Cricket - question about scoring

[hasbeen]

Not much of a cricket fan really but this has always intrigued me.
Why does Australia put the wickets before the runs when putting up a score eg. 9/127 instead of 127/9 like all the other cricketing nations?

 

[Jazzie]

Not much of a cricket fan really but this has always intrigued me.
Why does Australia put the wickets before the runs when putting up a score eg. 9/127 instead of 127/9 like all the other cricketing nations?

Being a member of the cricket fraternity for many years, and a previous scorer and coach, I have asked this of others many times. Never really got a decent answer except maybe to be different. lol. If I do find out will post, however there are some great minds who post on the forum and you may get a better answer to your question. I'm intrigued too.

 

[dibo]

is it 'all the other nations'? i got the impression that NZ did it our way. i don't know about the saffers, but as you're getting the british feed for the present tests that doesn't help much. as for the subcontinent, i've no idea.

as for why it started - to a certain extent the first point of interest is how many wickets are down. are they none-fa? if so, it almost doesn't matter what the runs are, they've got nine in the shed still. if they're nine-fa, they'd want to have some runs on the board.

from a bowler's point of view it's all about the wickets - a nice spell of tidy bowling for few runs is less easily recalled than the day you got five for a million.

 

[hasbeen]

Only Australia ... no other Test playing nation does it.

 

[scottmac]

Not much of a cricket fan really but this has always intrigued me.
Why does Australia put the wickets before the runs when putting up a score eg. 9/127 instead of 127/9 like all the other cricketing nations?

Its as simple as this.


In Australia, we have multitudes of world class batsman whereas all other nations do not! I mean we've got county quality cricketers running around in 3rd grade on the coast!

More often than not, the runs column is large and you only worry about how many they've scored once its your turn to bat.

;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[scottmac]

Not much of a cricket fan really but this has always intrigued me.
Why does Australia put the wickets before the runs when putting up a score eg. 9/127 instead of 127/9 like all the other cricketing nations?

Its as simple as this.


In Australia, we have multitudes of world class batsman whereas all other nations do not! I mean we've got county quality cricketers running around in 3rd grade on the coast!

More often than not, the runs column is large and you only worry about how many they've scored once its your turn to bat.

;D ;D ;D ;D

Although looking at the scorecard today, i would be seriously mistaken :ashamed:

 

[Arabmariner]

It's a bit like the Americans putting the away team Ist......

i.e. instead of CCM v Sydney it would be Sydney @ CCM

Anyway it's only Cricket so who gives a toss!........................

 

[Sym]

Who cares, we are rad at it and that is what matters.

 

[MagpieMariner]

I once heard of a Pom having a severe heart attack when he asked an Aussie about the score in the Test and was told "none for 9". 

 

[MagpieMariner]

As for why we do it the way we do, I've no idea. I suspect it may have come about because we wanted to be different. After all, we've only bowled 6-ball overs since WSC came in. Before that we had 8.