XI series?

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The world 11 vs Pakistan tour will have matches designated as official T20I status.

Now this is great for the return of cricket to pakistan, but in the past such tours have drawn criticism by cricket statisticians, as a bad performance in such matches could have drastic changes in a players overall avg.

Example, Inzamam would had been avging 50 in test cricket and 40 in one day cricket had he not played those Asia 11 matches
 
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A professional athlete / cricketer should always, and I mean always, be judged on the metrics that he churns out in any and all professionally conducted games or events. If these games are weighted by the ICC as matches that will be recognized in their professional essence then clearly any amount of runs / wickets, scored or taken respectively will have the same weightage as that against any other ICC full member.

The other part of your OP which states the impact of performance et al. Well, I can't speak for others as I do not want to parade in on another man's opinion however IT IS A FACT that Inzaman DOES NOT average 50 in test cricket ~ there are no two ways about it. Similarly if someone fails to perform here then, as a matter of my own opinion, I firmly believe it should be treated as a dip in form and the correct necessary measures taken subsequent to these 'hypothetical' failures.

I am not too sure about the role of statisticians here and how they might view it however, as a Data Analyst and someone who does number crunching for living I can assure you that conclusions on a progression will forever be inaccurate if the sampling process has selection bias. In determining a number series to successfully identify trends an Analyst cannot:

1) Assume factors that might or might not have taken place
2) Have a preconceived notion or a target line before running a progression

These are the two main pitfalls when someone decides to take in, 'statistics' as per say into considering for showing valid criticism or showing some sort of athletic peak. It's actually extremely simple, for accurate and unbiased results one must always sample across the board without any prejudice.
 
To be honest I don't think they should be classed as internationals. It's going to make things like stats hard because say a player reaches a milestone such as 300 T20I wickets or something people will be confused as some wickets will be for or against World XI. However, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. Cricket is coming back to Pakistan and I think the fans who go won't care whether or not they have international status.
 
They should most definitely be regarded as internationals. Such matches always come around for a cause and this is the perfect reason to have such matches.

An extract from an article: All-star teams and World XIs have been a feature of cricket for over 50 years. They have been put together to commemorate events, support causes and get around obstacles. Pakistan cricket faces the major obstacle of teams refusing to play in Pakistan due to security issues, so a World XI, led by Faf du Plessis, has been put together to play three T20 internationals there.
 
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