List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket. List A cricket includes One Day International matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

Status

Most Test cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side.

The categorization of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council until 2006,^[1] 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 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. Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included. The list was the work of Philip Bailey and the name is derived simply from there being a list A and a list B.

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 played in ICC World Cricket League Division 2 and above

Matches that do not qualify as List A

• Twenty20 cricket including internationals^[2]
• 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

First List A match

The first List A cricket match was played between Lancashire and Leicestershire in May 1963, in the preliminary round of the Gillette Cup.^[3] Each side batted for 65 overs, and bowlers were restricted to 15 overs each.^[4]

See also

• List of List A cricket records

References

1. "ICC clarifies what counts and what doesn't". Cricinfo. 30 July 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
2. CricketArchive treats List A and Twenty20 separately. When searching on a player, they are separate categories, while a search for List A matches excludes Twenty20.
3. Lancashire v Leicestershire 1963
4. Opening Pandora's one-day box

External source

• ICC clarifies what counts and what doesn't, from Cricinfo, 30 July 2006