Cricket Net Run Rate (NRR) Calculator

The rule, in the ICC's words

Clause 16.10.2 of the ICC Men's ODI Playing Conditions, effective from October 2026, says a team's net run rate is "calculated by deducting from the average runs per over scored by that team throughout the competition, the average runs per over scored against that team throughout the competition" (ODI conditions, PDF). The T20I conditions of the same date carry the same wording (T20I conditions, PDF). It is one division over the whole competition: total runs over total overs, for and against. It is not the average of each match's run rate, and not their sum.

No clause we found says how to turn 19.3 overs into a number. The ICC's tables behave as if it were 19 overs and 3 of 6 balls, 19½ overs. Counting that way, this calculator reproduces all 13 net run rates the ICC published for three groups of the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup (Super 8 Groups 1 and 2, and Group D) to the third decimal (ICC standings). Reading 19.3 as a decimal matches 1 of the 13, and so does averaging each match's NRR. Adding the match NRRs together matches none.

All out means every allotted over

The same clause: "In the event of a team being all out in less than its full quota of overs, the calculation of its net run rate shall be based on the full quota of overs to which it would have been entitled". Sri Lanka were 95 all out in 16.4 overs against England in the 2026 Super 8s. Charged the full 20, Sri Lanka's group NRR is −1.950, the ICC's figure; charged only the 16.4 they batted, it would be −1.549. The quota is what the side was entitled to in that match. In a match shortened before it started it is the shortened allotment. In the Singapore Cricket Association's league, Division 1 plays 40-over matches and Divisions 2 to 5 play 30-over matches (SCA League Rules 2025, rule 2.1). Those rules name net run rate as a tie-break but do not say how to calculate it, so whether a league scorer charges 40 or 30 overs is an assumption here, not an SCA rule.

Rain: whose score is credited

Clause 16.10.2 has two sentences for matches decided by Duckworth/Lewis/Stern. If DLS was applied "at an earlier point in the match", Team 1 "will be credited with one (1) run less than the final Target Score for Team 2 off the total number of overs allocated to Team 2 to reach the target." If the match is abandoned but a DLS result stands, "Team 1 will be credited with Team 2's Par Score on abandonment off the same number of overs faced by Team 2."

A hypothetical ODI, not a real match: Team 1 makes 280 in 50 overs. Rain revises Team 2's target to 220 in 40 overs, and Team 2 gets there, 221 for 5 in 38.1. Team 1 is credited with 219 off 40 overs, so Team 2's NRR from the match is +0.315. Crediting Team 1 with the target itself, 220 off 40, would give +0.290, and with its actual 280 off 50, +0.190. In a second hypothetical, play is abandoned with Team 2 on 150 for 2 after 30 overs and its par score 130: Team 1 is credited with 130 off 30 overs, and Team 2's NRR from the match is +0.667.

What the tables leave out

"Only those matches where results are achieved will count for the purpose of net run rate calculations" (16.10.2), so a no-result or abandoned match without a result adds nothing. The 2026 Men's T20 World Cup conditions add, at 16.10.7, "The Super Over is not included in the net run rate calculation" (T20 World Cup 2026 conditions, PDF). In a tied match, enter the two 20-over innings and nothing else. The same conditions charge a team that forfeits with the full 20 overs of its innings, while the runs and overs of a forfeited match are not counted for the team awarded it; this calculator has no forfeit option, so a forfeit has to be worked out by hand. Those conditions also say no net run rate from the first round is carried into the Super Eights.

Where NRR sits in the tie-break

NRR is not the first thing that separates teams level on points. The ICC's ODI and T20I conditions (16.10.1, for an ICC-approved competition of more than two teams in a league structure) rank them by the most wins, then by wins against the other teams still level, and only then by net run rate. The 2026 Men's T20 World Cup used wins, then net run rate, then head-to-head, then the ICC team rankings (16.10.4). The SCA league rules, rule 10, go points, wins, net run rate, head-to-head, bonus points, and finally the drawing of lots. At the 2026 World Cup, New Zealand and Pakistan finished Super 8 Group 2 on 3 points and one win each, so NRR decided it: New Zealand +1.390, Pakistan −0.123, and New Zealand went through.

What one ball is worth

India chased 199 in 19.2 overs against West Indies in Super 8 Group 1 and finished the group on +0.106. Had they got there one ball sooner, in 19.1, the figure would be +0.133; one over sooner, in 18.2, +0.270. Four extra runs scored across a 40-over total add 4 ÷ 40 = 0.100. Those are after-the-fact arithmetic on the published scores, not targets anyone set at the time.