Format

Australia won the first Test in 1877 by 45 runs, and remarkably the centenary Test of 1977 produced the same result by the same ma...

The first ODI was arranged almost by accident in 1971 after rain washed out the Melbourne Test. The World Cup followed in 1975, co...

Australia and New Zealand played the first T20 International at Auckland in February 2005, wearing retro kits in a festival mood. ...

First class cricket is the domestic long form of the game, with two innings per side. The County Championship began officially in ...

List A covers the domestic one day game beneath international level. The Gillette Cup of 1963 in England was the first major limit...

The first T20 competition was the Twenty20 Cup in England in 2003. The Indian Premier League launched in 2008 and became the riche...

The Hundred compresses each innings to 100 balls, with five ball overs and the bowling end changing every ten balls. Eight city fr...

T10 squeezes a match into about 90 minutes, the length of a football game. The first T10 League was staged at Sharjah in December ...

Australia and New Zealand contested the first day night Test in November 2015, using a pink ball visible under floodlights. Attend...

The first Womens Cricket World Cup was staged in England in 1973, two years before the inaugural mens tournament, and was won by t...