Some Basic Facts of One-day Cricket
Unlike test match and domestic first-class cricket, one-day cricket match is completed in a single day. That is why the one day cricket match ends with a result declared in a single day and it is very rare instance that you get a tied result.
One-day cricket was first played between English County teams during 1960's and the quadrennial Cricket World Cup started during 1975 and the first one-day international cricket match was played in Melbourne, Australia, during 1971.
World Series Cricket was a revolutionary series system outside the cricketing organization by Australian media industrialist Kerry Packer and better known as the Packer Circus in the cricketing world.
It was the World Series cricket that introduced several covering innovations like colored clothing for the participants in one-day cricket and day-night matches.
One-day cricket match is known and loved all over the world. It has been able to attract a lot of spectators because of the fact that it involves insistent, risky and amusing batting that frequently results in cliffhanger endings. Besides, it ensures that a viewer could go and see a complete match without having to dedicate five long days for watching a match that is regularly subject to unpleasant weather conditions. Also, one-day cricket manages to attract even those who usually find five days of test match cricket extremely boring. One-day cricket is also known as limited-over cricket match.
An interesting fact is that one-day cricket is also sometimes referred to by cricket puzzle as hit and giggle or pyjama cricket. It is called so as the term relates to the colored clothing or uniforms worn by the players.
In this game, every team gets to bat only once and the innings are restricted to a set number of overs, usually fifty. Moreover, there are some restrictions on where fielders might be located and also a strict regulation on wide balls and short deliveries to make the game much more interesting.