Sachin tandulkar first interview

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.