A DEA Model for Selection of Indian Cricket Team Players

Cricket has become one of the most popular sport tournaments in the world over the last few decades. To form a winning team for cricket tournaments, analysis & evaluation of past performance of the cricket players is required to select players strategically. This paper suggests an effective technique for selecting Indian Cricket Team members by measuring the efficiency of cricket players using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results obtained by the technique suggested in this paper are in sync with the team players selected by the cricket board.