The ultramodern and innovative template of the IPL scorecard has impressed one and all last year. The BCCI and IPL authorities continued the same theme and template even in the ongoing IPL tournament. The modern day sport involves a lot of technical changes by the broadcasters, especially in terms of graphics on the TV screens.

The score on the screen appears with the score right in the middle of the screen and the personal scores of individual players required run rate and other useful information on the either side of it is displayed. The information regarding the bowlers’ delivery speed, economy rate, the number of overs, required and current rate etc is been displayed regularly below the team’s score.

The template really impressed everyone which resembles as the theme used in the video games. Apart from the template, the graphics using the spider cam also impressed the viewers. However, in this edition of IPL, the broadcasters has added a unique ticker below the scores of the team, have you observed it?

The current edition of the Indian Premier League has seen these bars appearing on the TV screens just below where the main score of the match is displayed. The unique ticker left many people perplexed as to what exactly does it signify.

People recollected their learning phase of a game and would have thought the ticker signifies the timing of the shot or something similar to it. There is a school of thought which also professed that the meter signifies the pace on a delivery. But there wasn’t any exact reasoning as to what the ticker actually signified when it turned red and green.

The reason behind the green/red bars below the scores has been revealed:

On the basis of close observation and rightly verified by the IPL commentators, one can easily simplify as to what the meter actually implies. During the match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, the home team was chasing a mammoth score of 230. They reasonably took their time to settle in and thereby were under the required run rate.

Through the second innings, MI was far behind the required rate as the target was too high. To which Danny Morrison made a comment about the ideal place for the ticker to be in and that would be on the green side. The bar is divided into two halves with a yellow bar in the middle.

1. The meter is only displayed during the second innings of the match.

2. The midpoint signifies that the team is at par which the required run rate. There are a number of bars on either side of the midpoint.

3. The left side is represented by red bars and the right side by green. The number of bars keeps on fluctuating at different point of time in the game.

4. Let’s say the required run rate is 9 runs per over and the chasing team is going below the required run rate for e.g. 7 runs per over, then the meter displays red bars. Whereas, if the run rate is above par, let’s say 10 runs per over, the meter will display green bars.

5. Mainly, the big change in the ticker comes whenever there is a boundary hit or there are a number of dot balls.

Thus, the reason behind the ticker and what actually it resembles was revealed. From now, you can enjoy the matches keeping the use of the ticker in your mind.