(i.e., instead of saying a required run rate of 6 from 3 remaining overs, it is more common to say that they required 18 runs from 18 balls remaining). Before the advent of the Duckworth-Lewis method, run rate was one of a number of methods used to determine the winner of a game which had been curtailed due to rain or bad light (in the Average Run Rate method). It can also be used to separate teams in a league table with the same win–loss record, though that is usually done by the net run rate method. See also Required run rate Net run rate Economy rate (cricket) References Cricket terminology Batting (cricket) Cricket records and statistics Rates