What is Net run rate?
'''Net run rate (NRR)''' is a number used in [[cricket]] to decide which of two teams is better, if both teams are equal on points gotten from winning games during a competition (i.e. they may have won and lost an equal number of games during a [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]]). It is calculated using the difference between the number of runs scored by a team and its opponents, while dividing each of these by the number of [[Delivery (cricket)|legal deliveries]] (in batches of 6 i.e. the number of [[Over (cricket)|overs]]) that team and its opponents have each batted throughout all of the games involving that team in the competition.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mackay|first=Alexander|title=Net Run Rate|url=http://www.cricketswitzerland.ch/seniors/nrr/|access-date=2020-12-26|website=Cricket Switzerland|language=en-US}}</ref> This calculation does not look at how many times each team's batsmen have gotten [[Out (cricket)|out]], so it gives teams that score many runs very quickly an advantage even if they have more batsmen get out than their opponents. As an example, if a team wins a game 300 runs to 200, with it having batted 200 legal deliveries (33.2 [[Over (cricket)|over]]<nowiki/>s, meaning 33 overs and 2 deliveries, or 33 overs plus a third of an over) and its opponents having batted 185 legal deliveries (30.5 overs), then the team's Net Run Rate during that game is (6*((300/200)-(200/185)))= 2.51. == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Cricket]] [[Category:Sports words]]