Chiang Mai Sixes
'The world's most famous Sixes tournament' - CricInfo
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The Chiang Mai Sixes Mission
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The Chiang Mai Sixes main mission is 'making friends through the sport of cricket', and the social side of the tournament is treated with the same enthusiasm as the cricket. Teams come from all over the world (the 2009 tournament sees 13 countries represented) and the atmosphere at the competition is friendly with an enormous amount of socialising!
Despite carousing to the early hours of the morning the standard of cricket is often extremely good. Sixes cricket demands good tight bowling and explosive batting making it an extremely entertaining game to watch.
The Chiang Mai Sixes also has a charitable side raising large amounts of money each year for the development of cricket among Chiang Mai schools. The tournament has been the major supporter of the Chiang Mai Schools Cricket Alliance (CMSCA) which was formed in 2000 and has developed the game in a number of local schools to great effect. A number of local school cricketers have gone on to represent Thailand at a national level and in 2007 a young Thai team, Thai Thevada, played in the main Sixes tournament for the first time aquitting themselves very creditably and taking some impressive scalps.
The Rules of Sixes Cricket
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The main rules of cricket all apply to Sixes play but with some modification to insure a fast and furious game.
Each team fields just six players.
Each innings is just five overs long
Each member of the fielding team with the exception of the wicketkeeper must bowl an over.
Batsmen must retire after passing 30 runs.
Wides are heavily penalised by runs rather than an extra ball.
Sixes cricket is characterised by big hitting and is highly entertaining to watch especially when accompanied by a few beers.
Tuskers at the Chiang Mai Sives
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Tuskers is proud to be associated with the Chiang Mai Sixes as one of the tournament sponsors. We advertise on perimeter hoardings and in the Sixes program. Part of our sponsorship is as one of the destinations on the pub crawl promotion. As part of our sponsorship we have a number of special events during Sixes week.
Tuskers also has a presence on the field through our teams, the Stuffed Beavers Cricket Club and the Sa Pa Cricket Club bot of whom use Tuskers as their official Clubhouse.