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  2. Strike rate - Wikipedia

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    Bowling strike rate is defined for a bowler as the average number of balls bowled per wicket taken. The lower the strike rate, the more effective a bowler is at taking wickets quickly. Although introduced as a statistic complementary to the batting strike rate during the ascension of one-day cricket in the 1980s, bowling strike rates are ...

  3. Bowling average - Wikipedia

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    In cricket, a player's bowling average is the number of runs they have conceded per wicket taken. The lower the bowling average is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly used alongside the economy rate and the strike rate to judge the overall performance of a bowler.

  4. Economy rate - Wikipedia

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    In cricket, a bowler's economy rate is the average number of runs they have conceded per over bowled. In most circumstances, the lower the economy rate is, the better the bowler is performing. It is one of a number of statistics used to compare bowlers, commonly used alongside bowling average and strike rate to judge the overall performance of ...

  5. Strike (bowling) - Wikipedia

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    A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a strike is scored The number of sanctioned perfect (300) games per league bowler has increased substantially since the 1990s. . Freeman and Hatfield posit that the increase in perfect games is due to factors such as the introduction of reactive resin coverstocks, asymmetric ball cores, synthetic lane surfaces, and precision lane oiling mach

  6. Cricket statistics - Wikipedia

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    Strike rate (SR): The average number of balls bowled per wicket taken. (SR = Balls/W) Economy rate (Econ): The average number of runs conceded per over. (Econ = Runs/Overs bowled). Best bowling (BB): The bowler's best bowling performance, defined as firstly the greatest number of wickets, secondly the fewest runs conceded for that number of ...

  7. Batting average (cricket) - Wikipedia

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    In cricket, a players' batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out, usually given to two decimal places.. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player ...

  8. Glossary of bowling - Wikipedia

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    Current Frame Scoring System: An alternate scoring system (most recently used in the World Bowling Tour finals) in which any strike is counted as 30 pins, while a spare is counted as 10 pins plus the first ball count in the current frame (example: 8 pins followed by a spare is scored as 18). Open frames count total pinfall in the frame only, as ...

  9. Perfect game (bowling) - Wikipedia

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    A perfect game is the highest score possible in a game of bowling, achieved by scoring a strike with every throw. [1] In bowling games that use 10 pins, such as ten-pin bowling, candlepin bowling, and duckpin bowling, the highest possible score is 300, achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a traditional single game: one strike in each of ...