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lelanthran • yesterday at 10:15 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> a scoring system that seems almost as deliberately obtuse

I don't even watch cricket, but even I find the scoring to be as simple as every other sport - 1 pt for each run a player does (batters two at a time).

When the score says "102 runs", that's exactly what it means.

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dspillett • yesterday at 11:13 PM

OK, so it isn't nearly as bad as I jokingly made out there (for a start I do understand the scoring for MC, though I don't have the inclination right now to explain it satisfactorily) but when are cricket scores ever a pair of simple run counts?

Some current scores picked arbitrarily by a quick Google search:

    Test 3 of 3, end of day three:
    NZ 438 & 120/3
    Eng 354

    Test 1 of 2, end of day three:
    Sri Lanka 308 & 51/1
    West Indies 626/9d

    Central Europe Cup (T20 4 of 6)
    Serbia 162/7 (20)
    Luxembourg 163/2 (13.1)
That is hardly “York 1, Grimsby Town nil”.
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