Location & Dispersion

England 317-5
v South Africa
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Saturday 2 January 2016

Newlands, Cape Town

69 South African Beer Ticks

Twitter @ball_sup

Forget Root’s average (54.68). What's his standard deviation? (Statistics lesson follows). You can average 50 by scoring nought & 100 in alternate innings. Or you can average 50 by scoring 50 in each & every innings.

We statisticians like to know what the average is & how far on average each score differs from the average. Dispersion. Variance. Alternating nought & 100 has high dispersion/variance from the average.
Fifty each & every innings has low dispersion/variance from the average.

We cricket tragics don't know what we want. Deal or No Deal. But, Root is annoying me now. It feels like he's making his average in each game & not going on to 100s.

Churlish. Some brainless cricket out there. Compton giving it away on the stroke of Tea & exposing Taylor. Who is out first ball after Tea.

223 for 5. When Root was out for his average was Piss Poor. After the starts everyone except Taylor got.

Stokes & Bairstow have got ‘em from ordinary to bossing it a bit.

Devils Peak Brewing Co., First Light on Keg at 4.5%. Turns out I'm a reciprocal Member at the exclusive Kelvin Grove Club. Through (of all things) my Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Membership. Further turned out there is a tick or two in their Pool Bar.

Woodstock Brewery, Californicator American IPA from a bottle at 6.5% KLAXON alert. A Hop Bomber. Superb. Orange bitterness.

Gallows Hill Brewing Co., India Pale Ale (Centennial) from a bottle at 6.5%. Quite an extreme bitterness. I like it. But the bitterness is a little one dimensional. Just very bitter. Little else coming out.

Aegir Project, Giant IPA from a bottle at 6%.

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