What data reveals about each country's Cricket World Cup chances

Batting and bowling averages encourage England, but are bleak for Sri Lanka. Australia are in the middle of the pack

• John Ashdown’s at-a-glance guide to the Cricket World Cup

Using bowling and batting data from one day internationals over the past eight years, we plotted how each of the 10 countries might fare at the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The data revealed several trends including the strong all-round chances of the hosts, England, and Sri Lanka’s slim hopes of advancing to the semi-finals.

The scatterplots below show each team’s batting and bowling averages relative to the other teams in the tournament. The bar charts then show the average runs per 50 overs against each of their opponents in the past eight years.

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