Sawasdee Cricket rules are substantially similar to conventional cricket, with the following variations:

• Each team comprises eight players, with age limits.
• Bats are lightweight wood or plastic.
• Balls are light compressed rubber.
• Stumps are plastic pipe, in a wooden base. There are no bails.
• The pitch measures 16 yards long.
• The boundary is generally 30 yards from pitch.
• The batting side bats and scores in pairs. Each pair faces two overs then retires.
• Each batting pair starts with a score of 50 runs.
• Each time a batsman is 'out', the score of the pair is reduced by five runs, and the batsman continues batting.
• Each player on the fielding side bowls one over.
• There is no penalty of "leg before wicket" (lbw).
• The penalty for wides and no-balls isnormally two runs, and no extra ball is bowled.
• There is normally only one umpire. He also keeps the score.