The Statsguru visionary who transformed cricket
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The Statsguru visionary who transformed cricket
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#2> Today, Statsguru might seem a fairly standard piece of coding, but to do that in 1998 was a leap of imagination. Basevi himself was at high school in Australia when he started volunteering, though astonishingly at that point he did not know how to code. Self-taught, he then flew. Statsguru was not a project that Basevi was asked to do; he just came up with the concept, coded it and then suddenly it existed.
Very cool.
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#4Trivia -- the mentioned Imran Khan was shot in an assassination attempt yesterday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Imr...
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#5I had the pleasure of working with Travis during my Cricinfo days and he was fantastic. Picked up some nifty Perl chops from him and in general a great guy to watch Cricket over beers with. I lost touch with him over the last few years and its indeed an extremely sad news.
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#6There should be a movie like moneyball for this guy.