One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of 50 overs limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 7 hours.^[1]^[2] The Cricket World Cup, generally held every four years, is played in this format. One Day International matches are also called Limited Overs Internationals (LOI), although this generic term may also refer to Twenty20 International matches. They are major matches and considered the highest standard of List A, limited-overs competition.

ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings v t e
Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	India	42	5,117	122
2	Australia	34	3,936	116
3	South Africa	30	3,357	112
4	Pakistan	26	2,762	106
5	New Zealand	33	3,349	101
6	England	28	2,672	95
7	Sri Lanka	47	4,363	93
8	Bangladesh	40	3,453	86
9	Afghanistan	31	2,477	80
10	West Indies	32	2,205	69
11	Ireland	22	1,091	50
12	Zimbabwe	25	1,181	49
13	Scotland	25	1,207	48
14	Netherlands	34	1,482	44
15	Canada	9	320	36
16	Namibia	20	711	36
17	Nepal	35	1,095	31
18	Oman	21	509	24
19	United States	20	410	21
20	United Arab Emirates	30	345	12
Reference: ICC ODI rankings, Last updated 2 May 2024
Matches is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that. See points calculations for more details.

The international one-day game is a late-twentieth-century development. The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[3] When the first three days of the third Test were washed out officials decided to abandon the match and, instead, play a one-off one day game consisting of 40 eight-ball overs per side. Australia won the game by 5 wickets. ODIs were played in white-coloured kits with a red-coloured ball.^[4]

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics. The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979. This led not only to Packer's Channel 9 getting the TV rights to cricket in Australia but also led to players worldwide being paid to play, and becoming international professionals, no longer needing jobs outside cricket. Matches played with coloured kits and a white ball became more commonplace over time, and the use of white flannels and a red ball in ODIs ended in 2001.

The ICC, international cricket's governing body, maintains the ICC ODI Rankings for teams (see table on the right), batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders.

^ Gandhi, Anshul (15 June 2017). "5 changes to ODI cricket rules over the years". www.sportskeeda.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
^ "Beginners guide to the World Cup". cricket.com.au. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Anthony Bateman; Jeffrey Hill (17 March 2011). The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-521-76129-1.
^ England in India 2011–12: MS Dhoni says it will be tricky adjusting to the new playing conditions | Cricket News | India v England Archived 16 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved on 23 December 2013.

[1] Gandhi, Anshul (15 June 2017). "5 changes to ODI cricket rules over the years". www.sportskeeda.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

[2] "Beginners guide to the World Cup". cricket.com.au. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[BatemanHill2011-3] Anthony Bateman; Jeffrey Hill (17 March 2011). The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-521-76129-1.

[4] England in India 2011–12: MS Dhoni says it will be tricky adjusting to the new playing conditions | Cricket News | India v England Archived 16 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved on 23 December 2013.

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