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List A cricket is a classification of thelimited-overs (one-day) form of the sport ofcricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includesOne Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in aninnings per team ranges from forty to sixty, most commonly fifty overs, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together withfirst-class andTwenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by theInternational Cricket Council (ICC).[1] In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game.[2][3]
MostTest cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number ofovers in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, most commonly fifty overs.
The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by theInternational Cricket Council until 2006,[4] when the ICC announced it, along with its member associations, would be determining this classification in a manner similar to that done for first-class matches.
TheAssociation 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 categorisation was the work of Philip Bailey.
Matches were divided into three categories:
The first match retrospectively designated as a 'List A' game was played betweenLancashire andLeicestershire in May 1963, in the preliminary round of theGillette Cup.[6] Each side batted for 65 overs, and bowlers were restricted to 15 overs each.[7]
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