One day Cricket (ODI's)

Introduction

As this type of cricket has limited number of overs and each team is to bowl limited overs in a limited period of time, so it is also known as 'Limited Overs International (LOI)'. In this type of cricket, there are 50 overs to be bowled in 3 hours and 30 minutes and it makes a match of total 7 hours without intervals. Hence, it becomes a One-Day Cricket, and it is more popular among the people as it takes less time to give the result.

Important one-day matches, international and domestic, often have two days set aside, the second day being a "reserve" day to allow more chance of the game being completed if a result is not possible on the first day (if play is prevented or interrupted by rain) and it is not necessary that every ODI's has reserve day, as it is being decided before the match (or series) whether to apply it or not.

History

The international one-day game is a late twentieth-century development. The first ODI was played on January 05, 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. When the first three days of the third Test were washed out officials decided to abandon the match and, instead, play a one-off one day game consisting of 40 eight-ball overs per side. Australia won the game by 5 wickets.

"Kery Pecker Series"--A New Drama in ODI's History

A big controversy was held for the first time in the history of cricket when an Australian, Kery Pecker organized a Series with totally a new concept, and in the beginning most of the boards and officials along with players denied this but it become a fate of this form of cricket.
In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket (WSC) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics. The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the Australians in wattle gold versus West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979. It was credited with making cricket a more professional sport.

ODI's Playing Nations

The ten Test-playing nations (which are also the ten full members of the ICC) have permanent ODI status. The nations are listed below with the date of each nation's ODI debut shown in brackets:

1. Australia on January 05, 1971


2. England on January 05, 1971


3. New Zealand on February 11, 1973


4. Pakistan on February 11, 1973


5. West Indies on September 05, 1973


6. India on July 13, 1974


7. Sri Lanka on June 07, 1975


8. Zimbabwe on June 09, 1983


9. Bangladesh on 31 March 31, 1986


10. South Africa on November 10, 1991

The ICC temporarily grants ODI status to other teams; at present these are:

1. Kenya (from 18 February 1996, until the 2009 ICC Trophy)


2. Bermuda (from 1 January 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy)


3. Canada (from 1 January 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy)


4. Ireland (from 1 January 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy)


5. Netherlands (from 1 January 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy)


6. Scotland (from 1 January 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy)