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A night match at Old Trafford.
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A night match at Old Trafford.

One-day cricket is a version of the sport of cricket that is completed in one day, as distinct from Test cricket and first-class cricket which can take up to five days to complete.

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Structure

In a one-day cricket match, each team bats only once, and each innings is limited to a set number of overs, usually fifty in a One-day International and between forty and sixty in a List A domestic one-day match. Other changes to the game include additional restrictions on where fielders may be placed (preventing teams from placing every fielder on the edge of the field to prevent boundaries), a restriction on the number of overs that may be bowled by any one bowler and stricter rules on wide balls and short deliveries (to prevent teams from restricting scoring by bowling deliveries that batsmen have no chance to score from). In many games a white ball is used rather than the traditional red; the need to paint rather than stain the white ball gives it subtly different characteristics in flight as it wears.

One-day cricket is popular with spectators as it can encourage aggressive, risky, entertaining batting, often results in cliffhanger endings, and ensures that a spectator can watch an entire match without committing to five days of continuous attendance. However, many fans of Test match cricket regard it as ignoring the skills of bowlers, prone to random results not reflective of the relative skill of the teams, and with modern one-day tactics where batsmen take few risks outside the first and last few overs, lacking in the claimed excitement. Such criticisms have gained steam with the revitalisation, led by Australia, of Test matches.

Bowling restrictions

As mentioned above, in almost all competitive one-day games, a restriction is placed on the number of overs that may be bowled by any one bowler. This is to prevent a side playing two bowlers with extremely good stamina who can then bowl the entirety of their side's overs, thus skewing the composition of a side. The classical composition of a cricket team is five specialist batsmen, five specialist bowlers and a wicket-keeper: in order to maintain this, the usual limitation is set so that a side must include at least five bowlers. For example, the usual limit for twenty-over cricket is four overs per bowler, for forty-over cricket eight per bowler and for fifty-over cricket ten per bowler.

There is at least one notable exception to this convention. Pro Cricket in the United States restricts bowlers to five overs each, thus leaving a side requiring only four bowlers.

History

One-day cricket began between English county teams on May 2, 1962. Leicestershire beat Derbyshire and Northamptonshire beat Nottinghamshire over 65 overs in the "Midlands Knock-Out Cup", which Northamptonshire went on to win a week later. The following year, the first full-scale one-day competition between first-class teams was played, the knock-out Gillette Cup, won by Sussex. League one-day cricket also began in England, when the John Player Sunday League was started in 1969. Both these competitions have continued every season since inauguration, though the sponsorship has changed. The knock-out cup is now the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy. The league is not exclusive to Sundays.

The first One-day International (ODI) match was played in Melbourne in 1971, and the quadrennial cricket World Cup began in 1975. Many of the "packaging" innovations, such as coloured clothing, were as a result of World Series Cricket, a "rebel" series set up outside the cricketing establishment by Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer (Now deceased). For more details, see History of cricket.

Twenty20, a curtailed form of one-day cricket with 20 overs per side, was first played in England in 2003. It has proven very popular, and several Twenty20 matches have been played between national teams. It makes several changes to the usual laws of cricket, including the addition of a "bowl-out" (similar to a penalty shoot-out in football) to decide the result of tied matches.

One-day Internationals

One-day International matches are usually played in brightly coloured clothing (leading some to give it the unflattering nickname pyjama cricket), and often in a "day-night" format where the first innings of the day occurs in the afternoon and the second occurs under stadium lights.

One-day international tournaments occur in various forms:

Domestic one-day competitions

This section only concerns competitions with List A status, the one-day equivalent to first class cricket status for two-innings matches. Domestic one-day competitions exist in almost every country where cricket is played, but the List A status is determined by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, and usually only encompasses the countries with Test status.

Australia

The ING Cup. The sides that compete are the following: In 2006 Cricket Australia introduced the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash which is amongst the state teams (as above) and are divided into Pool A (Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria) and Pool B (Tasmania, Queensland and New South Wales) and a home and away format is played. Each team plays one home and one away game. The winner of each pool plays against each other to determine the champion.

Bangladesh

The National One-Day Cricket League is sponsored by Ispahani Mirzapore Tea. It currently runs from November to March, with each team playing the other home and away once in a round robin format. These six teams compete for the League title:

England

India

New Zealand

Pakistan

The Pakistani domestic competition changes regularly, but for 2005-06 there are plans for three one-day tournaments for men:

* Faisalabad Wolves
* Karachi Zebras
* Lahore Eagles
* Multan Tigers
* Peshawar Panthers
* Sialkot Stallions
* Rawalpindi Rams
* Abbottabad
* Hyderabad Hawks
* Islamabad
* Karachi Dolphins
* Lahore Eagles
* Quetta Bears
* Allied Bank Limited
* Pakistan Customs
* Habib Bank Limited
* Khan Research Laboratories
* National Bank of Pakistan
* Pakistan International Airlines
* Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
* Service Industries
* Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited
* Water and Power Development Authority
* Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited

South Africa

The local competition in South Africa is the Standard Bank Cup (Formerly Benson & Hedges Series Cricket) played between 6 Teams:

The games are 45-overs, and based on a home-and-away round-robin match system (Each team playing ten matches) with semi-finals and a final. The Eagles were the winners of the 2004/2005 Competition

Sri Lanka

20 teams compete in the Premier Limited-Overs Tournament, which is an expansion from 16 in the last season. Games are played over 50 overs per side, and the teams are divided into two groups, where each team meets the other once over a period of a month. The four top teams from each group qualify for the quarter-finals, and there is then a direct knock-out system until a winner is found after three knock-out stages. The competing teams are:

West Indies

The KFC Cup is the main regional one-day competition in the West Indies, named after its chief sponsor, the fast food chain KFC. In recent years, it has been run over a week's time as a group stage followed by knock-out stages. Guyana are the current holders, after they beat Barbados in the final, and they are also the team to have won it most, with nine titles, although two of them have been shared. Trinidad and Tobago are second in that history, having won seven titles.

In the 2005–06 edition of the KFC Cup, the six permanent first class regions of the West Indies contested the tournament:

Zimbabwe

With Zimbabwe Cricket, the organising body of the sport, in leadership turmoil and undergoing frequent player strikes, no schedule has been announced for the 2005-06 season. In the Inter-Provincial One-Day competition for 2004-05, however, five teams took part, including the separate country of Namibia. The five teams played each other once, and the winner of the round robin league won the competition. The competing teams were:

One-day Records

The record for most number of runs scored in a 50 over limited international match is 438/9 by South Africa against Australia on March 12, 2006. Incidentally Australia batting first scored an amazing 434/4 in 50 overs which eclipsed the previous standing record of 398, set by the Sri Lankans almost 10 years ago. South Africa tagged as "chokers" for buckling under pressure while chasing large totals, chased down this score successfully with 1 ball to spare.

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Forms of cricket
International: Test cricket | One-day cricket | Twenty20 | Indoor cricket | Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes | Women's cricket
Other types: French cricket | Beach cricket | First-class cricket | List A cricket | Club cricket | Kwik cricket | Catchy Shubby Cricket | Blind cricket | Kilikiti | Short form cricket | Gilli-danda

 

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