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'''List A cricket''' is a classification of the [[Limited overs cricket|limited-overs]] (one-day) form of the sport of [[cricket]], with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes [[One Day International]] (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an [[innings]] per team ranges from forty to sixty, most commonly fifty overs, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with [[First-class cricket|first-class]] and [[Twenty20]] cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the [[International Cricket Council]] (ICC).<ref>{{cite web |title=Types of Cricket Matches |url=https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/Types-of-cricket-matches |website=HowTheyPlay |access-date=18 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/2355517 |title=ICC Board appoints Afghanistan Working Group |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenscriczone.com/icc-appoints-working-group-to-review-afghanistan-cricket |title=ICC appoints Working Group to review status of Afghanistan cricket; women's First Class, List A classification to align with men's game |work=Women's CricZone |access-date=17 November 2021|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117092621/https://www.womenscriczone.com/icc-appoints-working-group-to-review-afghanistan-cricket|archive-date=November 17, 2021}}</ref>

==Status==
Most [[Test cricket]]ing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of [[over (cricket)|over]]s in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, most commonly fifty overs.

The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by the [[International Cricket Council]] until 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/255055.html |title=ICC clarifies what counts and what doesn't |date=30 July 2006 |access-date=20 May 2009 |publisher=[[Cricinfo]]}}</ref> when the ICC announced it, along with its member associations, would be determining this classification in a manner similar to that done for first-class matches.

The [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]] created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow the generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches. Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included. The categorisation was the work of Philip Bailey.

Matches were divided into three categories: 
* List A comprised the matches to be included in the final list.
* List B was for matches where the players were of First-Class standard but the match was not considered to be of sufficient status (e.g. exhibition matches).
* List C was to collect any other matches played by a team that had at some time previously appeared in List A, thus showing that the status of such matches had not been overlooked.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stats.acscricket.com/ListA/Detail.html |title=ListA Status |date=30 March 2015 |access-date=12 January 2021 |publisher=[[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]]}}</ref>

=== Matches that qualify as List A ===
* One Day Internationals (ODIs)
* Certain other international matches
* Premier one-day tournaments in the [[List of International Cricket Council members#Full Members|12 ICC Full Members]]
* Official matches of a touring Test team against main first-class teams
* Matches played in [[ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League]] and above, and previously the higher levels of the [[ICC World Cricket League]]

=== Matches that do not qualify as List A ===
* [[Twenty20 cricket]], including internationals, which is classified separately
* World Cup warm-up matches
* Other Tourist matches (for example, against first-class teams that are not part of the main domestic first-class competition, such as universities)
* Festival and friendly matches
* Matches not played under standard conditions (for example, more than 11 players per side)

==First List A match==
The first match retrospectively designated as a 'List A' game was played between [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] and [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] in May 1963, in the preliminary round of the [[Gillette Cup (England)|Gillette Cup]].<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/25/25997.html Lancashire v Leicestershire 1963]</ref> Each side batted for 65 overs, and bowlers were restricted to 15 overs each.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/630566.html|title=Opening Pandora's one-day box}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of List A cricket records]]

==References==
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==External source==
* [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/255055.html ICC clarifies what counts and what doesn't], from [[Cricinfo]], 30 July 2006

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