Dot ball
also: dot · scoreless delivery
A legal delivery on which no run is scored, shown as a dot in the scorebook.
A dot ball is a delivery that goes for nothing. In limited-overs cricket the count of dots is often a better guide to pressure than the economy rate, because a bowler who keeps batters from scoring forces mistakes later in the over.
The definition is not quite universal. Most sources count a legal ball with zero runs from the bat and zero extras; some also count a ball that went for a bye or leg bye as a dot for the bowler. Wides and no-balls are never dots, because they are not legal deliveries or they add runs.
Mixing sources. A dot-ball percentage from a site that counts byes as dots will not match one that does not, so check the definition before comparing.
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