who can explain run rates for the world cup..n how can ENG be near 0 after 3 wins?

Question

just explain for one match. ie engv ire

also how can a side have a negative run rate?

does RR reward prorportionally the margin of victory....or is total number of runs more important...or is it a bit of both

Answer 1

Step 1:
Calculating net run rate for a single match. Let me use an actual case to explain - India.

India scored 191 against Bangladesh, batting first. (In such cases the team's full quota of overs will be considered and not the actual number of overs and balls they played.)

Bangladesh scored 192 in 48.3 overs

India's Net Run Rate for that match = (191 ÷ 50) - (192 ÷ 48.5) = ( - 0.14 )

Note ( see red above) : 48.3 overs in mathematical terms becomes 48.5 because 3 balls is actually half an over

Step 2:
Calculating net run rate for the entire Round 1 of the World Cup

= (Average runs scored per over in all the 3 matches by India) - (Average runs scored per over by Bangladesh, Bermuda and Sri Lanka against India)

Note: For teams getting bowled out, the entire quota of overs would be counted


Step 1 is for a single match

It's doing the subtraction of the other countries averages at the end that can give you a negative.

If you work through the first example it will become apparent that both scores are important.

Answer 2

A team's run rate (RR) is their total number of runs divided by overs faced. As an over is made up of six balls, each ball counts for 1/6 of an over for the purposes of calculating the net run rate, despite being normally written in cricket's notation as .1 of an over.

So if a team scores 250 runs off 50 overs then their runrate is 4 . If they got that same score off 47.5 overs, their RR would be 5.226

The concept of net run rate involves taking the opponents' final run rate away from the team's run rate. The only complication is that if a team is bowled out, it is not the balls faced which their score is divided by; instead the full fifty over quota is used.

Usually, runs and overs bowled are summed together throughout a season to compare teams in a league table.
A team's Net Run Rate is calculated as follows:

Total runs scored divided by total overs faced minus
Total runs conceded divided by total overs bowled.

For more details, please check the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_run_rate

Answer 3

Run rate is pritty much how many runs the team is averaging per over.
I don't think its possible to have a negative run rate but i'm not 100% sure.