England T20 cricket and cricket scoring is still stupid (1 Viewer)

Well England were duly beaten in the first T20 match.
The official score was 'West Indies won by 6 wickets'. even though they lost 4 wickets and England lost 6, a difference of only 2 wickets.
Here was the scorecard:

England 182-6 (20 overs): Root 48 (36), Russell 2-36
West Indies 183-4 (18.1 overs): Gayle 100 not out

So logically the result could be stated as:
West Indies won by 1 run, or
West Indies won by 2 wickets, or
West Indies won by 1 over and 5 balls, or
Gayle beat England by 100 runs

This 6 wickets business is utter nonsense. The object of the game surely is runs not wickets.

SkyblueBazza said:

Said the person who has a poor understanding of the scoring process

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In cricket, you don't score with wickets, you score with runs.