Inning facts for kids

An inning is a special part of a game in sports like cricket and baseball. It's when one team tries to score points, and the other team tries to stop them. In baseball, this scoring turn is often called a "half-inning." A team's turn to score usually ends when a certain number of their players are "out" (meaning they made a mistake and have to leave the field).

Cricket Basics

In cricket, a team's turn to bat, called an innings, usually ends when 10 out of their 11 players are "out." Once a player is out, they can't bat again in that innings. Sometimes, an innings can also end because of a time limit, or after a certain number of balls have been thrown to the batters. For example, in T20 cricket, each team gets to face 120 legal throws. The word "innings" can also mean how well a single batter plays, or how many runs they score during their turn.

What is a Super Over?

A Super Over is a special tiebreaker used in cricket when a game ends with both teams having the same score. In a Super Over, both teams get an extra mini-innings where they face a maximum of 6 legal throws. If the teams are still tied after one Super Over, they keep playing more Super Overs until one team scores more runs than the other. A famous example of a Super Over happened during the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final.

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  A baseball scoreboard