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SAN DIEGO -- Chargers wide receiver Travis Benjamin was reprimanded during Mondays practice -- thats a positive.I kind of had a couple tempo violations where I was going faster than the other guys and they told me to slow down, Benjamin said. I was just feeling happy, and knowing that I could pick it up and run faster.Benjamin was eager to display his speed in the teams first workout after its bye. In a light session on a damp field, Benjamin was raring to show that his ailing knee is fine.It felt good to be back out there, said Benjamin, who has missed two games. Well see how it goes this week.Benjamin was among the Chargers returning to practice after being injured leading up last weeks bye. Also working and looking as if theyll play on Sunday at Houston were strong safety Jahleel Addae (clavicle) and inside linebacker Denzel Perryman (hamstring).Its great to get Denzel back on the field, coach Mike McCoy said. We all know what type of player he is, with his knowledge of the system and the play-making ability that he has. So anytime you can get any player back it is always a bonus for our team.Especially if Perryman, the teams top run-stopper, can stay fit for the next six games. In four of those contests, the opposition averages at least 4 yards per carry. Perryman hasnt played since Oct. 30.Addae, another physical player, could deliver some brawn to a run defense which is ranked in the top 10. Although its a unit which will no longer feature nose tackle Brandon Mebane, who suffered a season-ending biceps injury in the loss to Miami on Nov. 13.The way (Addae) plays the game, his passion, it doesnt matter if its during practice today or Sunday at kickoff, McCoy said. You love everything about him. It was great to see him out there at practice today.Dwight Lowery, the Chargers free safety signed in the offseason, agreed.He has the most experience out of everybody in the room, Lowery said. So to bring his energy, passion, physicality, passion and also his knowledge of the defense is going to help us tremendously I believe. It will be a lift to have him out there.Two key players didnt return. Cornerback Brandon Flowers (concussion) and inside linebacker Jatavis Brown (knee) were unable to go.It appears the last-place Chargers (4-6) wont be going to the playoffs for the sixth time in seven seasons. But quarterback Philip Rivers gathered his teammates after practice and stressed for them to keep fighting.Phil told us that everyone wishes we could go back in time and change one little thing we did in the losses that we had, rookie defensive end Joey Bosa said. But obviously we cant do that. Looking forward we have six games left and that is really all we can handle. That is what we are focused on. Our goal is to go 6-0.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Devin Hester Bears Jersey . 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Siddikur, whose previous win on the circuit came in Brunei three years ago, finished his bogey-free round with a birdie on the 18th for a total of 17-under 199. Indias Shiv Chowrasia, who has finished runner-up in this tournament twice, was in second place after a 66. The things that are measured in cricket are typically self-evident. Interpretation is not required to count runs, wickets, deliveries, extras, boundaries or sixes. Other sports have embraced measurements that require interpretation. In tennis a distinction is made between a forced error and an unforced error. In baseball, earned runs and unearned runs are distinguished by judging whether or not a safe hit was the result of a fielding error or not. Baseball also has the concept of defensive indifference. In American football, things like decisive passes and assists and tackles are counted systematically.ESPNcricinfo records a control measurement for every delivery added to its database. This measure is based on the answer to the question Was the batsman in control of the ball? Two answers are possible - yes (in control) and no (not in control), but it is not always self-evident whether or not the batsman was in control or not in control. This is probably the very first attempt in cricket to develop a measure that involves the systematic use of judgement.If the bowler beats the bat, finds the edge, or induces a miscue, then even if no dismissal results, the batsman is said to be not in control. A lofted drive off the middle of the bat that results in a catch at the boundary is not in control. As readers will notice, these conclusions require the exercise of judgment. It follows that some judgements will be easily arrived at, others not so much. A classic example is when a batsman is tested just outside off stump and starts out playing at the ball but withdraws the bat at the last minute. Was the bat withdrawn in time? Whether or not the batsman is judged to be in control of the delivery will depend on the answer to this question.Currently this measure is applied to all types of cricket. This post is about what the control measurement tells us, and what it doesnt. At the end, I propose that T20, and perhaps the limited-overs game generally, requires a second measure to go with control.Here is a summary of the control measurement for the 2016 IPL, based on ball-by-ball details provided by ESPNcricinfo. The summary is prepared as a proportion of 120 balls faced. For instance, the average losing team in the 2016 IPL was in control of 88 out of 120 balls and scored 132 off those deliveries. An earlier analysis shows that on average, the batsman is not in control of one in every four deliveries faced in T20, and this figure holds for the 2016 IPL. The scoring rate off these not-in-control deliveries in the 2016 IPL is about three runs per over. Most dismissals occur when the batsman is not in control (this is due to the way the control measurement is defined).In the 2016 IPL, of the 90 or so deliveries in a T20 innings in which the batsman is in control, winning teams that set targets scored 34 runs more (165) than defeated teams that set targets (131). Winning teams scored, on average, two runs per over faster off those deliveries.For chasing teams, the scoring rate in control was about the same (about 9.5 runs per over) in wins and defeats, but winners remained in control for ten balls more than defeated teams.Put another way, when a team bats first, success depends on their ability to hit as relentleessly as possible.dddddddddddd On the other hand, for a chasing team, success depends on hitting just enough for the longest possible time.Consider a player who makes 50 (off 30 balls) against a spread-out field while being in control for 24 out of those 30 balls faced. This player is in control 80% of the time. By T20 standards, this is above average control. What if the total came with five sixes, one four, 16 singles and eight dots? Against a spread-out field, singles are uncontested. Even the fielders inside the circle stand on the edge, happy to concede one in the hope of saving a couple of extra boundaries. It would be useful to know whether the singles were the result of hard hits that failed to find the boundary, or whether they were simply pushed to the fielders in the deep. While this type of innings may make sense in a chase, it is less valuable when batting first.The control measurement does not tell us this part of the story. In a Test match, this is not particularly significant. Risks are taken far less frequently in Test cricket. Wickets are the single most significant resource by a large distance. Since most Test matches that yield an outright result end before the full 15 sessions of play are completed, it could be reasonably argued that wickets are the only significant resource in a Test. Consequently, the ability to score runs reliably is paramount because it suggests that the player can be relied upon to make runs consistently.In T20, higher control is not necessarily better. Most teams do not use up their full quota of wickets in 20 overs. They could afford to lose a wicket or two chasing a few extra boundaries. In order to measure this effort, the control measurement needs to be accompanied by a hitting measurement. One approach to this measurement would be to provide an answer to the question Did the batsman attempt to hit a boundary? The answer ought to take into account the field setting among other things. Perhaps the measurement could even be termed boundary attempts.Instead of averages and strike rates, T20 batsmen could be measured by how much control they are able to enforce (or in the case of bowlers, how little they are able to concede) and how many boundaries they attempt to hit. For example, take a batsman who attempts a boundary once every three deliveries, or a bowler who forces batsmen to be not in control on 11 out of 24 deliveries. This could then be extended to consider the boundary attempts per dismissal, and the boundary attempts per balls faced. Much like hitters in baseball go through hot streaks and slumps, the form of T20 hitters could be measured on the basis of these measurements. A derivative measure could be control on boundary attempts (since not every not-in-control delivery produces a wicket).Together, control and boundary attempts (or hitting) represent the trade-off in the T20 game and could provide a language to describe T20. If T20 is to emerge out of the mother games vast shadow, such a language, which permits the measurement of merit in T20 on its own terms, is vital for T20 as well as for cricket in general. ' ' '