Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia, formerly the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in Australia.

Cricket Australia operates the Australian cricket team, organising Test tours and one-day internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in Australia, including the Pura Cup first-class competition and the domestic one-day competition.

Cricket Australia is in charge of regional development of cricket in the Pacific region, under the International Cricket Council's development program.

Pura Cup

The Pura Cup is Australia's domestic first-class competition. It includes six teams:

• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria (Australia)
• Western Australia

The teams play a round-robin series of home and away matches against every other team, followed by a final.