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Cricket Score Counter
A cricket score counter keeps runs and wickets and counts the overs by legal balls. This one adds wides and no-balls without using up a ball, keeps byes and leg byes as extras, tracks the free hit, and shows the run rate, the target and the required rate in a chase.
Free, no sign-up, works offline, and nothing leaves this browser.
Team A bat first: 20 overs, 10 wickets.
Team A 0/0 after 0.0 overs
Six legal balls an over. Wides and no-balls are bowled again.
This over
| Team | Score | Overs | Run rate | Extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team A | 0/0 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Team B | Yet to bat | — | — | — |
Tap the runs for each delivery: 0 for a dot ball, 4 or 6 for a boundary. For an extra, tap Wide, No ball, Bye or Leg bye first, then the runs the batters ran (0 if none). For a wicket, tap Wicket and then how the batter was out; for a run out, then tap the runs completed. Other is obstructing the field or hitting the ball twice. Keys: 0 to 6 score a delivery, Ctrl+Z undoes.
This keeps the team’s score and the overs; it does not umpire the match. It applies the Laws of Cricket on the over (Law 17), no-balls (Law 21), wides (Law 22) and byes and leg byes (Law 23), and the free hit from the international limited-overs playing conditions. It does not decide whether a ball was wide or a batter out, keep each batter’s or bowler’s figures, work out a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern target after rain, or score two-innings matches, and it is not an official scorebook.
Adding runs is easy. The over is where a count goes wrong: a wide or a no-ball is not one of the six balls, a free hit changes how a batter can be out, and 18.3 overs is not 18.3 when you work out a run rate.
In cricket, a team’s score is its runs and the wickets it has lost, written 142/6. An over is six legal balls from one bowler; extras such as wides and no-balls add runs to the team, and a limited-overs innings ends when its overs are bowled or ten wickets fall.
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Key facts
| Detail | Answer |
|---|---|
| Price | Free, no sign-up, no ads |
| Keeps | Runs, wickets, overs and balls, run rate, and the extras by type |
| The over | Six legal balls; wides and no-balls are added and bowled again |
| Extras | Wides, no-balls, byes, leg byes and 5 penalty runs |
| Free hit | After every no-ball, carried on by a wide or no-ball, with a switch to turn it off |
| Dismissals | Refuses the ones the Laws rule out off a wide, a no-ball or a free hit |
| Run rate | Runs × 6 ÷ legal balls, never divided by the overs notation |
| The chase | Target, runs needed, balls left and the required run rate |
| Result | Won by wickets with balls remaining, by runs, or tied |
| Formats | T20, 50-over one-day, or any number of overs from 1 to 50; 6 to 11 a side |
| Undo | Every delivery, penalty and innings change |
| Where data goes | Nowhere. Local storage in this browser only |
How to keep score in cricket with the counter
Set the format once, then tap every delivery.
Choose the format
T20, one-day or another number of overs, and the players a side. They decide when an innings ends, so changing them starts a new match.
Name the teams
The team batting first, then the team chasing.
Tap every delivery
The runs off each ball: 0 for a dot, 4 or 6 for a boundary. The overs move on only for legal balls.
Mark the extras first
Tap Wide, No ball, Bye or Leg bye, then the runs the batters ran. A wide or no-ball adds its penalty run and does not use up a ball.
Record wickets
Tap Wicket, then how the batter was out. For a run out, tap the runs completed. Dismissals the Laws rule out, such as bowled off a no-ball, are refused.
Let the chase run itself
At the end of the first innings the target appears, with runs needed, balls left and the required rate. The result is written when the chase ends.
Where a cricket score counter gets used
Any match without a scorer’s box, and anyone who wants the overs right.
Club and village cricket
A second scorer on a phone, checking the book’s total, wickets and overs after every over.
Junior and school matches
Short formats of any length, with fewer than 11 a side and no free hits if the league plays to the Laws.
Backyard and gully cricket
Just the runs, the wickets and the balls left, with nothing to install or sign up for.
Indoor and six-a-side
Six to ten a side, so the innings ends at the right number of wickets.
Watching on TV
Follow a T20 or one-day chase ball by ball and see the real required rate, not one worked out from the overs notation.
Learning to score
New scorers can check how each wide, no-ball, bye and free hit should change the score and the over.
What counts as a ball: wides, no-balls, byes, leg byes and the free hit
A cricket score is easy to add up and easy to get wrong, because not every delivery is a ball. Law 17 makes an over six legal balls, and a wide or a no-ball is not one of them: it adds a run and is bowled again. The free cricket scorers at the top of a search on 2026-09-30 handle this unevenly. The first result is a GitHub scoreboard that adds a ball on every tap, so a wide moves the over on. ScoreCount’s projector scoreboard does not mention run rate, undo or free hits. Cricket-score-counter.com treats extras correctly but saves a match only with a login, and none of them tracks the free hit.
| Delivery | One of the six? | Runs to the team | Credited as | Batter can be out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal ball off the bat | Yes | Runs scored | The batter’s runs | Any way |
| Wide | No, bowled again | 1, plus every run taken | All wides, charged to the bowler | Stumped, hit wicket, run out, obstructing |
| No-ball | No, bowled again | 1, plus runs scored | 1 no-ball; bat runs to the batter; byes stay byes | Run out, hit the ball twice, obstructing |
| Bye | Yes | Runs taken | Byes, not the batter’s, not the bowler’s | Any way |
| Leg bye | Yes | Runs taken | Leg byes; needs a stroke or an attempt to avoid the ball | Any way |
| Free hit | Yes, if legal | As any ball | As any ball | Only as off a no-ball |
Sources: MCC Laws of Cricket, Law 17, Law 21, Law 22 and Law 23. MCC’s new edition of the Laws, in force from 1 October 2026, changes overthrows, boundary catches and bats; its announcement lists no change to wides, no-balls or byes.
Three rules a scoreboard has to get right
- A wide to the boundary is five wides. The penalty run and every run taken or reached off a wide are all wides (Law 22). None go to the batter, and a wide can never be a six.
- A no-ball keeps the bat runs with the batter. The penalty is one run, charged to the bowler; a four hit off a no-ball is 5 to the team and 4 to the batter. Byes run off a no-ball are still byes (Law 21).
- Byes and leg byes use up a ball. They are legal deliveries. The runs go to the team but not to the batter, and they are not charged to the bowler.
The free hit
In men’s and women’s international one-day and T20 cricket, and in most leagues that follow those playing conditions, every no-ball since 2015 is followed by a free hit. On it the batter can be out only in the ways possible off a no-ball: run out, hitting the ball twice or obstructing the field. If the free hit is itself a wide or a no-ball, the next delivery is a free hit too. Club cricket played strictly to the Laws has no free hit, so the counter has a switch.
One over, worked through
An over with a wide, a no-ball and a free hit takes eight deliveries to bowl six balls. The counter shows it in the over line as 1 Wd 4 Nb 6 0 1lb W:
| Delivery | What happened | Balls of the over | Runs added | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Single | 1 | 1 | 1/0 |
| 2 | Wide, no runs taken | 1 | 1 | 2/0 |
| 3 | Four | 2 | 4 | 6/0 |
| 4 | No-ball, no runs off the bat | 2 | 1 | 7/0 |
| 5 | Free hit, six | 3 | 6 | 13/0 |
| 6 | Dot ball | 4 | 0 | 13/0 |
| 7 | One leg bye | 5 | 1 | 14/0 |
| 8 | Bowled | 6: over | 0 | 14/1 |
The team scored 14 from the over. The bowler’s figures show 13, because the leg bye is not charged to the bowler, and the batter on strike for the six faced a ball that could not have got them out bowled.
Run rate from overs notation: why 18.3 overs is not 18.3, and the chase
A cricket score is written runs first, then wickets, then the overs: 142/6 in 18.3 overs means 142 runs for 6 wickets after 18 overs and 3 balls. Australia often writes wickets first, 6/142. The trap is the overs figure. The digit after the point counts balls, from 0 to 5, so 18.3 overs is 18½ overs, not 18.3, and any rate worked out by dividing by 18.3 is wrong.
| Score | Balls bowled | Real overs | Run rate | Dividing by the notation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 150 in 18.3 overs | 111 | 18.5 | 8.11 | 8.20 |
| 97 in 12.4 overs | 76 | 12.67 | 7.66 | 7.82 |
| 245 in 47.5 overs | 287 | 47.83 | 5.12 | 5.16 |
| 60 in 9.1 overs | 55 | 9.17 | 6.55 | 6.59 |
The counter never divides by the notation. It counts legal balls and works out every rate as runs × 6 ÷ balls, so the run rate on the board and in the scorecard is always the real one.
The chase: target, required rate and the result
The team batting second needs one run more than the first innings scored: 180 sets a target of 181. The required run rate is the runs still needed divided by the overs left, and the same trap applies. At 150/4 after 18.3 overs, chasing 181, the team needs 31 from 9 balls, which is 1.5 overs and a required rate of 20.67. Subtracting 18.3 from 20 gives “1.7 overs” and a rate of 18.24, which is meaningless. The counter shows runs needed, balls left and the required rate after every delivery.
| How the chase ends | Result | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Target reached | Won by the wickets in hand, with the balls remaining | 181/4 in 19.2: won by 6 wickets with 4 balls remaining |
| All out or overs used up, short | Won by the runs between the scores | 180/6 v 165/9: won by 15 runs |
| Scores level at the end | A tie | Competitions may then play a Super Over |
Net run rate
Tournaments separate teams level on points by net run rate: the runs a team scored per over across the competition, minus the runs it conceded per over. Two rules catch people out. Overs are converted from balls first, as above. And a side that is bowled out is charged its full quota of overs, so 95 all out in 17.2 overs of a T20 counts as 95 ÷ 20 = 4.75, not 95 in 17.33 overs (5.48). The counter keeps one match, not a tournament, but its scorecard gives both teams’ runs and balls, which is what a net run rate is built from.
Online counter vs a clicker, an app, paper and a spreadsheet
Every counting method trades something away. This is what each one actually costs you.
| Feature | This online counter | Handheld clicker | Counter phone app | Pen and paper | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $5–$15 | Free with ads, or paid | Cost of paper | Subscription |
| Anything to install | No | Buy the device | App store download | No | Yes, or a web login |
| Several counts at once | Unlimited | One per device | Usually limited | Yes, messy | Yes |
| Fix a miscount | Undo and redo | Start over | Sometimes | Cross it out | Edit the cell |
| Counts by more than one | Any step size | One at a time | Sometimes | Manual maths | Yes |
| Below zero | Yes | No | Rarely | Yes | Yes |
| Keeps the count if you close it | Saves automatically | Until you reset the dial | Yes | If you keep the paper | Yes |
| Works with no signal | Yes, after first load | Yes | Yes | Yes | Often not |
| Keyboard and shortcuts | Full | None | None | None | Partial |
| Sends your data anywhere | Never | Never | Often, for accounts and ads | Never | Yes, to the cloud |
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Frequently asked questions
Does a wide count as a ball in cricket?
No. A wide is not one of the six balls of the over, so it is bowled again (Law 17). It adds one penalty run to the team, and any runs the batters take or reach off it are scored as wides too, so a wide that runs to the boundary is five wides. The batter can still be stumped, run out or out hit wicket.
Does a no-ball count as a ball in the over?
No. A no-ball adds one penalty run and is bowled again, so the over still needs six legal balls. Runs hit off a no-ball go to the batter as well: a four off a no-ball is five to the team. In international limited-overs cricket and most leagues, the next delivery is then a free hit.
How many balls are there in an over?
Six legal balls. Wides and no-balls are not counted among them, so an over can take seven, eight or more deliveries to complete. Byes and leg byes do count, because they come off legal deliveries. If the umpire miscounts, the over as the umpire counted it stands. The Hundred uses 100-ball innings with sets of five or ten balls instead.
What is a free hit in cricket?
A free hit is the delivery after a no-ball in international one-day and T20 cricket and in most leagues. The batter can be out only in the ways possible off a no-ball: run out, hitting the ball twice or obstructing the field. If the free hit is a wide or no-ball, the next delivery is a free hit as well.
How is run rate calculated in cricket?
Run rate is runs divided by overs, with the overs worked out from balls. The figure after the point is balls, not tenths, so 18.3 overs is 18.5 overs. 150 in 18.3 overs is 150 divided by 18.5, a run rate of 8.11. Dividing by 18.3 gives 8.20, which is wrong. The required rate uses the balls left in the same way.
How is net run rate calculated?
Net run rate is a team’s runs scored per over across a tournament, minus the runs it conceded per over. Overs are converted from balls first, so 17.2 overs is 17.33. A side that is bowled out is charged its full quota of overs, so 95 all out in 17.2 overs of a T20 counts as 95 divided by 20, which is 4.75.
Can a batter be run out off a wide?
Yes. Off a wide the batter can be out stumped, run out, hit wicket or for obstructing the field, but not bowled, caught or lbw. The wide still does not count as a ball, so the over needs another delivery. Any runs completed before the run out are added as wides, together with the one-run penalty.
Do byes and leg byes count to the batter?
No. Byes and leg byes are extras: the runs go to the team’s total but not to the batter’s score, and they are not charged to the bowler either. Unlike wides and no-balls they come off legal deliveries, so they count as one of the six balls. A leg bye is allowed only if the batter tried to hit the ball or to avoid it.
What does 142/6 in 18.3 overs mean?
It means the batting side has scored 142 runs for the loss of 6 wickets, after 18 overs and 3 balls. The number after the point counts balls from 0 to 5, so the next legal ball makes it 18.4 and the one after completes the 19th over. Australia often writes the wickets first, 6/142.
Is this an official cricket scorer?
No. It is a score counter for club, junior and backyard matches and for following a game ball by ball. It keeps the team score, overs, extras, free hits and the chase in this browser only. It does not keep batters’ or bowlers’ figures, work out Duckworth-Lewis-Stern targets or decide whether a ball was wide.
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