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WIN The result of a match is a ''win'' when one side scores more Runs than the opposing side and all the Innings of the match are completed. The side scoring more runs has won the game, and the side scoring fewer has lost. If the match ends without all the innings being completed, the result may be a draw or no result (see below). The Umpires also have the power to award a match to one side where the other side either concedes defeat or in the opinion of the umpires refuses to play. This power is very rarely used. Before this rule was introduced there had been cases in the international arena where one team has refused to play, or deliberately stopped playing for a while. One notable incident was when Sri Lanka temporarily stopped play against England when Muttiah Muralitharan was called for Throwing by umpire Darrell Hair . TIE ''See also: Tied Test , List Of Tied One-day Internationals '' The result of a match is a ''tie'' when the scores are equal at the conclusion of play, but only if the side batting last has completed its innings (i.e. all the batsmen are Out , or, in Limited-overs Cricket , the set number of Overs has been played or play is terminally stopped by weather or bad light). This is unusual, and in the history of Test Cricket has only happened twice:
In some forms of One-day Cricket , such as Twenty20 , a Bowl-out (similar to a Penalty Shoot-out in Football ) is used to decide a result that would otherwise be a tie. DRAW The result of a match is a ''draw'' if a match is concluded, as defined in Law 16, without being a win or a tie. This means that a draw occurs when a team does not complete its innings by the scheduled end of play. In matches where the number of overs is not limited, therefore, a team unable to win may be able to 'save the draw' by managing to not complete its final innings (i.e. by having batsmen left at the end of play who are 'not out'). The match is then drawn regardless of the total of runs accumulated by either side. NO RESULT A ''no result'' is effectively the same as a draw, but only occurs in limited-overs cricket. With a limited number of overs, a team cannot bat to the end of the match and secure a draw as above - if they have scored fewer runs they have lost the game. A no result, therefore, only occurs when weather conditions stop play before the second team have batted enough overs to have a recalculated target under the Duckworth-Lewis Method or other rain rules. In One-day International cricket, one team needs to have faced less than 20 overs (of the allotted 50 for a match) for a match to be a no result. ABANDONED A match can be ''abandoned'' if weather or other conditions prevent any play from occurring at all. If the Toss has not occurred, the match is recorded as having been 'abandoned without a ball being bowled'. Such a game is not included in official Statistical Records . Prior to July, 2004 , the same result occurred if the toss had been taken but the match was abandoned before a ball was bowled. Since 2004, the International Cricket Council has decreed that a match where the toss takes place but which is abandoned without a ball being bowled is either a draw or (for a limited-overs match) a no result. Such games are now included in statistical records, counting, for example, as a game played by the teams and nominated players. {Link without Title} STATEMENT OF RESULT If the side batting last wins the match without losing all its Wicket s, the result shall be stated as a win by the number of wickets still then to fall. E.g., in a single-innings match, if Team A bat first and make 200 runs, then Team B make 201 after losing four wickets (out of ten), Team B is said to have won by six wickets (regardless of how many batsmen Team A lost during their innings). In a two-innings match, if the number of runs scored in its first innings by the side batting last is greater than the total runs scored by the opposition in both its innings, the result is stated as a win by an innings and runs. E.g., if Team A bat first and make 200 runs in their first innings, Team B make 300 runs in their first innings, and Team A only make 95 runs in their second innings, Team B is said to have won by an innings and five runs. (If the side batting last has lost all its wickets but, as the result of an award of 5 penalty runs at the end of the match, has scored a total of runs in excess of the total scored by the opposing side, the result shall be stated as a win to that side by Penalty runs.) If the side fielding last wins the match, the result shall be stated as a win by runs. E.g., if Team A bat first and make 200 runs, but Team B make only 192, Team A is said to have won by eight runs. If the match is decided by one side conceding defeat or refusing to play, the result shall be stated as Match Conceded or Match Awarded, as the case may be. SEE ALSO |
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