First-class cricket
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First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two teams
Alfred Shaw led the England team on the 1881–82 tour
ICC headquarters in Dubai
Lord's Pavilion is the HQ of MCC, who hold copyright of the Laws of Cricket
The Plunket Shield is awarded annually to New Zealand's first-class champions
Twenty20
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Twenty20 is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two tea
First-class cricket
…First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two teams of eleven players…
Lasith Malinga bowling to Shahid Afridi in the 2009 World T20 final at Lord's, London
Former England batsman Andrew Strauss batting for Middlesex against Surrey
Crowd during a match of the 2015 IPL season in Hyderabad, India
Twenty20 matches can have some exciting displays, such as when the batsmen run out to the pitch