Cricket scorecards can appear confusing at first glance, with multiple rows and columns indicating how well - or badly - both a team and individual player is faring in a match.

But once you know what you're looking at on a scorecard, it can become a lot less complex to work out what's going on.

Here is an explanation of some of the numbers and letters.

Going from left to right across the table:

• Innings - this refers to the time given to a team's turn to bat, in this case New Zealand

• Batter - these are listed in the order of appearance in the game that the batters make, called the 'batting order'

• c/lbw/st/not out - this details how the batter was dismissed, if at all. A 'c' indicates they were caught out, followed by the name of the fielder who caught them. An 'lbw' shows that they fell foul of a 'leg before wicket' where the ball was blocked from hitting the stumps by the batter's leg, which results in dismissal. If a 'st' is displayed, it means the batter was stumped by the wicketkeeper, whose name will be displayed next to the st. If the batter survived the innings then they are 'not out'. Otherwise, a blank in this column indicates they were bowled out, which is detailed in the next column along

• b - this is used when the batter has been dismissed as a result of the bowler, followed by the name of the bowler that dismissed them. The exception is when the batter is run out, where the fielder who ran them out will be displayed

• Runs - this displays the number of runs the batter has recorded

• Balls - how many times a batter has faced a delivery from a bowler

• Dots - how many times zero runs were scored from a legal delivery

• 4s - how many times the batter has hit a ball that has reached the pitch boundary to score four runs

• 6s - how many times the batter has hit a ball that has gone over the pitch boundary without hitting the ground first to score six runs

• Mins - number of minutes the batter has spent batting

• Strike-rate - worked out by the number of runs a batter has scored divided by the number of balls delivered, then multiplied by 100. For example, 18 runs from 36 balls = 50.0 strike rate

• Extras - denotes how many additional runs a team has scored as a result of byes, leg byes, wides and no balls

• Overs - an 'over' is a set number of six ball deliveries to the batter. So this denotes how many total overs a team has faced in their batting innings. In this example, 40.3 means 40 full overs and three extra deliveries

• All out - the number of runs scored either by the time every batter is dismissed or the final ball has been delivered

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