A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the province’s largest and oldest cricket association to drop a rule that prevents players in a newer league with shorter matches from playing in both.

The operator of Last Man Stands, which has two-hour games that are designed to be faster-paced than a traditional daylong match, asked the court to intervene in the dispute with the B.C. Mainland Cricket Association.

The association runs the B.C. Mainland Cricket League, which has been around for 100 years and has 30 clubs and 105 teams. The court heard that makes the league the oldest and largest in North America.

Last Man Stands is an international amateur league with headquarters in the U.K., South Africa, Dhaka and India, with 260,000 members worldwide, including Canada.

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