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How to score in cricket

Batsmen strike the ball from the battingunaccredited to any batsmen. These runs are
crease, with the flat surface of a woodenknown as extras, apart from in Australia
bat. If the batsman hits the ball with hiswhere they are also called sundries. Extras
bat, it is called a shot (or stroke). If theconsist of byes, leg byes, no balls, wides
ball brushes the side of the bat it is calledand penalty runs. The former two are runs
an edge or snick. Shots are named accordingthat can be scored if the batsman misses
to the style of swing and the directionmaking contact with bat and ball, and the
aimed. As part of the team's strategy, he maylatter two are types of fouls committed by
bat defensively, blocking the ball downwards,the bowler. For serious infractions such as
or aggressively, hitting the ball hard totampering with the ball, deliberate
empty spaces in order to score runs. There istime-wasting, and damaging the pitch, the
no  requirement to run if the ball is struck.umpires may award penalty extras to the
opposition; in each case five runs. Five
Batsmen come in to bat in a batting order,penalty runs are also awarded if a fielder
decided by the team captain. The first twouses anything other than his body to field
positions, the "openers", face the mostthe ball, or if the ball hits a protective
hostile bowling, from fast bowlers at theirhelmet left on the field by the fielding
freshest and with a new ball. After that, theteam. A team need not be batting in order to
team typically bats in descending order ofreceive  penalty  extras.
batting skill, the first five or six batsmen
usually being the best in the team. ThenThe score of a cricket team whose innings is
follow the all-rounders—bowlers orin progress is given as the number of runs
wicket-keepers who can batthey have scored "for" the number of wickets
decently—and finally the pure bowlerstheir opponents have taken. For example, a
who rarely score well. This order may beteam that has scored 100 runs and lost three
changed at any time during the course of thewickets has a score of "a hundred for three",
game  for  strategic  reasons.written 100-3. A team that is dismissed
having scored 300 runs is said to have a
Run  scoringscore of "three hundred all out" (or,
confusingly, to be "all out for three
To score a run, a striker must hit the ballhundred"), rather than "three hundred for
and run to the opposite end of the pitch,ten"; the score for the innings is then
while his non-striking partner runs to hissimply written 300. However, if a team
end. To register a run, both runners mustdeclares their innings closed, the number of
touch the ground behind the popping creasewickets is included in their score for the
with either their bats or their bodies. Ifinnings,  for  example  300-8d.
the striker hits the ball well enough, the
batsmen may double back to score two or moreIn a two innings match, the scores of each
runs. This is known as running betweenteam for their two innings are given
wickets. However, no rule requires theseparately. An example of a score for a two
batsman to run upon striking the ball. If theinnings match in progress would be: Team A
batsmen score an odd number of runs, then240 & 300-7d, Team B 225 & 130-4. This
they will have swapped ends and their rolesindicates that Team A in their first innings
as striker and non-striker will be reversedscored 240 runs, and Team B made 225 in
for the next ball, unless the most recentreply. Team A then made 300 for 7 in their
ball  marks  the  end  of  an  over.second innings, declaring it closed, and Team
B  are  currently  130  for  4.
If a fielder knocks the bails off the stumps
with the ball while no batsman is groundedThe exception to this is Australia, where it
behind the nearest popping crease, theis conventional to reverse the wickets and
nearest batsman is run out. If the ball goesruns scored, so that what would be written
over the boundary, then four runs are scored,300-5 elsewhere in the world is written and
or  six  if  the  ball  has  not  bounced.said  5-300  in  Australia.
ExtrasThe notation used for cricket scores (large
number, dash, small number) has led to the
Every run scored by the batsmen contributesuse of the term cricket score to describe a
to the team's total. A team's total alsovery one-sided scoreline in other sports such
includes a number of runs which areas rugby and football (soccer).



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