Indian Australian White Wash 0-4

The recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Series opens many questions on Indian performance.  Overall with 8 innings of 4 Test matches, No batsman could able to score more than 300 runs.  Among the batsman, Kohli is the only person who scored 300 runs facing 579 balls with strike rate of 52%.   When considering the number of Balls faced, Kohli, Tendulkar and Dravid have faced more than 500 balls in 8 innings. 


Looking at the strike rate, we can clearly infer that Indian players are in rush to score runs and never want to be at crease for long time similar to T20 matches, which is the main reason for the recent devastating white wash in Australia.  BCCI should look into these criteria and should select team based on the situation and not on the names to save Indian Test Cricket

Data

Player	Runs Scored in Series	Balls faced in Series	Strike rate in Series
Gambhir	181	445	40.6741573
Sehwag	198	257	77.04280156
Dravid	194	551	35.20871143
Tendulkar	287	518	55.40540541
Laxman	155	390	39.74358974
Kohli	300	579	51.8134715
Dhoni*	102	177	57.62711864
Ashwin*	163	225	72.44444444
Khan	69	86	80.23255814
Sharma	33	140	23.57142857
Yadav	28	81	34.56790123
Kumar*	11	24	45.83333333
Saha*	38	114	33.33333333
*Not played in all 8 innings

Source:
http://scores.sify.com/match/scorecard/AUS_IND_DEC26_DEC30.shtml
http://scores.sify.com/match/scorecard/AUS_IND_JAN03_JAN07.shtml
http://scores.sify.com/match/scorecard/AUS_IND_JAN13_JAN17_2012.shtml
http://scores.sify.com/match/scorecard/AUS_IND_JAN24_JAN28_2012.shtml

From Crude Oil to Petrol bunk

The crude oil is a mixture of long hydrocarbon molecules which are recombined into shorter molecules during refining.  Typically one barrel of crude oil which equals 42 gallons (158 Ltr) will yield 44.6  gallons (164 Ltr) of refined products including tar, gasoline/petrol, diesel and jet fuel to heating oil and natural gas.

Currently crude oil is priced around $110, the following table gives the price of petroleum products to rise in Crude oil price

	Ltr	Cost ($)	Cost Per ltr ($)*	Cost ($)	Cost Per ltr ($)*	Cost ($)	Cost Per ltr ($)*
1 Barrel crude oil	158.8	100	0.629881582	150	0.944822	200	1.259763
Petrol	74.6	47	0.629881582	70.5	0.944822	141	1.889645
Diesel and Heating oil	36.5	23	0.629881582	34.5	0.944822	69	1.889645
Other products	28.6	18	0.629881582	27	0.944822	54	1.889645
Jet fuel	15.9	10	0.629881582	15	0.944822	30	1.889645
Liquified petroleum/ LPG	6.4	4	0.629881582	6	0.944822	12	1.889645
Asphalt/Tar	4.8	3	0.629881582	4.5	0.944822	9	1.889645
*plus production charges

Indian Scenario,  For every Barrel of crude oil imported, the charge of the oil increases by import duty etc.  Finally when it is processed and goes to end user in the form of petrol, for every ltr of petrol, user will have to bear 100% additional charge to the basic crude oil price.

The forecasted fuel price in India, if the current tax system and other charges remain same is illustrated below.

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Barrel cost in $	80	100	150	200
Actual petrol price in Rs.*	23	30	47.2	94.5
Central share  (70% of basic)	18	21	33.04	66.15
State Govt Share (33% of basic, varies from State to State)	8	9.9	15.576	31.185
Transportation  (33% of Basic)	8	9.9	15.576	31.185
Dealer charge	1	1	1	1
Cost to end user Rs.	58	72	112	224
*Considering $ value at Rs. 50

The revenue generated from petrol selling in India, considering the average 5% increase from 2009, 3600,000 barrels per day, accounts for 13100000000 barrels per year for 2012.  The Government revenue generated from petrol sale alone is around 16 lakhs crores for Central Government and 7 lakhs crores for State Government  which off course vary for State to State depending on the taxation.

Watch out for our next blog will focus on alternative resources to reduce petrol consumption.

Sources:

http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/energy/nonrenewable/crude.php

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=in&product=oil&graph=consumption

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100703051931AAaDkQA

http://ajithprasad.com/petrol-diesel-prices-deregulated-india/

Simple Bar graph for Disease Study

Top 10 cause of Death list with the number of publications in year 2011 on them has been represented using simple Bar graph in Excel.

Data:

World	Rank	Deaths in millions	% of deaths	General search (in 1000)	Search in titles/ abstract (in 1000)
Ischaemic heart disease	1	7.25	12.80	13.266	0.298
Stroke and other cerebrovascular disease	2	6.15	10.80	17.723	11.532
Lower respiratory infections	3	3.46	6.10	9.095	1.897
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4	3.28	5.80	3.064	2.341
Diarrhoeal diseases	5	2.46	4.30	3.524	0.859
HIV/AIDS	6	1.78	3.10	16.684	15.017
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers	7	1.39	2.40	9.157	2.389
Tuberculosis	8	1.34	2.40	6.059	5.427
Diabetes mellitus	9	1.26	2.20	15.107	7.1
Road traffic accidents	10	1.21	2.10	1.315	0.308

   Source: WHO : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index.html

   PubMed  : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez