Down the Ground - The Segment Breakdown System

Your engine gives you a segment. This turns it into a scorecard.

Down the Ground resolves cricket roughly five overs at a time - 22 for 2, 41 for 0, that sort of thing. Good for a fast match, less good when you want to know who actually made the runs. This companion takes any segment result and distributes it down into individual batting scores, fall of wickets, dismissals and bowling figures. It always adds back up to the segment total.

The idea behind it is simple. A segment that loses W wickets contains W plus one mini-partnerships. Work out where each wicket fell, that splits the runs into chunks, then share each chunk between the two batsmen at the crease. Seven small tables do the rest.

What you get

The Segment Breakdown System - a printable PDF with all seven tables, the running order, an optional extras rule and a fully worked example

Blank scorecard - batting, fall of wickets and bowling figures, on the last page

Match book app - an offline web page that rolls the tables for you and keeps the whole scorecard. Set the match up once - both XIs, roles, who bats first - then enter each segment as the engine produces it and the app runs every roll, moves the batting order along, tracks fall of wickets and bowling figures, and writes the card. Copy the finished scorecard as text, save a match to a file and pick it up later. Covers T20, The Hundred, 30 to 60 overs, and four-innings first class with declarations, the follow-on and the fourth-innings chase

Works with any Down the Ground format - T20, The Hundred, one day, first-class. It sits on top of whatever you are already playing.

One thing to be clear about: this produces individual figures for the match in front of you. It is not a career stats system and the players are not rated. Nobody bats better than anyone else here - the tables share out runs the engine has already generated.

Pay what you want, including nothing. If you want the games it plugs into, Down the Ground, Free Hit and The Long Game are all in the store.

Roll the tables. Fill the card. Find out who got the hundred.