Printable Cricket score sheet (free PDF)
Runs, wickets, overs, the odd wide — a cricket innings adds up fast, and shouting the total across the boundary rope only works for so long. With ScoreZen you tap the score in on any phone as each over unfolds, then share the live board by QR code or link. The clubhouse, family and mates all follow ball by ball, free, no account and no ads.
Prefer paper? The sheet below follows how Cricket is really scored. Print it and fill it in with a pen — or start a live scoreboard and let everyone follow on their phones.
Your teams on the sheet
Cricket score sheet
| Team A | Team B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Venue | ||
| Referee | Scorekeeper | ||
| Competition | Match no. | ||
| Category |
| Innings | Team A | Team B |
|---|---|---|
| Innings 1 | ||
| Innings 2 | ||
| Final score |
| Captain A | Captain B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Referee | Scorekeeper |
Point values : +1 · +2 · +3 · +4 · +5 · +6
Sanctions & stoppages : Wickets
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How to fill in this sheet
Fill the top block first — it is the part that makes a sheet usable a week later. Team A and Team B on the first line, then Date and Venue, then Referee and Scorekeeper: cricket runs with at least two on-field umpires, so use that box for both names. The Competition, Match no. and Category lines look like paperwork until a result has to be attached to a fixture and nobody can say which game this was. Settle the format in the same breath — twenty overs a side and fifty overs a side fill this identical grid.
The grid itself is deliberately short: two rows, Innings 1 and Innings 2, a box for each team, and a Final score line underneath. That is a limited-overs match exactly — each side bats once. Put a team's total in its own box on the innings it batted, written the way cricket writes it: runs first, wickets after the slash, so 250/4 means two hundred and fifty runs for four wickets down. A longer format where both sides bat twice does not stretch this grid; print the sheet twice and number the innings on each.
Keep the ball-by-ball detail in your own book: this page carries the result, not every delivery. What it does need is a total you bring up to date at the end of each over, so the box is never a guess when the umpires call drinks. Give extras a corner of the margin as well — a wide or a no-ball hands a run to the batting side without the bat touching anything, and quietly losing two or three of them is the classic way a club scorer finishes the day out of step with the official book.
What the scorekeeper watches
The point-values strip printed under the grid tells you what one entry can be worth here: +1 up to +6. One run for a completed exchange between the wickets, four for a ball that reaches the boundary along the ground, six for one that clears it without bouncing, and five when the Laws award penalty runs to the batting side. Twos and threes are the ordinary scampers. Nothing a scorer writes in a single stroke is worth more than six, which is a useful sanity check when the pen gets ahead of the play.
The sanctions strip says one word: Wickets. It is the count that can end an innings on its own — ten batters out and the side is finished, whatever overs remain, so the runs figure means nothing without it beside it. There is no clock anywhere on a cricket sheet, and none in the app either: an innings closes on overs, on a declaration, or on that tenth wicket. Write the time of drinks breaks and weather interruptions in the margin instead; those are the details clubs argue about when a match is decided on a shortened total.
Common questions
Do I write the score as 250/4 or 4/250?
Our rules page writes it runs first, wickets after: 250/4 is two hundred and fifty runs for four wickets down. The box on the sheet is free, so the only thing that matters is that both books agree. Say your convention out loud to the other scorer before the first over, and keep it for the whole match.
There are only two innings rows — what about a match where each side bats twice?
Two rows fit a limited-overs game, where each side bats once. A format with two innings per side needs two printed sheets: number them and staple them together. Remember that in the longest format a match that runs out of time is a draw whatever the totals, so the Final score line is not always the last word.
Is this an official score sheet I can send to my board?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. This is a clean generic template, made for practice, friendlies and club tournaments where nobody supplies a book. Governing bodies and national boards publish their own scoring formats for graded competition, and those are the ones to use when the result feeds a league table or a player's record.
Paper is patient; the family who could not travel is not. Run the same match on a phone and the runs and wickets add themselves up over by over, while a QR code lets anyone follow from home — free, no app, no account to watch. It keeps counting when the ground has no signal, and at the close you can print a full recap of how the innings unfolded.
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