Cricket has 3 formats, this one is called T20 and is played over two innings.

Both teams get 120 balls (pitches) in 20 overs of 6 balls each to score as much as they can with 10 outs. One player can bowl 4 overs at Max and can not bowl consecutive overs. Batter once out can not bat again in the game.

Scoring is done by hitting the ball and then running in between the two wickets on the ground. If you hit the ball and it goes aerial outside the boundary circle you get six runs, if the ball Crosses the boundary circle after hitting the ground you get 4 runs.

After the 120 balls are over or all 10 outs are done the inning ends for the team batting first and then other team comes to bat. The team batting second has to score as many runs as scored by the team that batted first, the match ends if they outscore the first team.

The top 7 players can bat properly, after that it is the bowlers who can not bat that well as 5 of them bowl 4 overs each to complete the 20. In some cases there are all rounder players who can bat and bowl but most players do only one thing.

Here Pakistan Scored 159 in their 20 overs losing 8 batters and india scored 160 in their 20 overs losing 6 batters. Winning on the last ball possible.

This match was great because Pakistan have Babar and Rizwan, two of the best batsmen in this format in recent times, both of them failed to score. Other batters took them to 159 which is not that High a score.

India's batting struggled a lot , but we have King Kohli, the absolute Best Batter in the last decade at this sport , who sadly had been going through a rough phase in the same time as the two Pakistani batters rose to the top. Not today evidently as he single handedly with very little support won us the game.

We needed 28 runs of the last 8 balls, which is something that is not happening 99 percent of the time. But Kohli hit 2 sixes , both of them were shots that looked so fucking good. Absolute shots of the tournament already , no matching them. Then with 16 needed of the last 6, we lost a wicket on the first ball. 1 run on the second, 2 runs on the third. Now needed 13 runs in 3 balls, one good ball and india would have lost. The ball was shit so Kohli hit it for another six, now 7 of 2 But wait, the Pakistani Bowler Mohammad Nawaz bowled a no ball, a no ball is an illegitimate delivery which gives the batting team one run extra and the ball is not counted but the runs are counted. The ball after no ball is a free hit, which counts but you cannot get out on that ball.

So now it's 6 off 3 plus it's a free hit. Next ball is a wide, a wide is a ball that is outside the reach of the batter, gives one run and does not count. Now 5 of 3, still a free hit. Next ball Kohli misses and it hits his wickets, normally that means you are out but it is a free hit so they run across 3 times and get 3 runs. Now 2 needed of 2, India certain to win celebrations up and running. Dinesh Karthik faces the next ball, and is out. Fucking hell

Now Pakistan is right back in the game, new batter Ashwin faces the final ball. 2 off 1, if he scores 2 we win of he's out Pakistan wins, if he scores 1 it is super over. Pakistani Bowler bowls a wide, horrible bowling at such a key stage made me and my friends literally jump up with excitement laughing at him. last ball Ashwin plays it as he does every single thing in his life, ethically and takes india home.

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The first number is the actual score (the runs). The second number indicates how many batters were out trying to get that score (you can lose a maximum of 10 batsmen after which your team can no longer bat). So for the purposes of determining the winner you can ignore the second number, but it reveals probably how exciting the game must have been, etc.

For example, if India had got 160/1 chasing Pakistan's 159/8, you know that Pakistan never really managed to get many Indians out (only one), so it was easy for India. Here it's more of a parity with India getting 8 Pakistani batters out and Pakistan getting 6.

But of course nothing can tell the whole story as just watching the game - you normally feel a 3-1 victory was easier than a 1-0 victory in football in general, but it could've been a late-stage comeback from 0-1 to 3-1, etc., which you wouldn't know unless you watched the game.

Edit: Also don't mind the downvotes. We don't learn without asking.

The number of runs the team scored and how many wickets ("outs" I think they're called in baseball) they conceded. It's actually somewhat anachronistic in this form of cricket since the amount of overs gone is usually more important than the amount of wickets you're down. It's just that these are the usual factors in longer and older forms of the game.