Why it is worth a glance
"32 off 19" tells you a batter is going well. The strip tells you how — whether that came in one violent over or steadily, and whether they are on song right now or have just been tied down for eight balls. Captains set fields on that.
What counts as a ball faced
The strip follows scorecard rules exactly: a wide never appears, because a wide is not a ball faced. That is deliberate — count the chips and they always match the (balls) figure beside the batter's runs.
The same colour language runs everywhere: green fours, purple sixes, red wickets, orange wides and no-balls, grey dots.