Cricket Scoreboard

A team's score is written as runs for wickets: 145/3 means 145 runs scored and 3 batters out. Runs come off the bat when the batters run between the wickets, or as boundaries — four when the ball reaches the rope along the ground, six when it clears it on the full.

Extras are runs that do not belong to any batter. They matter for the bowler as well as the team, because two of the four are charged to the bowler's figures and two are not.

• An over is six legal deliveries. Wides and no-balls are bowled again, so an over with two wides in it takes eight balls.
• Batters change ends on odd runs, and again at the end of every over — the board does both for you, and “Swap strike” fixes the odd case where they crossed before a catch.
• A wicket is credited to the bowler when the batter is bowled, caught, lbw, stumped or hit wicket. A run out is not the bowler's doing, so it goes against the team only.
• The innings ends when the overs run out, when the side is all out (ten wickets for a full eleven), or when the captain declares. In a chase it also ends the moment the target is passed.

The number in brackets is overs and balls, not a decimal: 17.4 means seventeen completed overs plus four balls of the eighteenth, which is 106 legal deliveries. The next ball makes it 17.5, and after 17.5 comes 18.0 — there is no 17.6.

CRR is the current run rate: runs divided by overs, or runs × 6 ÷ balls. At 145 off 17.4 the rate is 8.21 an over. A bowler's figures read overs–maidens–runs–wickets, so 3.4-0-28-2 is three overs and four balls, no maidens, 28 runs conceded and two wickets. A maiden is an over in which the bowler concedes nothing; byes and leg byes do not spoil it, because they are not charged to the bowler, but a single wide does.

This board is built for limited-overs cricket — T20, 50-over and club games of any length — where each side bats once and the innings has a fixed number of overs. Test and first-class cricket run to four innings with no over limit and a follow-on, which is a different scoring job and not what this page does.

In the second innings the team batting has a target: one more run than the first innings total. Score 187 first and the target is 188, because 187 is a tie. The board shows the target, the runs still required, the balls remaining and the required run rate — required runs × 6 ÷ balls left — and updates all four after every delivery.

When the chase succeeds the margin is given in wickets in hand: nine wickets down out of ten leaves a win by one wicket. When it fails, the margin is in runs: the difference between the two totals. Level scores with the innings complete is a tie.

Duckworth–Lewis–Stern is not applied here. If rain shortens a chase, the revised target comes from the official DLS calculation; put the new target in by setting the overs and scoring from there, and treat the board as a display rather than the authority on the result.

• Runs, wickets and overs.balls, with the current run rate and a full extras breakdown (byes, leg byes, wides, no-balls).
• Striker and non-striker with runs and balls faced, marked with an asterisk for whoever is on strike. Balls faced follow the usual scoring convention: legal deliveries and no-balls count, wides do not.
• The bowler on now with overs–maidens–runs–wickets, and a ball-by-ball list of the current over. Bring a bowler back for a second spell by name and their figures carry on from where they stopped.
• Target, runs required, balls remaining and required run rate through the second innings, then the result in the right form: by wickets, by runs, or tied.
• Settings for team names and colours, overs per innings, players per side and how many wickets end an innings — useful for indoor and eight-a-side games.
• Score from the boundary on a phone and put the view link on a laptop or TV by the tea hut; only the person with the edit link can change anything.
• Keep one thumb on the run buttons and record the ball before the bowler walks back. If you fall behind, Undo in the toolbar steps back through the deliveries one at a time.