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In modern day cricket, no required run rate is too high.
ESPNcricinfo on Twitter. In matches with tiebreakers (such as a Super Over), a chasing team can win the game while scoring slightly below the required run rate, so long as they tie with the other team.
In cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
, the required run rate (RRR), or asking rate, is the run rate (the average number of runs per over) the batting side must achieve in order to win the present match. Expressed differently, it is the total number of runs required of the batting team to win the match, divided by the total number of overs remaining in the match.
The required run rate is typically a statistic that is tracked in real-time during a limited-overs match, including Twenty20 and One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
matches. It is usually shown in the second innings
An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat. Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker or nonstriker). Innings, in cricket, and rounders, is bot ...
, when the side batting in that innings is chasing the other's run total from the first innings. Higher required run rates are more difficult to achieve, since batsmen are forced to score more runs within a limited number of deliveries from the bowling side. The required run rate can also be used in Test cricket, usually in the fourth innings of a match, when the batting side is chasing the opposing team's total with a limited number of possible overs left to play, though use of the term is less common in this form of the game.
In recent times, required run rates have often tended to be particularly high as batting sides have grown increasingly accustomed to chasing high run totals, especially in Twenty20 cricket.ESPNcricinfoIn modern day cricket, no required run rate is too high.
ESPNcricinfo on Twitter. In matches with tiebreakers (such as a Super Over), a chasing team can win the game while scoring slightly below the required run rate, so long as they tie with the other team.
See also
* Cricket terminology * Run rate * Net run rate *Economy rate (cricket)
In cricket, a bowler's economy rate is the average number of runs they have conceded per over bowled. In most circumstances, the lower the economy rate is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare b ...
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