apps are being used. Most of the amateur tournaments use mobile apps on their smartphones because they are more convenient and free, which makes it perfect fit for amateur cricketers since they cannot afford to spend money on standalone and custom software. Mobile apps allow amateur cricketers to keep their scores online, and also provide them with personalised statistics and graphs on their own mobile devices. The ECB make free software available for cricket scoring both on PC and mobile devices from the PlayCricket website. Detailed scoring Cricket scorers keep track of many other facts of the game. As a minimum a scorer would note: For each ball, who bowled it and how many runs were scored from it, whether by the batsman with his bat ('off the bat') or byes. For each batsman, every scoring run made. For each dismissal, the kind of dismissal (e.g. LBW or run out), the bowler (in the case of a bowling, LBW, catch, wicket hit, or stumping), any other player involved (in the case of a catch, run out, or stumping), as well as the total the batting team reached at that point in the game ('the fall of wicket'). Example notations as seen on cricket scorecards: c fielder b bowler – Caught c & b bowler – Caught & bowled (the bowler was also the catching fielder) b bowler – Bowled lbw b bowler – Leg before wicket st wicket-keeper b bowler – Stumped hit wicket b bowler - Hit wicket run out (fielder) - Run out For each bowler (his 'figures'), the number of overs bowled, the number of wickets taken, the number of runs conceded, and the number of maiden overs bowled. Traditionally, the score book might record each ball bowled by a bowler and each ball faced by a batsman, but not necessarily which batsman faced which ball. Linear scoring systems were developed from the late 19th century and early 20th century by John Atkinson Pendlington, Bill Ferguson and Bill Frindall, to keep track of the balls faced by a batsman off each bowler. Another early method of recording the number of balls faced and runs scored by each batsman off each bowler was devised by Australian scorer J.G. Jackschon in the 1890s, using a separate memorandum alongside the main scoresheet. Frequently more detail is recorded, for instance, for a batsman, the number of balls faced and the number