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Net run rate is the run rate a team has scored at across a tournament minus the run rate it has conceded. Two details cause almost every wrong answer, and this calculator handles both.
= 120 legal balls
| # | Runs scored | Overs faced | All out | Runs conceded | Overs bowled | Opp. all out | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Net run rate
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This is a general calculation. Individual competitions vary in how they treat bonus points, abandoned matches and reduced-overs games, so an official table may differ.
An overs figure is a two-part display value, not a decimal number. 19.4 overs means nineteen completed overs plus four legal deliveries — that is 118 balls, which is 19.667 overs.
Dividing runs by 19.4 gives a different, wrong answer. A side that made 165 from 19.4 overs scored at 8.39 an over (165 ÷ 19.667), not 8.51 (165 ÷ 19.4). Across a tournament that error compounds and can change who qualifies.
Everything on this site — this calculator, every points table, every run rate on every scorecard — works in legal balls internally and converts to the display form only at the last moment.
Under the regulations most competitions use, a side that is bowled out is charged the full quota of overs, not the overs it actually used.
Being dismissed for 120 in 30 of a possible 50 overs counts as 120 runs from 50 overs — a run rate of 2.40, not the 4.00 the scorecard appears to show. Without this rule a team could improve its net run rate by getting bowled out quickly, which is plainly the wrong incentive.
Tick All out on a row above to see the adjustment applied and explained.
Competition regulations differ. Some award bonus points, some exclude abandoned matches differently, and reduced-overs matches can be treated in more than one way. This calculator applies the common rules and says so; an official table published by a governing body is authoritative where the two disagree.
Where a competition’s own regulations have been configured in our database, the points tables on series pages use those rules and say which ones were applied.