As a cricket fan, one of the perks of my job is that my office overlooks Old Bridge cricket ground. I have a good view of the playing area, but an ill-placed advertising hoarding means that I can only see the very top of the electronically operated scoreboard. So for a score of 167 I see: There is a match currently in progress. Returning to my desk a few minutes ago, all I could see of the score was: Since then one of the batsmen has scored 4, 6, 4, 6, 6 and 4 from consecutive balls. After the first 4 the part of the score that I can see didn't change. After the first 6 it changed to: It didn't change again until after the third 6, when it became: After the last 4 it returned to: