PCM.AI
What The Scorecard Missed

How PCM
Sees Sport

Not who scored. Not who won.
When control shifted — and why.

Every match has a scorecard. The scorecard tells you what happened. PCM tells you something different: which team was in control, at what moment that changed, and what the scorecard will never show you.

Every Match. Four Phases.

PCM breaks every T20 innings into four phases. Control in each phase is measured — not assumed.

Phase 01
The First Six Overs
Overs 1–6
Who set the platform. Who gave it away.
Phase 02
The Middle Overs
Overs 7–12
The phase most people ignore. The phase that decides most matches.
Phase 03
The Acceleration
Overs 13–16
Who imposed their tempo. Who was forced to react.
Phase 04
The Death
Overs 17–20
The most watched phase. Often the least decisive.

The death overs are the most visible phase of a T20 match. They are rarely the most decisive.

PCM doesn't measure runs alone. It measures control.

What PCM Measures

Control
Which team dominated each phase — not by how many runs, but by how structurally they batted and bowled.
The Turning Point
The exact phase where control shifted. Every match has one. Most scorecards hide it.
The Gap
The structural distance between the two teams. A narrow gap means a contested match. A wide gap means the result was decided early.

Every Match Gets a Verdict

Dominant
One team controlled every phase. The result was never in doubt.
Controlled
One team led structurally throughout, with moments of contest.
Contested
Control shifted. Either team could have won.
Uncontrolled
Neither team imposed structure. The match was decided by errors, not dominance.
No scores. No numbers. No thresholds.
No weights. No percentages.

Built on Real Matches

PCM has been computed across 7,979 cricket matches. Every verdict is grounded in structural evidence — not opinion, not summary.

7,979
Cricket Matches Analysed
Structural computation across T20 and ODI cricket · Continuously updated

Why This Exists

Rajarshi Gupta spent nearly 20 years in cricket journalism — at ESPN STAR Sports, Cricbuzz, NDTV, India Today Digital and InsideSport.

The Phase Control Model is his answer. It was not built by data scientists. It was built from two decades of asking the same question from inside the press box: what actually decided this match?

Rajarshi Gupta · Founder, PCM.AI · What The Scorecard Missed

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