Welcome to our easy-to-use Batting Average Calculator! Whether you’re a passionate cricket fan, a cricketer by yourself, or just curious about player performance, this tool helps you quickly determine a batsman’s consistency on the crease. Simply enter the required information below and our tool will calculate the batting average for you.
Wondering what makes a good batting average? Read: What average is ideal in all formats here.
How to Use the Batting Average Calculator:
Our calculator requires just a few key pieces of information about the batsman’s performance:
- Innings Scores: Enter the batter’s score for each innings from Score #1 to Score #10. If the batter has played more than 10 innings, you can simply enter the total runs in the ‘Total Runs Scored’ box.
- Total Runs Scored: Enter the total runs the batter has accumulated in their career or a specific series. Note: If this field is filled, any values entered in the individual innings score boxes will be ignored.
- Total Dismissals: Enter the total number of times the batter has been dismissed.
- Batting Average: This value is calculated automatically by dividing the total runs scored by the number of times the batter has been dismissed.
Note: Dismissals must be 1 or more to calculate Batting Average.
What is Batting Average in Cricket?
As the name depicts, the batting average in cricket is the average number of runs scored per every dismissal. That is why “being Not-out” greatly influences one’s batting average.
How to calculate Batting Average?
A misconception is that batting averages are the median of runs scored by a batsman in terms of the number of innings he played. But that’s not true. The denominator, here, is the number of times the batsman has got dismissed in the format. The formula to calculate batting average of a batsman is,
Batting Average: Number of runs he accumulated / Number of dismissals
For example, take batsman A, who has scores of 75, 33*, 47, 47* & 50 in his first five ODI matches; his ODI batting average would be 84.
Calculation: A’s total score would be 252 Runs in 5 innings. But he was dismissed only three times in his career; thereby, the right method of calculating the average will be by dividing 252 by 3, which gives you the number 84.
