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Vijay Hazare Trophy is very much discussed in India these days. This List-A tournament started from 24th December and will end on 18th January. Famous players including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh have so far scored centuries in this tournament. But what is this List-A tournament, are its rules different from ODI matches? Know everything about List-A cricket here.
What is List-A cricket?
Understand the real definition of List-A cricket, when 40-60 overs are bowled in each innings of a match, then it comes under List-A match. This means the formats of forty overs, fifty overs and 60 overs are called List-A cricket. These matches are usually played with white ball.
Vijay Hazare Trophy (India), Pakistan Cup (Pakistan), The Ford Trophy (Australia) are some of the popular List-A cricket tournaments in the world. One Day matches held at the international level i.e. ODI matches are also a form of List-A cricket, hence the statistics of ODI matches are also added to the List-A records. Domestic and non-international 40-60 over cricket matches are called List-A matches. Whereas ODI matches are played at the international level.
Virat Kohli has more than 16000 runs in his name
Virat Kohli has more than 16,000 runs in his name in List-A cricket. Out of these, Virat has scored 14,557 runs in ODI matches, while the remaining runs have been scored in Indian domestic cricket. Virat Kohli is currently at second place in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored the most runs in List-A cricket. Sachin Tendulkar scored 21,999 runs in his List-A career, while Virat Kohli has so far scored 16,207 runs in List-A cricket.
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