Backyard cricket

It is typically played in various non-traditional venues such as gardens, backyards, streets, parks, carparks, beaches, and any area not specifically designed for the sport.

Backyard cricket has connections to the pastimes of Australian, South African and New Zealand and English children who frequently lived on properties with large backyards, providing the facility to play this informal game of sport often with friends, family and neighbors.

[2] Though loosely based upon the game of cricket, many aspects are improvised: the playing ground,[3] the rules, the teams, and the equipment.

Garden/backyard cricket in South Africa and Australia is considered by many to be the pinnacle event of social and sporting excellence in the summer period.

As a generally informal contest, the rules are flexible but usually agreed upon by the players prior to playing it.

In beach cricket the creases and the boundary are normally drawn in the sand in a line which extends well past the side of the agreed pitch to prevent them becoming obliterated in the first over.

Example of beach cricket being played at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Australia. The bowler bowls to batter, while the rest field.
Three Hyderabadi boys playing with cricket bats and a ball
Backyard cricket—an informal variant of cricket played the Hyderabad city almost by all age groups.
Gully cricket in a remote Himalayan village of Himachal Pradesh , India; rocks and sticks are often used as wickets
In this example the tide is out and so the field of play is greatly increased.
A plaquita bowler about to bowl, with the nonstriker in his crease. Plaquita is a form of Dominican street cricket likely originating from British and West Indian influences. [ 16 ] [ 17 ]