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== Indoor cricket ==

Indoor cricket is completely different to regular cricket, has its own league and a completely different set of countries are good at it.  It is not supported anywhere near as much as regular cricket, although it is very popular at a social level.  Many indoor cricket centres exist, often next to tenpin bowling centres (or in the same facility).  Sometimes they share the same area as an indoor netball or indoor basketball centre.

Structure of indoor cricket:
* 8 players per side.
* Each player (including the wicket keeper) bowls 2 x 8 ball overs each.
* When the wicket keeper is bowling, someone else becomes the wicket keeper.
* Players bat 2 players at a time for a total of 4 overs each.
* If you are out then you lose 5 runs and keep playing.
* There are a total of 16 x 8 ball overs.
* Teams bat for the entire 16 overs, even if they have passed the opposition's score.
* Players can be out caught off the net.

Indoor cricket is played in small areas about the same size as a basketball court (and sometimes the same area is also used to play basketball), completely enclosed in netting.  They bowl with a yellow spongy ball, which doesn't hurt as much as a regular cricket ball.  The area between the wickets is much smaller than usual.  

Indoor cricket is played at an international level and is roughly equally as popular as tenpin bowling.  Tenpin bowling and indoor cricket, as mentioned above, are often played in the same centre.

Indoor cricket is commonly played in mixed gender competitions (except for serious international and state level) as women are roughly equally as capable of playing indoor cricket as men are (whilst in regular cricket the difference is enormous due to strength/size etc).  Indoor cricket, unlike regular cricket, is roughly equally as popular amongst men and women.

On a world stage, indoor cricket is about 10-20 times less popular than regular cricket.