From your first over to your next club match. Clear cricket guides, useful calculators and thoughtful advice on the kit you choose.
Explore the rules, scoring and practical skills that help you understand cricket from the first delivery. Start with the basics, then work through batting, bowling, fielding and wicketkeeping explanations with original scenarios, useful practice ideas and answers to the questions new players actually ask.
Work through cricket calculations using free tools that show their methods as well as their results. Convert overs accurately, compare batting and bowling statistics, follow the arithmetic of a chase and understand the limits of tournament net run rate without confusing legal balls with decimal numbers.
Choose cricket equipment by understanding the ball you play with, your available space and the fit you need. Explore bat sizes, materials, protective kit and footwear, then learn practical preparation, cleaning and storage routines that respect the instructions supplied with each item.
Cricket is a contest between a team trying to score runs and a team trying to take wickets and limit those runs. Start with one delivery, then build up to an over, an innings and a match. A bowler delivers toward the striker at the opposite wicket.
Read the guideA scorecard combines the team total with individual batting and bowling records. Read the team line first, then inspect the entries that explain how that total was made. The familiar runs/wickets format shows runs scored and wickets lost, although some Australian displays reverse the order.
Read the guideLeg before wicket is a conditional dismissal, not a rule that every ball touching a pad is out. Work through the ball’s path and the batter’s action before considering where it would have gone. A no ball cannot produce an LBW dismissal. For a qualifying ball, consider where it pitched, where it first struck the person and whether it would have hit the wicket.
Read the guideA useful batting grip lets the bat travel where you intend without making the forearms rigid. Start with a comfortable two-handed grip, then judge it by the straightness of the bat face, your balance and the shots you can repeat. There is room for individual variation.
Read the guideFielding positions describe an area and a relationship to the striker, not permanently painted spots on the grass. Learn the off side and leg side first, then add distance and angle. This lets you understand an instruction even when the captain adjusts you a few metres.
Read the guideThe main formats share batting, bowling and fielding skills, but give teams different amounts of time and different routes to a result. The format changes how a sensible score and a sensible risk are judged. A scheduled Test can last up to five days and normally allows two innings per team.
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Calculate a team’s scoring speed from its runs and legal balls. The tool handles incomplete overs correctly, explains why 18.4 is not a decimal, and shows the working so you can check a scoreboard figure or follow the pace of an innings with confidence.
Use the toolCombine the runs and eligible balls from completed matches to calculate a tournament net run rate. Include all-out innings using the full allowance, inspect both aggregate rates, and understand why averaging individual match figures can give the wrong answer. Special rain-adjusted cases are clearly excluded.
Use the toolTurn a batter’s runs and recorded balls faced into runs per hundred balls. See the formula, follow original worked examples, and understand how strike rate differs from batting average before comparing performances in different roles, match situations or formats of the game.
Use the toolConvert cricket’s overs-and-balls notation into legal balls, or turn a ball count back into complete and incomplete overs. Check practice records and calculator inputs without decimal errors, with clear examples showing how the sixth legal ball completes an over rather than becoming a decimal digit.
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