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A cricket pitch is 22 yards long, but the whole field is not

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A cricket pitch is 22 yards long, but the whole field is not

The cricket pitch is a rectangular area 22 yards long and 10 feet wide. Those measurements describe the central pitch, not the much larger playing field bounded by the boundary.

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