Cricket

Abstract

By way of relaxation, here is a program which uses the same ideas as were built into the last chapter, but applied to a lighter subject. Cricket enthusiasts may not consider the storage and handling of their scores and bowling figures to be less important than the information dealt with in STATISTICS, but I don’t think they will quarrel with the description ‘lighter’. Cricketers do seem to be pre-occupied, obsessed even, with these figures so there may be a big demand for a program like this one, which takes all the hard work out of the job and reduces the likelihood of errors creeping into the statistics. This is a big program and so the space left over for data would be insufficient if all the numbers were to be stored in number variables, and so the use of character arrays improves the efficiency of the program.