Run Rate Calculator

Divide the runs scored by the overs faced. A team on 142 after 30 overs has a run rate of 4.73. If the innings is mid-over, convert first: 30.4 overs is 184 balls, which is 30.67 decimal overs.

CRR is the current run rate — the runs scored so far divided by the overs used so far. It usually appears next to RRR, the required run rate, which is the runs still needed divided by the overs still left.

Yes. Every run on the board counts, including byes, leg byes, wides, no-balls and penalty runs, because the run rate measures the innings rather than any individual. A bowler's economy rate is narrower and excludes byes and leg byes.

Convert the overs into balls and divide by six. The digits after the point in cricket notation count balls, not tenths, so 30.4 overs means 184 balls and divides as 30.67 rather than 30.4.

Around five to six an over across fifty overs puts a side in a competitive position, though the par score varies enormously with the ground, the pitch and the conditions. A rate is only meaningful judged against what the venue usually yields.

Around eight an over is a competitive par across twenty overs, giving roughly 160, but the figure moves a great deal with the ground and the surface. A rate that wins comfortably on a slow pitch can be twenty runs short on a small ground with a quick outfield.

Run rate describes a single innings: runs divided by overs. Net run rate describes a whole tournament and is the rate a side scores at minus the rate it concedes, summed across every completed match. One is a snapshot, the other a running balance used to separate teams level on points.

Yes. A team run rate counts every run on the board, including wides, no-balls, byes, leg byes and penalty runs, because all of them move the score. This is why the bowlers' runs conceded will not add up to the team total: byes and leg byes are charged to nobody.

Rain-affected games were settled by average run rate and later by a most-productive-overs rule, both of which ignored wickets in hand. They produced results widely regarded as unfair — most notoriously in the 1992 World Cup semi-final — and the resource-based Duckworth-Lewis method was adopted to value overs and wickets together.