Advisory essay on notability of project-specific topics
This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest.
This page is part of the WikiProject on Cricket and provides a list of matches that have been played at the highest international or domestic level. It is intended to be used as an aid in considering the WP:NCRIC guideline on individual player presumed notability. Presumed notability refers to the player playing in a competition, and not the competition itself. Certain competitions may get good coverage, but that does not always trickle down to the players. For example it's likely the Irish competitions get good coverage, but that doesn't always trickle down to domestic only players. Players with presumed coverage are those the cricket WikiProject believe to have a number of suitable in-depth sources written about them. The presumption of coverage is the belief that sources do exist for those players. Playing in a non-notable tournament doesn't immediately disqualify someone from being notable. Players that have played in tournaments deemed non-notable may still be notable if they can be shown to pass the wider requirements of GNG.
In 2017, the International Cricket Council (ICC) published a document called the "ICC Classification of Official Cricket".[1] In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied first-class and List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game.[2][3]
The addition/removal of any competition or matches from this list first need consensus from the Cricket WikiProject before their addition/removal.
Test cricket, all official men's matches since 1877 and all official women's matches since 1934.
One Day Internationals (ODIs), all official men's matches since 1971 and all official women's matches since 1973.
Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), all men's matches from 2005–2019 and all women's matches since 2004–June 2018. Then all T20Is for Full Member countries and T20Is for Associate member countries in a World T20 (men's and women's) or ICC Global Qualifier (men's and women's).
The following men's tournaments are played at the highest domestic level that presumes notability for a player playing in the competition and are listed with their current names.
First-class tournaments
The following tournaments have first-class cricket status that the Cricket WikiProject deems notable enough to presume coverage for a player taking part in the following tournaments:
The following tournaments have List A cricket status that the Cricket WikiProject deems notable enough to presume coverage for a player taking part in the following tournaments:
The Cricket WikiProject deems only matches between two first-class counties as being notable enough to presume coverage in English and Welsh List A tournaments. A list of first-class counties can be found here.
The following tournaments have Twenty20 status that the Cricket WikiProject deems notable enough to presume coverage for a player taking part in the following tournaments:
^While The Hundred is only a 100-ball competition, player statistics for the tournament will be listed under their Twenty20 stats.
^The International League T20 is the first ICC Associate Member league to have received List A Status., player statistics for the tournament will be listed under their Twenty20 stats.
^The Major League Cricket became the second Associate-run franchise competition to acquire List A status from the ICC, following on from the UAE's ILT20, player statistics for the tournament will be listed under their Twenty20 stats.
Men's Competitions with First-class/List A/T20 status that we don't deem notable
The following Women's Domestic tournaments the Cricket WikiProject deem notable enough to presume coverage for a player taking part in the following tournaments: