Innings and Overs in ODIs, Tests and T-20s

Difference between innings and overs

Cricket is a very interesting game played between two teams and each team has eleven players to play. There are three different aspects of cricket- bowling, batting, and fielding. At a time, one team does the bowling and fielding whereas another team does the batting and scores the runs. Once the batting of one team is over, another team starts batting and chases the run score of opposite team and has to do one more run than the opposition to win the match. The phase of one team’s batting and another team’s bowling is known as an inning.

According to the format of cricket, overs are defined for an inning. For a test cricket, there is no limitation of overs for any team and they can bat till all their players are out. In One-Day International, there can be maximum of fifty (50) over per inning and in Twnety-20, there can be maximum of twenty (20) overs per inning for a batting team to play. Each bowling over contains a delivery of six official balls to batsman. For delivering a ball wide of a batting player is known as ‘wide’ and an overstepping from the bowling crease while bowling is known as ‘no-ball’.