is a sport that generates a variety of statistics. Statistics are recorded for each player during a match, and aggregated over a career. At the professional level, statistics for Test cricket, one-day internationals, and first-class cricket are recorded separately. However, since Test matches are a form of first-class cricket, a player's first-class statistics will include their Test match statistics – but not vice versa. Nowadays records are also maintained for List A and Twenty20 limited over matches. These matches are normally limited over games played domestically at the national level by leading Test nations. Since one-day internationals are a form of List A limited over matches, a player's List A statistics will include their ODI match statistics – but not vice versa.
General statistics
Matches : Number of matches played.
Catches : Number of catches taken.
Stumpings : Number of stumpings made.
Batting statistics
Innings : The number of innings in which the batsman actually batted.
Not outs : The number of times the batsman was not out at the conclusion of an innings they batted in.1
Highest score : The highest score ever made by the batsman.
Batting average : The total number of runs divided by the total number of innings in which the batsman was out. Ave = Runs/
Centuries : The number of innings in which the batsman scored one hundred runs or more.
Half-centuries : The number of innings in which the batsman scored fifty to ninety-nine runs.
Balls faced : The total number of balls received, including no-balls but not including wides.
Strike rate : The average number of runs scored per 100 balls faced.
Run rate : The average number of runs a batsman scores in an over of 6 balls.
Net run rate : A method of ranking teams with equal points in limited overs league competitions.
Runs Per Wicket Ratio : The number of runs scored per wicket lost, divided by the number of runs conceded per wicket taken. It is a method of ranking teams with equal points in the league table of the World Test Championship.
1 Batsmen who are not required to bat in a particular innings are not considered "Not Out" in that innings. Only the player/s who have taken to the crease and remained there until the completion of an innings, are marked "Not Out" on the scorecard. For statistical purposes, batsmen who retire due to injury or illness are also deemed not out, while batsmen who retire for any other reason are deemed out, except in exceptional circumstances.
Bowling statistics
Overs : The number of overs bowled.
Balls : The number of balls bowled. Overs is more traditional, but balls is a more useful statistic because the number of balls per over has varied historically.
Bowling analysis : A shorthand notation consisting of a bowler's Overs, Maidens, Runs conceded and Wickets taken, usually for a single innings but sometimes for other periods. For example, an analysis of 10–3–27–2 would indicate that the player bowled ten overs, of which three were maidens, conceded 27 runs and took two wickets.
No-balls : The number of no-balls bowled.
Wides : The number of wides bowled.
Bowling average : The average number of runs conceded per wicket.
Strike rate : The average number of balls bowled per wicket taken.
Economy rate : The average number of runs conceded per over..
Best bowling : The bowler's best bowling performance, defined as firstly the greatest number of wickets, secondly the fewest runs conceded for that number of wickets.
* BBI stands for Best Bowling in Innings and only gives the score for one innings.
* BBM stands for Best Bowling in Match and gives the combined score over 2 or more innings in one match.
Five wickets in an innings : The number of innings in which the bowler took at least five wickets. Four wickets in an innings, the number of innings in which the bowler took exactly four wickets, is sometimes recorded alongside five wickets, especially in limited overs cricket.
Ten wickets in a match : The number of matches in which the bowler took at least ten wickets; recorded for Tests and first-class matches only.
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Dynamic and graphical statistics
The advent of saturation television coverage of professional cricket has provided an impetus to develop new and interesting forms of presenting statistical data to viewers. Television networks have thus invented several new ways of presenting statistics. These include displaying two-dimensional and even three-dimensional plots of shot directions and distances on an overhead view of a cricket field, commonly referred to as a Wagon-Wheel. Other forms include graphs of run scoring and wicket taking numbers plotted against time or balls bowled over a career or within a match. These graphics can be changed dynamically through a computer-controlled back-end, as statistics evolve during a game. Commonly used graphics, especially during a limited-over match, are a worm graph, called so, for the worm-like appearance of the teams' score progression as the overs progress; and; a Manhattan Chart, called so, for its resemblance to the Manhattan skyline.
