Editing Running up the score (section)

===Cricket===
The nature of [[cricket]] with teams alternating either one or two [[innings]] and how games are limited by time or overs means that running up the score does not exist as a meaningful term within the sport. Teams seek to score the largest amount of runs within their specified time frame or before their wickets are taken by the opposition, as long as the time taken to acquire the runs does not impact on the tactical considerations for winning the game. In [[limited overs cricket]] rulesets such as [[One Day International]] and [[Twenty20]] each team only get one chance to bat and have a set amount of overs to do so, requiring the team batting first to post the largest run total they can produce. Teams may elect to play more aggressively due to conditions or with the aim of increasing their [[net run rate]] in the event a tiebreaker is required for further qualification within a tournament but these attempts may instead cause a team to give away their wickets making overly aggressive shots.

In [[Test cricket]] and [[first-class cricket]] with long hours of play per day and multiple days per match teams can accumulate runs for as long as they can avoid losing their wickets. An excessive accumulation of runs by one team will increase the likelihood of a [[Draw (cricket)|draw]] where the full allocation of innings is not completed. Tactical considerations see teams [[Declaration (cricket)|declare their innings]] closed before all their batsmen are dismissed. The first innings in particular is known for excessive scoring and the "[[follow-on]]" rule encourages teams to stay on the pitch. If the team who batted first have a high enough lead when their opposition are dismissed in the second innings, the team who are still in the lead can elect to "enforce the follow on", requiring their opponents to bat again. If the team batting again fail to reach the total, they lose "by an innings" and the runs remaining and the team who enforced the follow on are not required to bat again.

Individual players may feel they have scored enough runs already during their innings and elect to [[Retired (cricket)|retire out]]. This action is considered unsporting when there are no extenuating circumstances such as an illness or injury. It is subsequently extremely rare. It has only occurred twice in Test Cricket, in [[2001–02 Asian Test Championship#2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Bangladesh|the same game]] where [[Marvan Atapattu]] (scoring 201) and [[Mahela Jayawardene]] (150) retired against a highly inferior Bangladesh team.