List A cricket
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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
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