Substitute stumps
Na Dra: A game of backyard cricket, all the way from Trinidad & Tobago
Aafaq ur Rehman: Scenes from the Ulsan International Volunteer Organization festival in South Korea where students from Pakistan and Bangladesh at University of Ulsan started playing cricket, piquing the interest of others, who joined in
Kaustubh Barve: On a short summer trip with friends, playing box cricket using empty liquor bottles for stumps near the Alibaug beach, India
Ali Asgar Babuji: No middle stump, no problem
Mark Papendieck: Does it swing a lot in Southern Highlands, New South Wales? This young batsman stands outside the crease as she readies to face the ball
Ritam Mitra: The quintessential Australian summer image - cricket on the streets of Sydney
Sujith Pottem: Hope the bails don't have to come off for a batsman to be bowled in this game at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia
Tanjim Ahmed: Cricket in the campus of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka
Qaisar : Street cricket in Saudi Arabia
Alfanso Jerry Simon: Children playing cricket in their backyard in Liberta, Antigua. Like Viv Richards, Dij (batting) can really whack it across the line. And, as you can see, he put every fibre of his into this shot. The ball was dispatched over the midwicket fence, into the neighbour's yard
Kaushal Adhikari: Do not litter. This picture was taken during the time of Dashain - Nepal's largest and most popular festival. Schools remain closed for nearly a month during this time of the year, and children enjoy their time playing cricket during these holidays. Given the lack of open space in the capital city of Kathmandu, children make use of any available space, and trash cans double up as wickets - anything to pursue their passion
Romel Bishop: This photo was taken at Bath, St.John, Barbados during a picnic in March 2013. Amateur cricketers are known to be quite innovative in finding substitutes for cricketing gear. Here, the group placed a barrel behind the batsman since they didn't have stumps. A pretty huge barrel at that, tilting the scales in the bowler's favour.
Kodakandla Rashwanth Reddy: No cricket ground and no stumps? No problem for us. We've made our home into a ground, and our mattress into the stumps
Anoop Asranna: In Mumbai's gullies, where cricket is the only escape. For those few minutes, wielding that magical piece of willow, everyone is a Sachin
Kamal Khan: Sunday evening cricket in Gilgit, a valley located in the mountainous Karakoram range of Pakistan
Harish Kumar: Invited a few German and Czech trekkers to a game of gully cricket in the Himalayas at an altitude 3700 metres
Faizan Ahmad: Aim for the top of off-crate. Youngsters playing cricket at a busy street in Lahore on a Sunday morning isn't unusual. But their usage of crates in place of stumps, is
Hassan Kausar: Can he bag a wicket? An impromptu game between my son, who is bowling, and a kid who joined us on Bamburgh beach outside Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England. My camera bag was used as a wicket
Mandeep Khanal: A scene from a monastery in Sindhupalchowk Nepal where boys can be seen playing cricket with a hand-made bat and using bricks as stumps
Samir Patel: They may be playing on a street in New Jersey but that crack in the pitch looks straight out of the WACA in Perth
Andrew Quinn: Slightly overcast October day on a beach in Co Donegal, Ireland. Note the marked cease to help with runout decisions
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