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Novice question: calculating overs remaining

bing

Cricket Spectator
Hi all,

Please forgive my ignorance.

How are then number of overs remaining calculated for each day in an international test match? Can someone help a confused American?

Thanks.

Ralph
 

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
On some scoreboards they say "overs remaining". If not, the answer is as follows.

1. There are meant to be 90 overs in each day in a Test match. So it should be easy to calculate on the first day of a match, or if you know how many overs had been played at the start of the day.

2. 2 overs are lost if there is a change of innings. So, if team A is all out in 58 overs on day 1, team B will bat for 30 overs that day.

3. However the 90 over allocation may be increased by catching up on time lost on previous days, with the result that there are, say, 94 overs scheduled for a particular day. And even given good weather there is no guarantee that teams will actually manage to get through their full 90 overs in the allotted time. Which is utterly pathetic.
 

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