Partnership Calculator

Cricket is an individual battle inside a team game, and nowhere is that clearer than in a partnership. Two batters share the strike, rotate it, protect each other and build a total together. This calculator combines both batters' runs and balls with the extras conceded during the stand to give you the partnership total, the balls it lasted, its run rate and how much each batter contributed.

How to use the partnership calculator

1. Enter Batter A's runs and balls faced during the partnership (not their full innings if they were batting before the stand began).
2. Enter the same for Batter B.
3. Add the extras conceded while the pair were together: byes, leg-byes, wides, no-balls and penalty runs.
4. The results panel shows the partnership total, balls, run rate and each share as a percentage.

How a partnership is calculated

Partnership runs = Batter A runs + Batter B runs + Extras

Partnership balls = Batter A balls faced + Batter B balls faced

Run rate = Partnership runs ÷ (Partnership balls ÷ 6)

Every run the team adds while the pair are at the crease belongs to the partnership, including extras. Balls faced already include no-balls (which batters face) and exclude wides (which they do not), so adding the two batters' balls gives the length of the stand in balls faced.

Worked example

Batter A makes 64 from 48 balls and Batter B 41 from 39 balls. Seven extras are conceded.

• Partnership = 64 + 41 + 7 = 112 runs
• Balls = 48 + 39 = 87
• Run rate = 112 ÷ 14.5 = 7.72 per over
• Shares: A 57.1%, B 36.6%, extras 6.3%

The shares tell a story the total does not. Here Batter A did most of the scoring while Batter B played the supporting role, a common pattern when one batter is set and the other has just come in.

Why partnership numbers matter

• Building pressure on the bowling side. Long partnerships tire bowlers, push captains into defensive fields and often lead to loose deliveries.
• Rescue acts. After early wickets, a slow but long partnership can be worth more than its run rate suggests because it stops a collapse.
• Strike rotation. Comparing each batter's balls faced shows whether they shared the strike. A 60–40 split in balls is normal; 80–20 can mean one batter is "farming" the strike to protect a tail-ender.
• Death-overs acceleration. A partnership run rate of 10 or more in the last five overs of a T20 is what separates 170 from 200.

Rules that affect partnerships

The MCC Laws of Cricket govern how runs are scored, but a few practical points cause confusion:

• A partnership ends when either batter is dismissed or retires. If a batter retires hurt and later returns, scorers start a new partnership on their return.
• Penalty runs awarded to the batting side count towards the partnership because they are added to the team total.
• Runs scored before the partnership started, such as an opener's first 20 runs before the first wicket fell, do not count towards the second-wicket stand.

Common mistakes

1. Using full innings scores. Only runs scored during the stand belong in the partnership.
2. Forgetting extras. Leaving them out understates the partnership and makes the batters' shares add up to 100% when they should not.
3. Adding wides to balls. Wides are not faced by either batter, so they lengthen the stand in time but not in balls faced.

Related tools

Use the run rate calculator to compare a stand with the team's overall scoring rate, and the projected score calculator to see what total a partnership is setting up. For partnerships happening right now, follow the scorecards on CricketSky's live scores page.