List A cricket - Definition

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. 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.

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 .

The categorization of cricket matches as "List A" is not endorsed by the International Cricket Council, but one-day matches can never be regarded as first class. The Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians 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. 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:
  • 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

External link

• Explanation from the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/SOCIETIES/ENG/ACS/ARTICLES/LIMITED_OVER_A-STATUS.html)

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