3 Team Cricket made its debut on July 18 featuring South African players as part of the Solidarity Cup. The format introduced by Cricket South Africa (CSA) can be said as the most complex form of this sport. The sport has come up with limited-overs formats such as One-Dayers, Twenty20 and even T10 but the basis of Test match (or First-class) cricket was never tweaked. However, the 3TC isn’t the first experimentation that too while featuring some of the notable stars.

Here are four experimented forms of cricket which featured star players across the globe:

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429556" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hong-Kong-International-Sixes.jpg" alt="Hong Kong International Sixes" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429556" class="wp-caption-text">Hong Kong International Sixes. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

The Cricket Sixes was a revolutionary format of the game adopted by Hong Kong and hosted a competition in 1992 featuring top nations along with the hosts. In this format, each team will be of six players and will get five overs in every match. The innings is deemed to be completed only after the restricted overs are finished or the 6th wicket of the innings falls. The last unbeaten batsman can play alone with the last dismissed batsman acting as a non-striker.

Every batsman reaching the individual score of 31 has to “retire hurt” and can only return once all the remaining batsman is back in the pavilion. The tournament was graced by many legendary players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, Shane Warne and many more. Tendulkar featured in the 1995 edition where the Indian team was led by Mohammad Azharuddin.

The Indian team settled to Plate Championship despite a strong line-up by defeating West Indies in the Plate finale. The tournament was played between 1992 and 1997 years before resuming in 2001. Things went well until 2012 before the Hong Kong board couldn’t find proper sponsors. Since then, only one edition of the tournament took place – in 2017 which was won by South Africa.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429558" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cricket-Super-Max.jpg" alt="Cricket Super Max" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429558" class="wp-caption-text">Cricket Super Max. (Photo by Simon Baker/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Cricket Super Max was a New Zealand domestic competition in the 1990s invented by their former skipper Martin Crowe. The format of Super Max is nothing but a Twenty20 game divided into multiple innings. The second innings would begin from the scratch just like in the longer format. No bowler is supposed to bowl more than four overs in the match but there is no limit regarding the division of the four overs into the two innings.

In addition to the norms, there will be a ‘Max Zone’ on the field which covers a trapezoid section down the ground on either sides. All the runs that come through the ball passing into that region would be doubled. This meant any player who hits a six through the max zone would be getting 12 runs and a four would turn into eight. This experiment was close to becoming an International format before Twenty20 took over.

The New Zealand national team, named as New Zealand Max Blacks, took on the International sides between 1997 and 2002. New Zealand and England faced off in a 3-match Super Max series in 1997 which the hosts won 2-1 coming from behind. The faced visiting West Indies team in 1999 and won it by a comfortably 5-wicket margin. Later in 2002, the Max Blacks took on the Indian team where they survived a scare from Sachin Tendulkar before closing in a 21-run win.

Sachin smashed 72 from only 27 balls with as many as 12 fours and a six. Two of those fours landed in max zone yielding eight extra runs while the lone six in his innings was apparently a ‘Twelve’ thanks to the max zone. The 72-run knock by Sachin remains as the highest individual score across the five Super Max International matches that took place. Tendulkar scored only five runs in the second essay but picked up five wickets in the four overs he bowled across the two innings.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429566" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Beach-Cricket-tournament.jpg" alt="Beach Cricket tournament" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429566" class="wp-caption-text">Beach Cricket tournament. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Between 2007 and 2009, Australia stood host for the Beach Cricket Tri-Nations featuring retired cricketers across the globe. England, West Indies, New Zealand and South Africa were the teams other than the Aussies who took part across the three editions. This competition was created and sponsored by Australia&#8217;s XXXX Gold beer brand. Allan Border, Graham Gooch, Sir Courtney Walsh, Martin Crowe and Shaun Pollock acted as captains for their respective nations in this Beach Cricket Tri-Nations.

Sir Curtly Ambrose, Denis Lillee, Sir Richard Hadlee, Graeme Hick, Sir Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Mark Waugh, Lance Klusener, Stephen Fleming and Dean Jones were some of the reputed names who featured in this competition. Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Maroubra Beach in Sydney, Scarborough Beach in Perth and Coolangatta Beach in Gold Coast were hosting venues for the three tournaments.

Talking about the rules, the matches will be 8 overs-a-side matches with each team consisting of six players. All the six players will bowl an over each and the players to bowl the final two overs will be decided by the captain. Similarly, the six players will be divided into three pairs and each of them will play two overs. The pair to play the last over will be decided by the skipper of the batting team. If a batsman gets out, the non-striker will take the charge and five runs will be deducted.

However, the batsman dismissed will continue to play until the pair’s quota of two overs gets completed. Graeme Hick held the highest individual score for his 81 in the 2008 competition. In the round 1 game against Australia, he scored 57 runs while batting with his partner Robin Smith and later scored 24 more runs. Later, during the 4th round match against New Zealand, Graeme Hick smashed six sixes in an over.

Summary of Beach Cricket Tri-Nation tournaments:

2007 – Winner: England, Runner-up: Australia, 3rd Place: West Indies

2008 – Winner: New Zealand, Runner-up: England, 3rd Place: Australia

2008 – Winner: South Africa, Runner-up: New Zealand, 3rd Place: Australia

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429565" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Double-Wicket-Cricket.jpg" alt="Double Wicket Cricket" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429565" class="wp-caption-text">Double Wicket Cricket. (Photo Source: YouTube)</figcaption>

Double Wicket Cricket remains one of the most revolutionary forms of the game where a pair of two players will be considered as a team. Though the existence of the format dates back to early decades of the 18th century, this form of cricket began to be popularized in 1990 when star players of top nations played. A double wicket tournament sponsored by Pepsi was played in October in Mumbai.

India had two pairs taking part while the remaining six active Test playing countries let a pair of two top players. The league stage was of four overs aside while the semi-finals and the final saw an increase to six and eight overs respectively. The two players would be allowed until they get out ten times and each dismissal would cost five runs. The Indian pairs Kapil Dev-Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri-Mohammad Azharuddin reached the final of the tournament.

The 17-year-old Tendulkar was the star of the final as he scored 75 from 33 balls with six maximums and five fours despite getting out four times. Tendulkar and Kapil aggregated 95 runs for the loss of five wickets. This meant their final total was 70 after deductions. In reply, Azharuddin-Shastri pair made only 27 runs as they scored 62 runs for the loss of seven wickets.

The format became a successful venture by late 1990s with World Championships being played in Pakistan, West Indies and also in the USA. A couple of championships between 1997 and 2003 featured some of the top cricketers across the globe. Pakistan was easily the most successful team in those competitions as the board allowed some of the big names to take part. The deductions on the loss of a wicket during these championships came down to three runs.

Winning pairs in some of the Double Wicket World Championships:

1997, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Aaqib Javed

1998, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Azhar Mahmood

2001, New Jersey – Wasim Akram and Shahid Afridi

2001, Lahore – Imran Nazir and Shoaib Malik

2003, St Lucia – Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori

3 Team Cricket made its debut on July 18 featuring South African players as part of the Solidarity Cup. The format introduced by Cricket South Africa (CSA) can be said as the most complex form of this sport. The sport has come up with limited-overs formats such as One-Dayers, Twenty20 and even T10 but the basis of Test match (or First-class) cricket was never tweaked. However, the 3TC isn’t the first experimentation that too while featuring some of the notable stars.
<h3>Here are four experimented forms of cricket which featured star players across the globe:</h3>
<h3>4. Hong Kong International Sixes:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429556" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429556" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429556" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hong-Kong-International-Sixes.jpg" alt="Hong Kong International Sixes" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429556" class="wp-caption-text">Hong Kong International Sixes. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
The Cricket Sixes was a revolutionary format of the game adopted by Hong Kong and hosted a competition in 1992 featuring top nations along with the hosts. In this format, each team will be of six players and will get five overs in every match. The innings is deemed to be completed only after the restricted overs are finished or the 6th wicket of the innings falls. The last unbeaten batsman can play alone with the last dismissed batsman acting as a non-striker.
Every batsman reaching the individual score of 31 has to “retire hurt” and can only return once all the remaining batsman is back in the pavilion. The tournament was graced by many legendary players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, Shane Warne and many more. Tendulkar featured in the 1995 edition where the Indian team was led by Mohammad Azharuddin.
The Indian team settled to Plate Championship despite a strong line-up by defeating West Indies in the Plate finale. The tournament was played between 1992 and 1997 years before resuming in 2001. Things went well until 2012 before the Hong Kong board couldn’t find proper sponsors. Since then, only one edition of the tournament took place – in 2017 which was won by South Africa.

<h3>3. Cricket Super Max:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429558" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429558" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-429558" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cricket-Super-Max.jpg" alt="Cricket Super Max" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429558" class="wp-caption-text">Cricket Super Max. (Photo by Simon Baker/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
Cricket Super Max was a New Zealand domestic competition in the 1990s invented by their former skipper Martin Crowe. The format of Super Max is nothing but a Twenty20 game divided into multiple innings. The second innings would begin from the scratch just like in the longer format. No bowler is supposed to bowl more than four overs in the match but there is no limit regarding the division of the four overs into the two innings.
In addition to the norms, there will be a ‘Max Zone’ on the field which covers a trapezoid section down the ground on either sides. All the runs that come through the ball passing into that region would be doubled. This meant any player who hits a six through the max zone would be getting 12 runs and a four would turn into eight. This experiment was close to becoming an International format before Twenty20 took over.
The New Zealand national team, named as New Zealand Max Blacks, took on the International sides between 1997 and 2002. New Zealand and England faced off in a 3-match Super Max series in 1997 which the hosts won 2-1 coming from behind. The faced visiting West Indies team in 1999 and won it by a comfortably 5-wicket margin. Later in 2002, the Max Blacks took on the Indian team where they survived a scare from Sachin Tendulkar before closing in a 21-run win.
Sachin smashed 72 from only 27 balls with as many as 12 fours and a six. Two of those fours landed in max zone yielding eight extra runs while the lone six in his innings was apparently a ‘Twelve’ thanks to the max zone. The 72-run knock by Sachin remains as the highest individual score across the five Super Max International matches that took place. Tendulkar scored only five runs in the second essay but picked up five wickets in the four overs he bowled across the two innings.

<h3>2. Beach Cricket:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429566" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429566" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-429566" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Beach-Cricket-tournament.jpg" alt="Beach Cricket tournament" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429566" class="wp-caption-text">Beach Cricket tournament. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
Between 2007 and 2009, Australia stood host for the Beach Cricket Tri-Nations featuring retired cricketers across the globe. England, West Indies, New Zealand and South Africa were the teams other than the Aussies who took part across the three editions. This competition was created and sponsored by Australia&#8217;s XXXX Gold beer brand. Allan Border, Graham Gooch, Sir Courtney Walsh, Martin Crowe and Shaun Pollock acted as captains for their respective nations in this Beach Cricket Tri-Nations.
Sir Curtly Ambrose, Denis Lillee, Sir Richard Hadlee, Graeme Hick, Sir Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Mark Waugh, Lance Klusener, Stephen Fleming and Dean Jones were some of the reputed names who featured in this competition. Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Maroubra Beach in Sydney, Scarborough Beach in Perth and Coolangatta Beach in Gold Coast were hosting venues for the three tournaments.
Talking about the rules, the matches will be 8 overs-a-side matches with each team consisting of six players. All the six players will bowl an over each and the players to bowl the final two overs will be decided by the captain. Similarly, the six players will be divided into three pairs and each of them will play two overs. The pair to play the last over will be decided by the skipper of the batting team. If a batsman gets out, the non-striker will take the charge and five runs will be deducted.
However, the batsman dismissed will continue to play until the pair’s quota of two overs gets completed. Graeme Hick held the highest individual score for his 81 in the 2008 competition. In the round 1 game against Australia, he scored 57 runs while batting with his partner Robin Smith and later scored 24 more runs. Later, during the 4th round match against New Zealand, Graeme Hick smashed six sixes in an over.
Summary of Beach Cricket Tri-Nation tournaments:
2007 – Winner: England, Runner-up: Australia, 3rd Place: West Indies
2008 – Winner: New Zealand, Runner-up: England, 3rd Place: Australia
2008 – Winner: South Africa, Runner-up: New Zealand, 3rd Place: Australia

<h3>1. Double Wicket Cricket:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429565" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429565" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-429565" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Double-Wicket-Cricket.jpg" alt="Double Wicket Cricket" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429565" class="wp-caption-text">Double Wicket Cricket. (Photo Source: YouTube)</figcaption></figure>
Double Wicket Cricket remains one of the most revolutionary forms of the game where a pair of two players will be considered as a team. Though the existence of the format dates back to early decades of the 18th century, this form of cricket began to be popularized in 1990 when star players of top nations played. A double wicket tournament sponsored by Pepsi was played in October in Mumbai.
India had two pairs taking part while the remaining six active Test playing countries let a pair of two top players. The league stage was of four overs aside while the semi-finals and the final saw an increase to six and eight overs respectively. The two players would be allowed until they get out ten times and each dismissal would cost five runs. The Indian pairs Kapil Dev-Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri-Mohammad Azharuddin reached the final of the tournament.
The 17-year-old Tendulkar was the star of the final as he scored 75 from 33 balls with six maximums and five fours despite getting out four times. Tendulkar and Kapil aggregated 95 runs for the loss of five wickets. This meant their final total was 70 after deductions. In reply, Azharuddin-Shastri pair made only 27 runs as they scored 62 runs for the loss of seven wickets.
The format became a successful venture by late 1990s with World Championships being played in Pakistan, West Indies and also in the USA. A couple of championships between 1997 and 2003 featured some of the top cricketers across the globe. Pakistan was easily the most successful team in those competitions as the board allowed some of the big names to take part. The deductions on the loss of a wicket during these championships came down to three runs.
Winning pairs in some of the Double Wicket World Championships:
1997, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Aaqib Javed
1998, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Azhar Mahmood
2001, New Jersey – Wasim Akram and Shahid Afridi
2001, Lahore – Imran Nazir and Shoaib Malik
2003, St Lucia – Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori

3 Team Cricket made its debut on July 18 featuring South African players as part of the Solidarity Cup. The format introduced by Cricket South Africa (CSA) can be said as the most complex form of this sport. The sport has come up with limited-overs formats such as One-Dayers, Twenty20 and even T10 but the basis of Test match (or First-class) cricket was never tweaked. However, the 3TC isn’t the first experimentation that too while featuring some of the notable stars.
<h3>Here are four experimented forms of cricket which featured star players across the globe:</h3>
<h3>4. Hong Kong International Sixes:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429556" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429556" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429556" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Hong-Kong-International-Sixes.jpg" alt="Hong Kong International Sixes" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429556" class="wp-caption-text">Hong Kong International Sixes. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
The Cricket Sixes was a revolutionary format of the game adopted by Hong Kong and hosted a competition in 1992 featuring top nations along with the hosts. In this format, each team will be of six players and will get five overs in every match. The innings is deemed to be completed only after the restricted overs are finished or the 6th wicket of the innings falls. The last unbeaten batsman can play alone with the last dismissed batsman acting as a non-striker.
Every batsman reaching the individual score of 31 has to “retire hurt” and can only return once all the remaining batsman is back in the pavilion. The tournament was graced by many legendary players such as Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, Shane Warne and many more. Tendulkar featured in the 1995 edition where the Indian team was led by Mohammad Azharuddin.
The Indian team settled to Plate Championship despite a strong line-up by defeating West Indies in the Plate finale. The tournament was played between 1992 and 1997 years before resuming in 2001. Things went well until 2012 before the Hong Kong board couldn’t find proper sponsors. Since then, only one edition of the tournament took place – in 2017 which was won by South Africa.

<h3>3. Cricket Super Max:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429558" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429558" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429558" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cricket-Super-Max.jpg" alt="Cricket Super Max" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429558" class="wp-caption-text">Cricket Super Max. (Photo by Simon Baker/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
Cricket Super Max was a New Zealand domestic competition in the 1990s invented by their former skipper Martin Crowe. The format of Super Max is nothing but a Twenty20 game divided into multiple innings. The second innings would begin from the scratch just like in the longer format. No bowler is supposed to bowl more than four overs in the match but there is no limit regarding the division of the four overs into the two innings.
In addition to the norms, there will be a ‘Max Zone’ on the field which covers a trapezoid section down the ground on either sides. All the runs that come through the ball passing into that region would be doubled. This meant any player who hits a six through the max zone would be getting 12 runs and a four would turn into eight. This experiment was close to becoming an International format before Twenty20 took over.
The New Zealand national team, named as New Zealand Max Blacks, took on the International sides between 1997 and 2002. New Zealand and England faced off in a 3-match Super Max series in 1997 which the hosts won 2-1 coming from behind. The faced visiting West Indies team in 1999 and won it by a comfortably 5-wicket margin. Later in 2002, the Max Blacks took on the Indian team where they survived a scare from Sachin Tendulkar before closing in a 21-run win.
Sachin smashed 72 from only 27 balls with as many as 12 fours and a six. Two of those fours landed in max zone yielding eight extra runs while the lone six in his innings was apparently a ‘Twelve’ thanks to the max zone. The 72-run knock by Sachin remains as the highest individual score across the five Super Max International matches that took place. Tendulkar scored only five runs in the second essay but picked up five wickets in the four overs he bowled across the two innings.

<h3>2. Beach Cricket:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429566" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429566" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429566" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Beach-Cricket-tournament.jpg" alt="Beach Cricket tournament" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429566" class="wp-caption-text">Beach Cricket tournament. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
Between 2007 and 2009, Australia stood host for the Beach Cricket Tri-Nations featuring retired cricketers across the globe. England, West Indies, New Zealand and South Africa were the teams other than the Aussies who took part across the three editions. This competition was created and sponsored by Australia&#8217;s XXXX Gold beer brand. Allan Border, Graham Gooch, Sir Courtney Walsh, Martin Crowe and Shaun Pollock acted as captains for their respective nations in this Beach Cricket Tri-Nations.
Sir Curtly Ambrose, Denis Lillee, Sir Richard Hadlee, Graeme Hick, Sir Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Mark Waugh, Lance Klusener, Stephen Fleming and Dean Jones were some of the reputed names who featured in this competition. Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Maroubra Beach in Sydney, Scarborough Beach in Perth and Coolangatta Beach in Gold Coast were hosting venues for the three tournaments.
Talking about the rules, the matches will be 8 overs-a-side matches with each team consisting of six players. All the six players will bowl an over each and the players to bowl the final two overs will be decided by the captain. Similarly, the six players will be divided into three pairs and each of them will play two overs. The pair to play the last over will be decided by the skipper of the batting team. If a batsman gets out, the non-striker will take the charge and five runs will be deducted.
However, the batsman dismissed will continue to play until the pair’s quota of two overs gets completed. Graeme Hick held the highest individual score for his 81 in the 2008 competition. In the round 1 game against Australia, he scored 57 runs while batting with his partner Robin Smith and later scored 24 more runs. Later, during the 4th round match against New Zealand, Graeme Hick smashed six sixes in an over.
Summary of Beach Cricket Tri-Nation tournaments:
2007 – Winner: England, Runner-up: Australia, 3rd Place: West Indies
2008 – Winner: New Zealand, Runner-up: England, 3rd Place: Australia
2008 – Winner: South Africa, Runner-up: New Zealand, 3rd Place: Australia

<h3>1. Double Wicket Cricket:</h3>
<figure id="attachment_429565" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429565" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-429565" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Double-Wicket-Cricket.jpg" alt="Double Wicket Cricket" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-429565" class="wp-caption-text">Double Wicket Cricket. (Photo Source: YouTube)</figcaption></figure>
Double Wicket Cricket remains one of the most revolutionary forms of the game where a pair of two players will be considered as a team. Though the existence of the format dates back to early decades of the 18th century, this form of cricket began to be popularized in 1990 when star players of top nations played. A double wicket tournament sponsored by Pepsi was played in October in Mumbai.
India had two pairs taking part while the remaining six active Test playing countries let a pair of two top players. The league stage was of four overs aside while the semi-finals and the final saw an increase to six and eight overs respectively. The two players would be allowed until they get out ten times and each dismissal would cost five runs. The Indian pairs Kapil Dev-Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri-Mohammad Azharuddin reached the final of the tournament.
The 17-year-old Tendulkar was the star of the final as he scored 75 from 33 balls with six maximums and five fours despite getting out four times. Tendulkar and Kapil aggregated 95 runs for the loss of five wickets. This meant their final total was 70 after deductions. In reply, Azharuddin-Shastri pair made only 27 runs as they scored 62 runs for the loss of seven wickets.
The format became a successful venture by late 1990s with World Championships being played in Pakistan, West Indies and also in the USA. A couple of championships between 1997 and 2003 featured some of the top cricketers across the globe. Pakistan was easily the most successful team in those competitions as the board allowed some of the big names to take part. The deductions on the loss of a wicket during these championships came down to three runs.
Winning pairs in some of the Double Wicket World Championships:
1997, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Aaqib Javed
1998, Lahore – Shahid Afridi and Azhar Mahmood
2001, New Jersey – Wasim Akram and Shahid Afridi
2001, Lahore – Imran Nazir and Shoaib Malik
2003, St Lucia – Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori

Here are four experimented forms of cricket which featured star players across the globe.

4 Experimental cricket formats before 3TC to have featured star players

3 Team Cricket made its debut on Saturday featuring South African players as part of the Solidarity Cup. The format introduced by Cricket South Africa (CSA)