Live Cricket Scores: Cricketers adore stats and records. While live cricket scores are the lifeblood of a cricket aficionado, they can be somewhat daunting for a newbie. Cricket and its scoring can be rather complicated. Every cricketer usually keeps a scorecard of his own; since games can take place over several days, an accurate scorecard helps keep tabs on all the action that has happened as part of each match.
Live cricket scores are usually provided along with the full scorecard. To understand how to read it, here are some pointers.
1. Obviously, key to understanding a match is to know the teams that are playing. Note the names of the teams being matched as well as the players in key positions: batsmen and bowlers.
2. Sometimes, you might find notations beside the name of a bowler. This typically indicates his playing style. For example, the abbreviation RFM means that a bowler is right- handed and a fast-medium bowler.
3. Other abbreviations you will need to be familiar with: ‘c’ means caught, ‘b’ means bowled.
4. The extras column indicates runs scored by the batting team if the bowler bowls too wide or a ‘no ball’. An extra can also be scored if the batsman runs when the ball has come off his body, instead of the bat.
5. A dot next to the name of a bowler means that he concedes no runs. A ‘w’ means he takes a wicket. A number in parenthesis besides a batsman’s name is the current total of runs scored, while that beside a bowler’s is the number of runs conceded.
6. When a batsman is taken out, the means by which it was accomplished it also recorded.
If you need to be updated on live cricket scores for matches played all over the world, then the internet is absolutely the best resource. Much faster than newspapers, and providing live cricket scores on demand (unlike cable), there are a number of internet sites posting live cricket scores in real-time. We browse through a few of them, and list them here for your reference:
Live Cricket Scores Resources
1. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/scores/live.html – the best part about this page is that it is updated in real- time; no need to refresh repeatedly. It also includes the scorecards as well as photo indices for each match.
2. http://www.cricketnirvana.com/ – aside from live cricket scores, this site has everything current about cricket, including videos, photos, current developments and special articles.
3. http://scores.sify.com/index.shtml – browse online for the full scorecard and live commentary.
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