As we near the climax of the thrilling IPL season one phrase is likely to take more precedent in the following few days more than the Kamaal Catches, Moments of Success or even the (dare I mention) Blimp. That phrase is the oddly confusing “Net Run Rate“.

The phrase has been used over and over again for such a long time now that it seems very surprising that majority of average cricket fans have absolutely no idea of how it is calculated! For most its seems like an impossible task (No sir, the impossible task is to figure out the Duckworth Lewis system)
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