Chiang Mai Sixes announces another innovation for the short game -- a boundary 10 runs. This year Chiang Mai Sixes experiments with a 10. When a batter hits one of the "Big 10" advertising signs (placed around the boundary) with a ball on the fly,instead of the usual six, he will get 10 runs credited to his score and to his team's total.And it has a double benefit -- for every 10 scored in this way, the sponsor of the sign will donate 4000 Baht to the Chiang Mai Junior Cricket Programme.

Sixes and fours are in the classic tradition of the sport, and we're certainly keeping those. But in the short six-a-side game big scoring opportunities can add to the fast paced excitement. It's hoped this 10-run innovation will be good both for the Sixes competition and for the funding of junior cricket in Chiang Mai.

In match rule terms, the 10 will only be scored for a ball on the fly hitting one of the signs before touching the ground. It will be credited as runs off the bat. It will be added to the batsman's score in the normal way, and will not affect the requirement that batters must retire not out on reaching a personal score of 30 runs. (But now of course they could conceivably retire on 39 not out...) Goughie has already come up with the umpires signal for a ‘10’ -- two hands raised, open palms, all 10 fingers extended.