Short Form of Cricket
Cricket is also played in several different shortened forms, designed to pack as much action as possible into an hour or two. Such forms have evolved since the 1990s, and take cricket an additional step beyond one-day cricket.
See short form cricket for details about specific types of short form cricket.
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