Net run-rate is the common method for differentiating teams level on points in a limited-overs cricket tournament.<\/p>\n
It is a formula that measures a team’s average margin of victory, or defeat – a side with several big wins will have a positive net run-rate, while those who have suffered sizeable losses will have a negative one.<\/p>\n
To understand net run-rate, you have to first get your head around run-rate.<\/p>\n
That’s the average number of runs scored per over by a team in the innings of one match – so, for example, a score of 140 off 20 overs for Team A equals seven runs per over.<\/p>\n
Net run-rate is then calculated by subtracting the opposition’s run-rate from the other team’s run-rate.<\/p>\n
So if Team B scored 130 off 20 overs, their run-rate would be 6.5 runs per over.<\/p>\n
Therefore Team A would emerge from the encounter with a positive net-run rate of 0.500 (7 – 6.5), while Team B would take away one of -0.500 (6.5 – 7).<\/p>\n
Once a side has played more than one match in a competition, these figures are calculated cumulatively.<\/p>\n
Let’s say Team A scored 160 runs from 20 overs in their next match, then they would have a tournament total of 300 runs, divided by 40 overs – a run-rate of 7.5.<\/p>\n
If their second opponents scored 180 runs from 20 overs, we first add that to Team B’s score, making 310 divided by 40 overs – that makes 7.75.<\/p>\n
Take 7.75 from 7.5 and Team A end up with a run-rate of -0.25.<\/p>\n
Are we done with the calculations now? Well, not quite…<\/p>\n
If a team loses and is bowled out early, then we wouldn’t want to divide their score by the overs they played, as that would potentially deliver them a higher run-rate than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Therefore if a team is bowled out inside their allotted overs, their run-rate is calculated by dividing their runs by the maximum overs they could have batted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Net run-rate is the common method for differentiating teams level on points in a limited-overs cricket tournament. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-506251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}