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Cricket League Bonus Points Calculator
Enter your league's bonus point schedule once, add the two innings, and see exactly how many points each side earned — match points, batting bonus, bowling bonus and penalties, itemised.
1. Your League's Points Schedule
Every league differs. Set these to match your competition's rules — the defaults follow a common club structure.
Batting bonus points
Bowling bonus points
2. The Match
Enter both innings as they finished.
What the Bonus Points Calculator Does
In most club leagues, winning is only part of how the table is decided. Batting and bowling bonus points — earned for passing runs and wickets milestones, whether you win or lose — often make up a large share of the points available across a season. Working out who earned what from a finished scorecard means applying your league’s specific ladder to both innings, in both directions, and it is fiddly enough that most clubs simply wait for the league to publish the table.
This calculator does it in one pass. Set your competition’s schedule once, enter both innings, and it itemises match points, batting bonus, bowling bonus, any transferred unclaimed points, and penalties for both sides.
How the Ladders Work
Batting points = 1 + floor((runs − first-point threshold) ÷ step), capped at the maximum
Bowling points use the same shape, counting wickets rather than runs. The key thing to get right — and the most common manual error — is that a side’s bowling bonus points come from the wickets it took, which is the number its opponent lost. The calculator handles that cross-over for you.
Set It to Your League, Not to a Default
There is no standard club bonus point system. Some leagues start batting points at 100 runs and award one per 25; others start at 90 and award one per 30. Some cap at four points, some at five, some at eight. Over-rate and ineligible-player penalties differ everywhere. The defaults here follow one common structure, but the whole point of the tool is that you replace them with your own competition’s rules — which are published in your league’s playing conditions, usually on its own site or its Play-Cricket page, and are often revised between seasons.
For the full explanation of how these systems are built and why leagues use them, read cricket league bonus points explained. Once you have per-match points for every fixture, feed the season totals into the points table calculator to build the standings, and use the net run rate calculator for the tiebreak.
Why the Scorebook Decides This, Not the Result
Bonus points are calculated from figures that live in the scorebook — the runs total at the close of an innings and the wickets column — so an inaccurate book costs real league points. Runs misfiled as byes still count toward the total, but a missed penalty five or a wicket credited to the wrong innings does not. Reading a scorecard properly and scoring a match accurately are the two skills this entire system rests on.
Track Bonus Points Live with CricPulse
The real value of a bonus point system is knowing where you stand during the match, not after it. CricPulse keeps the running totals a bonus point ladder depends on — score, wickets, run rate, overs remaining — live and visible, so a captain can be told “two runs from the next point, six overs left” while there is still time to do something about it. Free on iOS and Android.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do cricket league bonus points work? +
Most club leagues award a block of points for winning, then add bonus points earned during the match regardless of the result — typically one point for each batting milestone reached (for example every 30 runs above a threshold) and one for each wicket milestone taken (for example every two wickets). A losing side normally keeps every bonus point it earned, which is why teams with identical win-loss records can finish several places apart.
Do you keep bonus points if you lose the match? +
In almost all club league structures, yes. Batting and bowling bonus points are earned independently of the result, which is the whole reason the system exists — it keeps a lopsided match worth playing out to the last ball.
What are unclaimed batting bonus points? +
In some leagues, if a side is bowled out or its innings closes without earning the full set of batting bonus points, the points it did not claim transfer to the bowling side as a reward for taking all ten wickets. This is not universal, so check your competition rules before enabling the option in this calculator.
Are bonus points awarded in an abandoned match? +
Usually not. Most leagues award a fixed number of match points to each side for an abandonment and no bonus points, on the basis that bonus points require a completed match. A minority of leagues award whatever bonus points were earned before play stopped.
Why does this calculator ask me to set the points schedule myself? +
Because there is no single national standard. Match point values, run and wicket ladders, maximum bonus points and penalty rules all differ between competitions and often change season to season. Setting the schedule to match your own league's rules is the only way to get a total you can trust.
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