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🏏 CricketIn the queue
A bat, a ball, 22 yards, and a subcontinent's entire personality.
- Players
- 11 a side (6-8 in gully)
- Innings
- 1-2 per side
- Overs
- T20: 20 · ODI: 50
- Out
- 10 wickets
What is cricket?
Cricket is a duel dressed as a team sport: one bowler, one batter, six balls at a time, with ten fielders arranged like a chess problem around them. Runs pile up in singles and boundaries; the bowling side hunts the ten wickets that end an innings.
And then there is gully cricket - the version most of us actually play. One hand one bounce, current ball, no LBW because nobody agrees on it, and a wall or a chair standing in for the stumps. The formats bend, the arguments do not.
Common rules
How it's played.
- The bowler delivers six legal balls per over; a no-ball or wide is re-bowled and gifts a run.
- Batters score by running between the wickets, or hitting the boundary: four along the ground, six over it on the full.
- A batter is out bowled, caught, run out, stumped, or LBW - plus the rarities scorers dine out on.
- An innings ends when ten wickets fall or the overs run out; the chasing side needs one run more than the target.
- Gully amendments, agree before the toss: one-hand-one-bounce catches, last-batter-bats alone, no leg-side scoring, and the wall decides everything.
Scoring
How it's counted.
- Runs: 1s and 2s run between the wickets, 4 for a boundary along the ground, 6 on the full.
- Extras (wides, no-balls, byes) count to the team without troubling the batter's tally.
- A bowler's figures are wickets for runs conceded; a five-wicket haul is the bowling century.
- The chasing side wins by wickets in hand, the defending side by runs to spare.
Ways your crew plays it.
T20 / box cricket
Twenty overs (or fewer) a side; the format offices and turf arenas actually book. Two hours, everyone bowls, everyone argues.
One-day (ODI)
Fifty overs a side, a full afternoon, and the classic shape of a chase.
Test
Two innings each across five days. Nobody is playing this at lunch, but it is the form the purists rank everything against.
On Tashn
Cricket on Tashn: in the queue.
Cricket is the biggest structural leap in the queue: innings, overs, extras and dismissal types are a richer event model than goals. The short formats - box cricket, turf T20s, office tournaments - are where Tashn's live wall, MVPs and leaderboards fit naturally first.
It is queued; interest decides the order.
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Quick answers
Cricket, in three questions.
How many overs is box cricket?
Usually 5 to 8 overs a side in a booked box or turf slot, though anything up to a T20's 20 overs fits. The format bends to the booking; the arguments stay full-length.
What are the common gully cricket rules?
One-hand-one-bounce catches, current ball, last batter bats alone, no LBW, and the wall or a chair stands in for the stumps. Agree the amendments before the toss - that agreement IS the rulebook.
Can I track box cricket scores and leaderboards for my office?
Soon - cricket is in Tashn's queue, and its short formats are where the live wall, MVPs and leaderboards land first. Vote with the button on this page; foosball is fully playable today.
Names worth arguing about.
Don Bradman
AustraliaA Test average of 99.94 - statistically the biggest outlier in any major sport.
WikipediaSachin Tendulkar
India100 international centuries and the most runs in both Tests and ODIs.
WikipediaMithali Raj
IndiaThe leading run-scorer in the history of women's international cricket.
WikipediaVirat Kohli
IndiaThe modern chase master, with the most ODI centuries in history.
WikipediaKapil Dev
IndiaLed India to its first World Cup in 1983, and retired as Test cricket's leading wicket-taker.
WikipediaMS Dhoni
IndiaThe only captain to win all three major ICC white-ball trophies, and the era's definitive finisher.
Wikipedia
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