New Delhi: Cricket, a popular game around the world, rules over everyone’s heart. It is a game that is played in almost every country. There are crores of fans of this game. The history of cricket is also very old. There are three formats of cricket at the international level – Test, ODI, also known as ODI cricket, and T20 cricket.
In such a situation, do you know that today is the birthday of ODI format of cricket. Today ODI turns 51 years old. Meaning that on this day, on 5 January 1971, the first international ODI match was played.
Do you know that the first ODI match was played between which two countries? When was it played? Where was it played and who was the winner of the match? So let us answer all your questions today through this article. Along with this, today we also tell you some interesting things related to it.
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Between which teams was the first International ODI held?
The world’s first international ODI match was played on 5 January 1971 between England and Australia. This match was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia’s historic ground. In today’s time, you know that the ODI match is of 50 overs, but let us tell you that, when this cricket format was started, the International ODI match used to be of 40-40 overs. Also 1 over used to be of 8 balls.
Who was the winner of the first ODI?
In the first International ODI, Australia won the toss and decided to field first. Australia’s captain at that time was Bill Lawrie. In such a situation, batting first, England team scored 190 runs in 40 overs. In response to which the Northern Australia team achieved this target with 42 balls remaining at Madana. It is to be known that John Edrich of England won the first man of the match title in ODI history. John Edrich scored the highest 82 runs for England. However, the winner of this match was Australia.
Some kind of history of ODIs
Actually, the England team was on a tour of Australia in November 1970 to play the Ashes series. There were to be 7 matches in this series. The first and second test matches of the series were drawn. Between 31 December 1970 and 5 January 1971, the third match was to be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but at that time the match could not start due to rain.
In today’s time Test match is of 5 days, but at that time it used to be of days. One of which was ‘Rest Day’. When the rain stopped on the last day of this test, both the teams got ready for limited overs cricket and thus a new format of cricket was created. Which was named ODI/ODI match. In today’s time people like ODI format very much.