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The order of batters is normally introduced simply before the match, but it may be various. Forms of cricket range from Twenty20, with every team batting for a single innings of 20 overs and the sport generally lasting three hours, to Test matches played over five days. Traditionally cricketers play in all-white equipment, however in restricted overs cricket they wear membership or group colours. For instance, a group that passes its opponents' total having lost six wickets (i.e., six of their batters have been dismissed) have received the match "by 4 wickets". According to the social historian Derek Birley, there was a "great upsurge of sport after the Restoration" in 1660. Several members of the court of King Charles II took a strong curiosity in cricket during that period. Gambling on sport became a problem important sufficient for Parliament to cross the 1664 Gambling Act, limiting stakes to £100 which was, in any case, a colossal sum exceeding the annua