Cricket

Cricket disciplines include: Test match, Limited Over (One Day), Twenty20, and Indoor.

Cricket Blast, opens in a new tab. For children aged up to 10 years old. Experience the joy of backyard cricket in a more structured way. Cricket-based game-based activities recreate the magic and lasting memories of pick-up games of cricket.

Pop-up Blast, opens in a new tab. Recommended for children aged 5-10. Uses plastic bats and a rubber ball. Activities use softer balls of different sizes, as well as blind cricket balls, so kids can participate and develop at their own pace.

Anywhere Blast, opens in a new tab. Designed to make sure every child has access to fun and engaging cricket activities, even if you don’t have a cricket bat or ball at home. The program features a list of our top activity ideas that use everyday household items to make it easy to have fun anywhere!

Junior club cricket, opens in a new tab. For children aged 9 to 18 years old.  Junior club cricket has smaller team sizes, reduced pitch length and boundaries, and shortened match lengths.

Daughters and Dads, opens in a new tab. A program designed with a combination of cricket skills and well-being education for primary school girls aged 7-12 years and their dads (or father figure) with no cricket experience required.

Womens' social smash, opens in a new tab. The program has a focus on health and wellbeing, social connection, and enjoyment. With high energy modified games, it maximises time on the most entertaining components of the game and gives everyone the chance to have a go at it all. At stumps, there’s more opportunity to connect and celebrate newfound skills and friends.

Blind Cricket, opens in a new tab. Administered and controlled at a National level by Blind Cricket Australia (BCA) and at the State level by respective State BCA affiliate members. A side is made up of four totally blind (B1's), three partially blind (B2's) and four partially sighted (B3's). Each sight category has a 12th person (14 players in total).

• Blind Cricket Beginners Guide to Coaching, opens in a new tab, Blind Sports Australia, (2024). An invaluable resource for people wanting to coach blind cricket or incorporate into school activities or at club level.

Deaf Cricket, opens in a new tab. The first interstate deaf cricket match took place with Victoria and South Australia in 1894. Deaf Cricket Australia is the one of the oldest Deaf sport organisations in Australia.

criiio cricket programme, opens in a new tab. An easy to deliver 8-week lesson plan which will introduce the fundamentals of batting, bowling and fielding as well as the basic rules of the game. It provides a fun first experience of cricket to participants new to the game.

100-ball cricket, opens in a new tab. A form of limited overs cricket with 100 balls per innings (slightly shorter than Twenty20). Whoever scores the most runs wins. The Hundred, opens in a new tab is the professional cricket league.

Recreation

• Beach Cricket. Informal version of the game, played on sand at the beach.
• Street/Backyard Cricket. Informal and accessible version of the game. It often involves makeshift equipment, improvised rules, and is played on streets or open spaces.
• French Cricket. Informal version commonly played by children at outdoor parties or picnics.