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Club cricket
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Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening.
Some club cricket is played with limited overs, with each innings usually lasting between twenty and fifty overs. Other club cricket is played over an afternoon or an entire day, sometimes with the restriction that no more than 20 overs may be bowled in the rest of the match after a certain time, or with a large total of overs to be split between the two sides (often 100 or 120 overs). In some leagues, matches are played over both Saturday and Sunday, or, alternatively, over successive Saturdays (though this can sometimes have unfortunate effects on the game where the condition of the pitch and ground changes radically from one week to the next). These matches usually have two innings per side. Apart from this, matches are generally of one innings per side.
Most players are amateur, but often cricket clubs employ the services of professionals as coaches and players. Many of these have played first class or Test cricket. Also, First class players returning from injury will sometimes appear at club level as match practice (For example, Shoaib Akhtar during the 2006 tour of England).
Traditionally, club cricket is enjoyed as much for the social element as for the competition. This is particularly true in England where the between innings teas and post-match beer are as important as the result. However this may vary depending on the standard. Standards of play can vary from semi-professional to occasional recreational level. While many clubs train in similar ways to professional teams, village or park cricket is played purely for fun.
Club cricket is played extensively in cricketing nations, and also by immigrants from cricketing nations. Club cricket can take place on an artificial turf pitch or a more traditional grass pitch. The rest of actual field is usually natural grass.
Most clubs have their own ground to play on regularly, including a field and pavilion or club house. Some also have nets for practice. Clubs without grounds are known as wandering sides.
The main nations that Club cricket is played in are England, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, and in some of the major cities in India.
See: List of English cricket clubs
| Forms of cricket | |
|---|---|
| International: Test cricket | One-Day International | Twenty20 | Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes | Women's cricket | |
| Other: First-class cricket | Limited overs cricket | List A cricket | Club cricket | |
| Variations: Indoor cricket | French cricket | Backyard cricket | Kwik cricket | Catchy Shubby Cricket | Blind cricket | Kilikiti | Short form cricket |