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Kwik cricket

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Kwik cricket is a high-speed version of cricket aimed mainly at encouraging children to take part in the main sport.

Many of the rules are adapted from cricket, but Kwik cricket is played with a plastic bat and ball, and plastic cones to mark the maximum width of a legally bowled ball. The rules can be altered so that virtually any number of children can play in the time available, and the game can be made easier or more difficult by changing the physical dimensions of the pitch (changing the width of the wickets, increasing the distance between the wickets, widening or narrowing the crease, pulling in or pushing out the boundery, etc).

For example, Continuous Kwik Cricket can be played by two groups of 10 or 12, with each batting for a set period of time, the Lord's Game can be played by two groups of four or five, and Pairs Kwik Cricket works for groups of 8, each playing as a pair and rotating the roles (batsmen; bowler and wicketkeeper; on-side and off-side fielders).