Declaration and forfeiture

Declaration - event in cricket, in which a captain declares his team’s innings closed when the ball is dead, at any time during a match, often because enough runs have been scored to win and more time batting would ease opponents’ playing out for a draw. Article “Declaration and forfeiture” in English Wikipedia has 24.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Declaration and forfeiture”, its content was written by 63 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 103 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1474 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2159 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17929 in November 2014
• Global: #70750 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #84532 in June 2023
• Global: #155724 in June 2023

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		27.1977
2	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		24.5061
3	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		15.0916
4	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		12.0808
5	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		10.9222
6	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		6.8903
7	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		5.0178

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Declaration and forfeiture" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		456 107
2	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		8 066
3	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		4 630
4	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		3 268
5	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		2 520
6	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		683
7	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		262

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Declaration and forfeiture" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		967
2	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		22
3	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		13
4	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		11
5	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		7
6	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		6
7	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Declaration and forfeiture" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		63
2	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		16
3	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		9
4	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		5
5	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		4
6	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		3
7	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Declaration and forfeiture" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		1
2	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		0
3	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		0
4	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		0
5	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		0
6	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		0
7	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Declaration and forfeiture" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Declaration and forfeiture		1 474
2	Urdu (ur) ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر		614
3	Tamil (ta) அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்		34
4	Italian (it) Dichiarazione (cricket)		18
5	French (fr) Déclaration (cricket)		14
6	Polish (pl) Deklaracja (krykiet)		4
7	Chinese (zh) 声明及放弃		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Declaration and forfeiture
fr	French Déclaration (cricket)
it	Italian Dichiarazione (cricket)
pl	Polish Deklaracja (krykiet)
ta	Tamil அறிவித்தலும் விட்டுக்கொடுத்தலும்
ur	Urdu ڈکلیئریشن اورفارفیچر
zh	Chinese 声明及放弃

Best Rank

English: #84532 06.2023

Global: #155724 06.2023

Best Rank

English: #17929 11.2014

Global: #70750 11.2014

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