Cricket is a top-rated game, and with its immense popularity comes an entire world of terminology, rules, and regulations. One of the most important concepts to understand in cricket is the idea of innings. Innings in cricket is a term used to describe a turn of the team batting, where the batting side attempts to […]

In cricket, the term ‘wide ball’ is usually referred to as a delivery bowled by the bowler adjudged by the umpire if the ball passes wide or too high for the batsman to get his bat on the ball sufficiently using a normal cricket stroke. For every wide ball, the batting team gets an extra […]

In cricket, the run rate can be defined as the average number of runs scored per over by the batting team. The total number of runs scored by the batting side divided by the number of total overs bowled is the formula for calculating a team’s run rate at any stage of the innings. The […]

The cricketing term “dot ball” came into existence as a ball without any runs scored off it is recorded as a single dot in the scorebook. Any batsman unable to score runs against the fielding team will have their tally of dot balls increase throughout the match. In limited-overs cricket, especially in T20 Cricket or […]

In cricket, the term ‘boundary’ is usually referred to as a ‘perimeter of the playing field’ or ‘a scoring shot’ where the ball crosses the set perimeter earning four or six runs for the batting team. It is often referred to as the boundary if we draw an imaginary straight line from the stumps and […]