🏏 Net Run Rate Calculator
Enter each match’s runs and overs to get a team’s net run rate exactly as a points table works it out — with overs read correctly as balls and the all-out rule applied — plus the rate needed to finish a chase.
🏏 Work Out Net Run Rate
Required run rate in a chase
60 needed off 36 balls: 10.00 an over.
How net run rate is worked out
Net run rate is the rate a team scores at minus the rate it concedes at, across every match in the competition. The two rates are totals divided by totals: all the runs a team has scored over all the overs it has faced, less all the runs it has conceded over all the overs it has bowled.
Two details catch almost every hand calculation. Overs are written in base six, so 18.2 overs is 18 overs and 2 balls — 18.333 overs, not 18.2. And when a team is bowled out, it is charged its full quota of overs, not the overs it actually lasted, so collapsing early is punished in the table as well as on the scoreboard. The calculator applies both rules. Matches decided by Duckworth-Lewis-Stern, or abandoned without a result, follow further rules in the competition’s playing conditions, which it does not model.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Why is 10.4 overs not 10.4 in the calculation?
Because the figure after the point is balls, and an over has six. 10.4 overs means ten overs and four balls, which is 10.667 overs. Dividing runs by 10.4 instead overstates the run rate slightly — enough to reorder teams that are close in a table.
What happens to net run rate when a team is bowled out?
Under the ICC playing conditions, a team that is bowled out is treated as having faced its full quota of overs — 20 in a T20, 50 in an ODI. So being bowled out for 120 in 15 overs counts as 120 off 20 overs, a run rate of 6.0 rather than 8.0. The same rule applies in reverse to the team that bowled them out.
Is net run rate the average of each match's run rate?
No. Runs and overs are added up across all matches first, and only then divided. A big win in a short chase and a narrow loss over full overs do not count equally, and averaging per-match figures gives a different — wrong — answer.
What does a positive or negative net run rate mean?
Positive means the team has scored faster than its opponents across the competition; negative means slower. It is used to separate teams level on points, which is why a team chasing a target late in a group stage will often try to win quickly rather than just win.