Beach Cricket Rules
TOURNAMENT | - Knockout tournament - winning team goes through to the next round
- Players enter at their own risk
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| TEAMS | - 6 players per team
- All ages, boys, girls, mums, dads, mates
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| RULES | Batting- Batters in pairs (3 pairs per team)
- Each team faces 12 x 4 ball overs
- Each batting pair receives 4 overs
- Each batting pair starts with 50 runs
- A hit into the water is worth 10 runs
- Batters lose 20 runs if caught in the water
- Batters lose 5 runs per dismissal and change ends
- No LBW
- Bat at one end only
Bowling- Each bowler bowls 2 overs
- Under arm bowling allowed
- When bowled, ball must land on batters' side of marked line or no ball declared
- Wides and No balls are not re-bowled (except in last over). Wides & No balls are worth 2 runs
- Next delivery after a wide or no ball is a free hit to batter (only run out rule applies with a free hit)
- Bowlers may only have a maximum of 4 steps in run up
Fielding- Fielding team must at all times have 2 players on leg side, 2 players on off side, 1 wicketkeeper and 1 bowler
- All fielders rotate positions clockwise at the end of each over
- No fielder within 10m of batter
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*Players must use supplied equipment
