Next Matches

New Zealand tour of India : 3 test & 5 ODI series, Nov-Dec 2010
Date	Match	Venue
28-30 October 2010	Warm up match	To be decided
4-8 November 2010	India v New Zealand 1st test	Vallabhai Patel, Ahmedabad
12-16 November 2010	India v New Zealand 2nd test	Green park, Kanpur
20-24 November 2010	India v New Zealand 3rd test	VCA stadium, Nagpur
28 November 2010	India v New Zealand 1st oneday	Nehru stadium, Guwahati
1 December 2010	India v New Zealand 2nd oneday	PCa stadium, Mohali
4 December 2010	India v New Zealand 3rd oneday	Hyderabad (Deccan)
7 December 2010	India v New Zealand 4th oneday	Chinnawamy, Bengaluru
10 December 2010	India v New Zealand 5th oneday	Chepauk, Chennai

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India Cricket Schedule : Year 2010

January	India in Bangladesh	2 Test + Triseries	India in Bdesh 2010
February-March	South Africa in India	3 Test + 5 ODI	SA in Ind 2010
April	T20 WC in West Indies	Twenty20 World Cup	World T20 2010
May	India in Zimbabwe	Triseries, 2 T20	Ind in Zim 2010
June	Asia Cup	ODI tournament	Asia cup 2010
July-Aug	India in Sri Lanka	Tests, Triseries	India in SL 2010
October	Australia in India	2 test, 3 ODI	Aus in Ind 2010
November	New Zealand in India	3 Test + 5 ODI	NZ in Ind 2010
December	India in SAfrica	Test, ODI, T20	India in SA 2010

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Members

Main article: List of International Cricket Council members

Full Members

Full Members are the governing bodies for cricket in a country or associated countries. Full Members may also represent a geographical area. All Full Members have a right to send one representative team to play official Test matches. Also, all Full Member nations are automatically qualified to play ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals.^[46] West Indies cricket team does not represent one country instead an amalgamation of over 20 countries from the Caribbean. The English Cricket team represents both England and Wales.

Nation	Governing body	Member since	Current ODIRankings	Current TestRankings	Current T20RankingsB
Australia	Cricket Australia	15 July 1909[46]	1	3	2
Bangladesh	Bangladesh Cricket Board	26 June 2000[46]	9	9	10
England	England and Wales Cricket Board	15 July 1909[46]	5	5	6
India	Board of Control for Cricket in India	31 May 1926[46]	2	1	5
New Zealand	New Zealand Cricket	31 May 1926[46]	4	6	8
Pakistan	Pakistan Cricket Board	28 July 1953[46]	7	7	1
South Africa	Cricket South Africa	15 July 1909A[46]	3	2	3
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Cricket	21 July 1981[46]	6	4	4
West Indies	West Indies Cricket Board	31 May 1926[46]	8	8	7
Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe Cricket Union	6 July 1992[46]	10	-	9

^AResigned May 1961, readmitted 10 July 1991.

^BT20 Rankings are solely based on the Win Percentage of all T20 matches played amongst Full Members.

Other types of matches

Main article: Forms of cricket

Indian boys playing cricket on the street with a tennis ball in Uttar Pradesh,India.

There are numerous variations of the sport played throughout the world that include indoor cricket, French cricket, beach cricket, Kwik cricket and all sorts of card games and board games that have been inspired by cricket. In these variants, the rules are often changed to make the game playable with limited resources or to render it more convenient and enjoyable for the participants.

Indoor cricket is played in a netted, indoor arena, and is quite formal but many of the outdoor variants are very informal.

Families and teenagers play backyard cricket in suburban yards or driveways, and the cities of India and Pakistan play host to countless games of "Gully Cricket" or "tapeball" in their long narrow streets. Sometimes the rules are improvised: e.g. it may be agreed that fielders can catch the ball with one hand after one bounce and claim a wicket; or if only a few people are available then everyone may field while the players take it in turns to bat and bowl. Tennis balls and homemade bats are often used, and a variety of objects may serve as wickets: for example, the batter's legs as in French cricket, which did not in fact originate in France, and is usually played by small children.

In Kwik cricket, the bowler does not have to wait for the batsman to be ready before a delivery, leading to a faster, more exhausting game designed to appeal to children, which is often used PE lessons at English schools. Another modification to increase the pace of the game is the "Tip and Run", "Tipity" Run, "Tipsy Run" or "Tippy-Go" rule, in which the batter must run when the ball touches the bat, even if it the contact is unintentional or minor. This rule, seen only in impromptu games, speeds the match up by removing the batsman's right to block the ball.

In Samoa a form of cricket called Kilikiti is played in which hockey stick-shaped bats are used. In original English cricket, the hockey stick shape was replaced by the modern straight bat in the 1760s after bowlers began to pitch the ball instead of rolling or skimming it. In Estonia, teams gather over the winter for the annual Ice Cricket tournament. The game juxtaposes the normal summer pursuit with harsh, wintry conditions. Rules are otherwise similar to those for the six-a-side game.