Innings and Outs of Indoor Cricket
Can’t tell your unders from your overs? We’ve got you covered 👍
Played in a netted enclosure, indoor cricket follows similar rules to standard cricket, with some subtle variations.
There are 2 x ‘innings’ in a game, consisting of 16 x 6 ball ‘overs’. An over is six legal deliveries bowled by the same player. Matches last approximately 1 hour 10 minutes, consisting of 2 x 30-35 minute innings.
One team bats while the other bowls/fields. 2 players bat at the same time, and score runs depending on where they hit the ball and how many times they run between wickets. In indoor cricket players only need to run half of the length of the pitch to score.
Half of the players of the fielding team must start each delivery in the bowling half of the court, and half must start in the batting half.
All members of the fielding team bowl 2 x overs each, and each batting pair faces 4 x overs before being replaced with other players from their team - even if they are dismissed. If a batsman is ‘out’ or ‘dismissed’, they lose 5 runs from their score but remain in bat until the end of their turn.
This video gives a really good overview of the rules of (outdoor) cricket 👆
👆 This one gives an awesome run down of how indoor cricket differs slightly to outdoor cricket.
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