(This article is about the internationally recognised version of indoor cricket. For the variant of the game played exclusively in the United Kingdom, see Indoor cricket (UK variant).) Indoor cricket is a variant of and shares many basic concepts with cricket. The game is most often played between two teams each consisting of six or eight players. Several versions of the game have been in existence since the late 1960s, whilst the game in its present form began to take shape in the late 1970s and early 1980s.