List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Much as domestic first-class cricket is the level below international Test match cricket, so List A cricket is the domestic level of one-day cricket below One Day Internationals. First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by Test cricket is the longest form of the Sport of Cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations NightMatchOldTraffordjpg|right|thumb|350px|A night match at Old Trafford. Note Most of the information here pertains to men's cricket ODI matches are also played in Women's cricket.
Most cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side. In the sport of Cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession
The categorization of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council until 2006, when the ICC announced that it and its member associations would be determining this classification in a manner similar to that done for first class matches. The International Cricket Council (ICC is the international governing body of Cricket. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow the generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included.
- Matches that qualify as List A:
- One-day Internationals (ODIs)
- Other international matches
- Premier one-day tournaments in each country
- Official matches of a touring Test team against main first-class teams
- Matches that do not qualify as List A:
- Twenty20 cricket including internationals [1]
- World Cup warm-up matches
- Other Tourist matches (for example, against first-class teams that are not part of the main domestic first-class competition, such as universities)
- Festival and friendly matches
See also
List of List A cricket records
References
- ^ CricketArchive treats List A and Twenty20 separately. Twenty20 is a form of Cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board This is a list of List A cricket records; that is record team and individual performances in List A cricket. CricketArchive is a Website that aims to provide a comprehensive Archive of records relating to the Sport of Cricket. When searching on a player, they are separate categories, while a search for List A matches excludes Twenty20.
External source
- ICC clarifies what counts and what doesn't, from Cricinfo, 30 July 2006
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