How to figure out how many matches in a tournament were won by the side batting first (or second)

howToGetTournamentWinsByBattingOrder

# How to find out how many matches were won by the side batting first vs. second in IPL 7

1. copy the text in the 'Results' table (here: http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2014/engine/series/695871.html) to your clipboard (select, Ctrl-C)
2. paste it in a text file (save as say 'ipl7.txt')
3. in Terminal (on OSX, Linux, cygwin), type: 'grep runs <path to ipl7.txt> |wc -l' (without quotes) to get the number of matches won by the side batting first. type 'grep wickets <path to ipl7.txt> |wc -l' (without quotes) to get the number of matches won by the side batting second.

This will do it in one command.

grep 'won by' <path to ipl7.txt> | awk '{if ($6 == "runs") { print "first" } else { print "second" } }' | sort | uniq -c