One-day Match & Draw Match

If the team batting last is all out, and in cooperation sides have scored the same number of runs, then the match is a tie; this result is reasonably rare in matches of two innings a side. In the traditional form of the game, if the time allotted for the match expires before either side can win, then the game is declared a draw.

If the match has only a single innings for each side, then a maximum number of deliveries for every innings is often imposed. Such a match is called a "limited overs" or "one-day" match, and the side scoring more runs wins in spite of of the number of wickets lost, so that a draw cannot occur. If this kind of match is for the moment interrupted by bad weather, then a complex mathematical formula, known as the Duckworth-Lewis method after its developers, is often used to recalculate a new aim score. A one-day match can also be declared a "no-result" if less than a previously agreed number of overs have been bowled by either team, in circumstances that make normal recommencement of play impossible; for example, wet weather.