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A cricket pitch is 22 yards long
That is 20.12 metres from stump to stump, on a strip 3.05 metres wide The Laws of Cricket, owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club, fix the pitch at 22 yards between the stumps at each end and 10 feet wide. The popping crease is painted 1.22 metres in front of the stumps, and the bowling crease runs through the middle stump. Umpires check the markings before play. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A cricket pitch is 22 yards long: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- That is 20.12 metres from stump to stump, on a strip 3.05 metres wide. The figure is taken from Marylebone Cricket Club, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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