Cricket Statistics - Batting Statistics

Batting Statistics

• Innings (I): The number of innings in which the batsman actually batted.
• Not outs (NO): The number of times the batsman was not out at the conclusion of an innings they batted in.1
• Runs (R): The number of runs scored.
• Highest score (HS/Best): The highest score ever made by the batsman.
• Batting average (Ave): The total number of runs divided by the total number of innings in which the batsman was out. Ave = Runs/ (also Avge or Avg.)
• Centuries (100): The number of innings in which the batsman scored one hundred runs or more.
• Half-centuries (50): The number of innings in which the batsman scored fifty to ninety-nine runs (centuries do not count as half-centuries as well).
• Balls faced (BF): The total number of balls received, including no balls but not including wides.
• Strike rate (SR): The number of runs scored per 100 balls faced. (SR = /BF)
• Run rate (RR): Is the number of runs a batsman (or the batting side) scores in an over of 6 balls.

1 Batsmen who are not required to bat in a particular innings (due to victory or declaration) are not considered "Not Out" in that innings. Only the player/s who have taken to the crease and remained there until the completion of an innings, are marked "Not Out" on the scorecard. For statistical purposes, batsmen who retire due to injury or illness are also deemed not out, while batsmen who retire for any other reason are deemed out, except in exceptional circumstances (in 1983 Gordon Greenidge, not out on 154, departed a Test match to be with his daughter, who was ill and subsequently died - he was subsequently deemed not out the only such decision in the history of Test cricket).