Bowling Average Calculator

This bowling average calculator works out a cricketer's bowling average, the classic measure of how many runs a bowler pays for each wicket they take. Enter the runs conceded, the wickets taken and the overs bowled, and the calculator divides runs by wickets to give the average, then adds two companion figures that round out a bowler's record: the economy rate, which is runs conceded per over, and the bowling strike rate, which is balls bowled per wicket. Together the three tell you different things. The average captures the cost of each wicket, the economy rate shows how tight a bowler is, and the strike rate shows how often they strike, which is why a fast bowler and a defensive spinner can have similar averages for very different reasons. In cricket a lower bowling average is better, unlike a batting average where higher is better, so the same word points in opposite directions depending on which side of the game you are measuring. Players, coaches, scorers and fans use it to track a spell, a season or a career across school, club, grade and representative cricket, and it works the same for Test, one-day and Twenty20 records. Enter overs as a decimal if you bowled part of an over, take care to keep wickets above zero so the average is defined, and read the average as runs per wicket.

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Conceding 480 runs for 20 wickets gives a bowling average of 24.00 runs per wicket, an economy rate of 3.00 runs per over and a strike rate of 48.0 balls per wicket.

Bowling average is runs conceded divided by wickets; economy is runs per over; strike rate is balls (overs times 6) per wicket. Enter part overs as a decimal. A lower average is better.