List A cricket

The term “cricket” refers to a kind of cricket tournament that is played over the course of one day and is limited to a maximum of eight hours per. This is the  A list cricket. There are a variety of domestic tournaments and One-Day International (ODI) games that are included in the List A cricket. The amount of overs that each side plays in an inning may vary anywhere from forty to sixty.

 

Additionally, this includes a number of international tournaments in which teams who do not have an official One-Day International status are required to participate. According to the International Cricket Council (ICC), it is one of the three fundamental forms of cricket that are recognized. The other two formats are Twenty20 and first-class games.

What is List A Cricket

Competitions held at home list A cricket tournament is organized in almost every nation in which the sport of cricket is practiced. To add insult to injury, the majority of games are restricted to a fifty overs restriction.

An English cricket statistician named Philip Bailey was the one who came up with the idea for the List A cricket classification, which was introduced in 2006. It is important to note that this classification was offered by Bailey. Although the ICC hesitated for a long time to adopt the appropriate decision, ultimately, the organization’s representatives had to acknowledge that a new format was necessary. The proper criteria have been produced by the professionals who are active in the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. These standards have made it possible to organize players’ career records and stats according to the model used in first-class contests.

Thus, List A cricket includes the most notable One Day International (ODI) competitions from each participating country, as well as test matches against visiting teams. All games have been divided into three categories:

1. List A – matches that are included in the final list and are reflected in the statistics;
2. List B – matches whose participants generally meet first-class standards, but the game itself does not have the required status (for example, an exhibition one);
3. List C – matches whose participants were previously included in the first list (thanks to this, the statistics retains the required accuracy).

List A Cricket: Records

Of course, like any other format, List A cricket has its own records. So, in particular:

• The maximum number of runs on account of Graham Gooch (England) – 22211, Graeme Hick (England) – 22059 and Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 21999.
• Sachin Tendulkar – 60, Virat Kohli (India) – 47 and Graeme Gooch – 44 have completed the largest number of hundreds in their careers.
• The maximum number of fifty were scored by Graham Gooch (139 for 601 innings), Graham Hick (139 for 630 innings) and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) – 116 for 385 innings.
• Top individual performers are Alistair Brown (England) – 268, Rohit Sharma (India) – 264 and D’Arcy Short (Australia) – 257.
• The most effective batsmen roster came from Morne van Wyk and Cameron Delport (367 runs on the first wicket), Chris Gale and Marlon Samuels (372 runs on the second wicket), and Sanju Samson and Sachin Baby (338 runs on the third wicket).
• The maximum number of wickets was awarded by Wasim Akram (Pakistan) – 881, Allan Donald (South Africa) – 684 and Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) – 682.
• Best bowling performers are Shahbaz Nadim (India) – 8/10, Rahula Sanghvi (India) – 8/15 and Chaminda Vaasa (Sri Lanka) – 8/19.
• Graham Hick (651), Graham Gooch (613) and Wasim Akram (594) played the most games in List A cricket.

Interestingly, the first match, which was later included in List A cricket, took place in May 1963 as part of the preliminary round of the Gillette Cup. The teams from Lancashire and Leicestershire took part in it, and each got the right to 65 overs, and the bowlers were limited to fifteen.