Scoring (cricket) - Detailed Scoring

Detailed Scoring

Cricket scorers keep track of many other facts of the game. As a minimum a scorer would note:

• For each ball, who bowled it and how many runs were scored from it, whether by the batsman with his bat ('off the bat') or byes.
• For each batsman, every scoring run made.
• For each dismissal, the kind of dismissal (e.g. LBW or run out), the bowler (in the case of a bowling, LBW, catch, or stumping), any other player involved (in the case of a catch or stumping), as well as the total the batting team reached at that point in the game ('the fall of wicket'). Example notations as seen on cricket scorecards:

• c fielder b bowler - Caught
• c & b bowler - Caught & bowled (the bowler was also the catching fielder)
• b bowler - Bowled
• lbw b bowler - Leg before wicket
• st wicket-keeper b bowler - Stumped

• For each bowler (his 'figures'), the number of overs bowled, the number of wickets taken, the number of runs conceded, and the number of maiden overs bowled.

Frequently more detail is recorded, for instance, for a batsman, the number of balls faced and the number of minutes batted. Sometimes charts (known as wagon wheels) are prepared showing to which part of the field each scoring shot by a batsman was made (revealing the batman's favourite places to hit the ball)

Technology such as Hawk-Eye allows for more detailed analysis of a bowler's performance. For instance the beehive chart shows where a bowler's balls arrived at a batsman (high, low, wide, on the off stump etc.), while the pitch map shows where the balls pitched (trending toward short, good, or full lengths). Both charts can also show the results of these balls (dots, runs, boundaries, or wickets)