16 places
Air-conditioned cricket nets with a bowling machine, from AED 60 an hour.
Real grass outfields and practice nets open to the public, which is rare outside clubs.
An indoor artificial-grass ground big enough for 22 players, split into four nets or booked whole.
Two indoor pitches with safety nets and two 40m practice nets inside the DWTC halls every summer.
Indoor cricket pitches and batting nets on a Motor City rooftop, closer to home for southern suburbs than Al Quoz.
Two-lane nets you can book for just 30 minutes, plus four indoor match courts for a full game.
A floodlit box-cricket arena plus open-air nets, both bookable online.
Home of Al Ain Cricket Club, whose under-13 and under-16 players have been picked for Team Abu Dhabi: the place to play organised cricket in Al Ain.
The ICC's own academy: six indoor lanes split into spin, batting and pace pitches, plus outdoor nets and ovals.
A floodlit ground in Shahama that runs club tournaments and lets teams play well into the night, with changing rooms and showers.
Brighton College's ground, run by Sport Support Club, opens to outside teams on weekday evenings and all weekend.
Central, off Muroor Road opposite Mubadala, and at AED 390 an hour one of the cheaper cricket slots you can book on the island.
A grass outfield with bowling machines, adult coaching and courses for 9 to 16 year olds, plus space to park a team's worth of cars.
The emirate's home of cricket, where the Zayed Cricket Stadium and Tolerance Oval sit next to four ovals set aside for community games.
Practice nets in Musaffah's industrial belt that stay open from 6am to midnight, so you can bat before or after a shift.
Indoor cricket for the hot months, an oval with an artificial turf pitch and two batting nets, all bookable by the hour in one complex.