Aninnings is one of the divisions of acricket match during which one team takes its turn tobat. Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker ornonstriker). Incricket androunders, "innings" is both singular and plural; this contrasts withbaseball andsoftball in which the singular is "inning".

The earliest known record of the term concerns a match in August 1730 atBlackheath,Kent between aKent side andLondon Cricket Club. The London-basedSt. James Evening Post reported: "'Twas thought that the Kentish champions would have lost their honours by being beat at one innings if time had permitted".^[1][2]

An innings is one of the divisions of a match during which one team takes its turn tobat, and is said to be "in to bat".^[3][4] Innings is the subject of Law 13 in theLaws of Cricket.^[5]

• In afirst-class match, there are up to four innings, with each team due to bat twice (in practice, this is not always the case). In alimited overs match, there are only two innings, with each team batting once (though there can beextra, shortened innings in the case of atie).
• An innings may end in anumber of ways, such as when all but one batsman on the team is gottenout, or in limited overs cricket, when the limited number ofovers for that innings have been bowled.

The term is also used with the meaning of "score" for both the team and each individual batsman. For example, it may be said that "he played an innings of 101", meaning that the player scored 101 runs in his innings (while batting during one of the team's innings). Similarly, it may be said that the team had a first innings (score) of 501.^[5]

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