One-day International

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A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. Unlike its counterpart, Test cricket, which is played over 5 days, and has a history going back to the 19th century, the one-day game is a modern development in cricket.

The first ODI was played on 5 January 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 play a one-off one day game consisting of 40 overs per side. Australia won the game by 5 wickets.

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Rules

Most of the rules are common for both Test cricket and ODIs. However, in ODIs, each team gets to bat only a fixed number of overs. In the early days of ODI cricket, the number of overs was generally 60 overs per side but now it has been uniformly fixed at 50 overs.

Simply stated the game works as follows:

  • An ODI is contested by 2 teams of 11 players each.
  • The Captain of the side winning the toss chooses to either bat or bowl (field) first.
  • The team batting first sets the target score in a single innings. The innings lasts until the batting side is "all out" (i.e., 10 of the 11 batting players are "out") or all of the first side's alloted overs are used up.
  • The team batting second tries to score more than the target score in order to win the match. Similarly, the side bowling second tries to bowl out the second team for less than the target score in order to win.
  • If the number of runs scored by both teams are equal when the second team loses all of its wickets or exhausts all its overs, then the game is declared as a 'tie' (regardless of the number of wickets lost by either team).

Where a number of overs are lost, for example, due to inclement weather conditions, then the number of overs may be reduced. Where the number of overs available for the team batting second is perforce different from the number of overs faced by the team that batted first, the result may be determined by the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Teams with ODI status

The following teams have ODI status. This means that any match between them played under standard one-day rules is classified as an ODI. All these teams are also Test-playing nations with the exception of Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, the Netherlands and Scotland:

The ICC have recently ended the practice of granting nations permanent ODI status without having Test status. This was originally introduced to allow the best Associate Members to gain regular experience in internationals before making the step up to Full Membership. Bangladesh were the first, followed by Kenya. Bangladesh have since made the step up, but their poor performances have caused the ICC to think again in regards to Kenya. As a consequence, Kenya will lose its automatic ODI status in 2009. The top five teams from the 2005 ICC Trophy, in addition to qualifying for the 2007 World Cup, will be granted ODI status for the period from January 1 2006 until the 2009 ICC Trophy. At the 2009 Trophy, these five, plus Kenya, will probably then have to qualify by finishing in the top six in the tournament to regain this status, although a decision on this qualification method is yet to be reached.

The International Cricket Council ("ICC") designates all one-day matches in certain international tournaments to be ODIs. The following teams have played at least one ODI:

Finally, the ICC has given ODI status to several matches involving supra-national teams. The first of these were the two ICC XI vs Asian XI games intended to be played as part of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal in aid of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami relief effort to be ODIs. In the end, only one of the planned matches was actually played. Supra-national teams with ODI status appear to be here to stay, though, with series such as the ICC Super-Series and the Afro-Asian Cup. The inaugral Afro-Asian Cup between an African XI and an Asian XI is scheduled to begin on 2005-08-17 in South Africa and is planned to be an annual event. It is intended that the ICC Super Series will be played every four years between the team at the top of the ICC ODI rankings and a World XI. Australia have qualified to play in the first of these encounters, which will take place in Melbourne in October 2005.

Players who have played for more than one team

As there are residency and/or nationality requirements that need to be met to represent a team at international level, usually a player will only represent one team in ODIs in his career. A small number of players have, however, played for more than one team. These include:

  • Clayton Lambert (West Indies and United States of America)
  • Kepler Wessels (Australia and South Africa) Tests and One Day Internationals
  • John Traicos (South Africa and Zimbabwe) Tests and One Day Internationals

Additionally, although Gavin Hamilton has only played ODIs for Scotland, he did represent England in one test match.

As a result of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal match, and the World XVI Tour in Australia in October 2005 being given ODI status, many players, including the following have also played for more than one ODI side:

See also

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