One day international
A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country.
This a fairly recent development, considering that Test cricket has been played since the 19th century.
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.
Most of the rules are common for both Test cricket and One-Day International cricket. 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).
- The team batting first sets the target score in a single innings. The innings lasts until the batting side is "all out" (i.e., usually, 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'.
Where a number of overs are lost, for example, due to inclement weather conditions, then the number of over 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.
Ranking of teams
ODI rankings, matches taken into account since the Cricket World Cup 2003.
See also
