Backyard cricket

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Backyard cricket, also known as bat ball, street cricket, beach cricket, corridor cricket, garden cricket, gully cricket (on the Indian subcontinent) and box cricket (in instances of shorter grounds), is an informal variant of 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. In backyard cricket, gully cricket is an informal form of cricket played in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Backyard cricket has connotations 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.^[1] In the South Asian region, gully cricket is very popular.^[2]