World's longest cricket marathon
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The World's Longest Cricket Marathon is a world record
currently held by Blunham Cricket Club from Bedfordshire in England. The club played for 105 hours from 10am Thursday 26th August 2010 until stumps were drawn at 7pm on Monday 30th August 2010. Guinness World records ratified the attempt on 8th April 2011. The club played in pink and purple to highlight cancer charities for both men and women.
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World record
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currently held by Blunham Cricket Club from Bedfordshire in England. The club played for 105 hours from 10am Thursday 26th August 2010 until stumps were drawn at 7pm on Monday 30th August 2010. Guinness World records ratified the attempt on 8th April 2011. The club played in pink and purple to highlight cancer charities for both men and women.
Previous record holders (ratified)
- The record was originally set by Cricket Club des Ormes in FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- 26 hours and 13 minutes in 2003 - Cheriton Fitzpaine Cricket Club, Devon, England - 27 hours 34 minutes set on 24 to 25 June 2006 and ratified on 19 September 2006
- Red Row Cricket Club, Northumberland, England - 34 hours set on 26 to 27 May 2007
- Chestfield Cricket Club, Chestfield, Kent, England - 35 hours
- Cornwall CC of Auckland, New Zealand - 55 hours
- Blunham Cricket Club, Bedfordshire, England - 59 hours 33 minutes set on 19–21 September 2008, ratified 3 December 2008.
- Raymond Terrace District Cricket Club (RTDCC), at Raymond Terrace, New South WalesRaymond Terrace, New South WalesRaymond Terrace is a town in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about by road north of Newcastle on the Pacific Highway. Established in 1837 it is situated at the confluence of the Hunter and Williams rivers and has about 12,600 residents. It is the administrative centre of the Port...
, Australia - 66 hours and 16 minutes on 24 to 27 January 2009 - New South Wales Police Force officers, at Pat Morley Oval, Bateau Bay, NSW, Australia - 67 hr 9 min on 8-11 February 2009
- Cornwall CC of Auckland, New Zealand. The match lasted for 100 hours and was played between 3rd and 7th of January 2010. The record was achieved by CCC at their home ground at Cornwall Park in Auckland, New Zealand and raised over $7,000 for Starship Childrens Hospital. Over 50 innings were played and more than 10,428 balls bowled.
Rules
The record is the amount of cumulative playing time, after breaks are discounted, of a continuous game of cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
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- Breaks are limited to 5 minutes per 1 hour of playing time
- There are two teams and these teams are limited to 12-a-side (11 on the field plus one "sub")
- No player is permitted to leave the ground unless they are incapacitated
- A break is not permitted between innings.