I have used a variety of lenses at Australian cricket matches over a 2 year period and have found the best lens I have used is the Sigma 150-500mm. I have also used a Sigma 100-300mm zoom lens as mentioned in previous posts which gives a figure but it has to be cropped, unless you can photograph from the point position, then cropping is not as necessary or only minor.
You can see some photos on:
https://www.zonerama.com/RonsGaller
The Sigma 150-500mm lens gave the greatest scope for coverage, closeups showing full body shots to expansive shots showing Wicketkeeper through to the gully fieldsman. At the present I have been able to get reasonable photos Shutter 500 fps, aperture F11 even 13, ISO 1600 in good daylight conditions. For night photography under lights at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) I have used a Fuji Finepix S4900 30x optical zoom, this camera while only point and shoot gives a reasonable image, although some I am sure would disagree. I don't have any photos on the storage site of these matches but if you want to see I will load up. Even have photos of Australia v South Africa 50 over game November 2014. While some would poohoo a camera like this you will have no troubles getting it into the ground, tripods, 500mm lens you could be asked to “remove yourself copyright issues”. International matches in Australia max 200mm unless you have a press pass.