About CricketCals

The story behind six simple calculators that do one thing really well — crunch cricket numbers, fast.

Why this exists

It started during a club match. A rain delay wiped out 12 overs, and suddenly everyone on the boundary had a different revised target. Someone pulled up a calculator app and started doing rough maths. Someone else googled it and landed on a page that looked like it hadn't been updated since 2009, peppered with pop-up ads.

That was the moment. Not some grand vision — just a straightforward realisation that there wasn't a single clean, fast, ad-free place to do the basic cricket calculations that come up week after week. Strike rate. Economy. Run rate. Partnership runs. The occasional DLS situation when the rain won't cooperate.

So we built one. Not a platform. Not an app you need to download. Just a page with tools that work the moment you open them, on your phone, on a laptop, doesn't matter. No sign-ups, no paywalls, no nonsense.

The six tools

Each one does exactly one calculation. No extra features nobody asked for. Just the number you need.

Batting Strike Rate Calculator

Takes runs and balls faced, gives you the strike rate per 100 balls. Includes a rating so you instantly know whether it's "Explosive" or just "Steady".

(Runs ÷ Balls) × 100

Bowler Economy Rate Calculator

Handles converting "8.3 overs" into proper decimals before doing the maths. Tells you if a spell was Excellent, Good, or Needs Work.

Runs Conceded ÷ Overs (decimal)

Run Rate Calculator

The batting side's average runs per over. Essential for quickly understanding the pace of an innings or figuring out what a chasing team needs.

Total Runs ÷ Overs (decimal)

Partnership Calculator

Adds two batters' runs plus extras, then shows you the total and who contributed what percentage.

Batter 1 + Batter 2 + Extras

DLS Target Calculator

Simplified version using a Standard Edition resource table. Good enough to understand how DLS works and get approximate targets, not a replacement for official software.

Educational use only

Overs to Balls Converter

Converts cricket overs notation into total balls bowled, decimal overs, and shows how many balls are left in the current over.

(Complete Overs × 6) + Partial Balls

Built for real situations

We didn't sit in a room theorising about what cricket tools people might want. These came from specific moments:

  • A club cricketer texting after their innings asking "what's my strike rate?" because the scoring app didn't show it.
  • A bowler trying to work out economy after a T20 spell, getting confused because they bowled 3.4 overs and the phone calculator doesn't understand cricket notation.
  • Someone watching an ODI and wanting to quickly know the current run rate to figure out if the batting team is ahead of par.
  • Hearing "that's a 95-run partnership" on commentary and wanting to verify it from the individual scores plus extras.
  • A Sunday league match where rain stopped play and nobody in the pavilion could agree on the DLS target.
  • A scorer needing to quickly convert 18.3 overs into total balls to cross-check against the ball-by-ball count.

An honest note about the DLS Target calculator

The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method is proprietary. The ICC licences the official resource tables and software, and those tables aren't publicly available in full. What we've done is use a widely-circulated simplified Standard Edition table and apply linear interpolation between known data points.

This means our DLS tool will get you roughly the right answer — usually within a run or two of the official calculation for common scenarios. But "roughly" isn't good enough when a match result hangs on it. If you're an umpire or match referee, use the proper ICC DLS software.

What we actually care about

Speed over features

You should have your answer before the bowler's run up. No loading spinners, no unnecessary steps.

Works on anything

Phone, tablet, laptop. No downloads, no app store. If you've got a browser, you've got the tools.

Your data stays yours

Every calculation happens in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere. No cookies, no analytics, no account.