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First game |
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England vs. Australia at Melbourne on January 5, 1971 |
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First ball faced |
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England's Geoffrey Boycott faced the first ever ball from Australia's Graham McKenzie at Melbourne on January 5,1971 |
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First ball bowled |
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Australia's Graham McKenzie bowled the first ever ball in ODIs to Geoffrey Boycott at Melbourne on January 5,1971 |
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First Toss won |
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Australia's captain Bill Lawry won the toss and chose to field first in the first ever ODI at MCG on January 5,1971. |
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First Ten-wicket triumph |
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India against East Africa in the 1975 World Cup at Headingley, Leeds. |
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First one-run win |
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New Zealand against Pakistan at Sialkot on October 16, 1976. This was the inaugural one-day international in Pakistan. Needing four runs from Richard Collinge's final ball, Wasim Bari was restricted to a two. |
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First fifty |
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England's John Edrich recorded 82 off 119 balls against Australia at MCG on January 5, 1971. |
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First fifty-plus partnership |
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England's Keith Fletcher and John Edrich were associated in a stand of 66 for the second wicket against Australia at MCG on January 5,1971. |
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First century |
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England's Dennis Amiss registered 102 against Australia at Old Trafford on August 24,1972.
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First to post two centuries |
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England's Dennis Amiss posted 102 against Australia at Old Trafford on August 24, 1972 and 100 against New Zealand at Swansea on July 18,1973.
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First bowler to claim a wicket |
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Australa's Jeff Thomson claimed the first wicket, his victim being Geoff Boycott at MCG on January 5,1971. |
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First batsman to be run-out |
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England's Basil D'Oliveira (17) against Australia at MCG on January 5, 1971. |
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First batsman to be stumped |
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Australia's Ian Chappell (60) was stumped by Allan Knott off Ray Illingworth at MCG on January 5,1971. |
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First ever win |
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Australia's triumph by five wickets against England at MCG on January 5,1971. |
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First century by an Indian |
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Kapil Dev (175 not out) against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells on June 18, 1983. |
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First hundred by an Indian in India |
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Ravi Shastri (102) against Australia at Indore on October 6,1984. |
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First batsman to be dismissed handled the ball |
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India's Mohinder Amarnath against Australia at Melbourne on February 9, 1986. |
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First batsman to be dismissed obstructing the field |
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Pakistan's Ramiz Raja against England at Karachi on November 20, 1987. |
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First batsman to be dismissed by the first ball of a match |
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England's Barry Wood off Andy Roberts (WI) at Scarborough in 1976. |
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First batsman to be dismissed for 99 |
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England's Geoff Boycott against Australia at The Oval on August 20, 1980. |
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First batsman to be dismissed for 99 three times |
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Sachin Tendulkar against South Africa at Belfast on June 26, 2007; against England at Bristol on August 24, 2007 and against Pakistan at Mohali on November 8, 2007.
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First batsman to remain unbeaten on 99 |
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New Zealand's Bruce Edgar against India at Auckland on February 14, 1981. |
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First batsman to hit six sixes off one over |
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Herschelle Gibbs (72 off 40 balls) is the only one to accomplish the feat off Daan van Bunge (Netherlands) at St.Kitts on March 16, 2007. |
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First batsman to register a hundred in hundredth match |
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Gordon Greenidge (West Indies) - 102 not out against Pakistan at Sharjah on October 18,1988. |
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First batsman to post a hundred on debut |
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England's Dennis Amiss against Australia at Manchester on August 24, 1972. |
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First player to be adjudged the Man of the Match |
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England's John Edrich by Charles Elliott. |
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First hundred partnership |
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Dennis Amiss and Keith Fletcher were associated in a stand of 125 in 86 minutes off 160 balls for the second wicket against Australia on August 24, 1972. |
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First to claim four-wicket analysis |
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Geoff Arnold (England) against Australia at Edgbaston, Birmingham on August 28, 1972 - 11-3-27-4. |
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First game to be staged on Sunday |
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New Zealand's inaugural Limited-Overs International against Pakistan at Lancaster Park, Christchurch on February 11, 1973.
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First No-Result game |
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Old Trafford, venue of the only two Test matches in England, to be abandoned without a ball bowled, staged the first ODI to enter the 'no-result' category. |
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First game to be won by the final pair of batsmen |
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England's pair, Bob Willis and Derek Underwood ensured one-wicket win against West Indies at Headingley, Leeds on September 5,1973. |
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First century by a wicketkeeper |
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Ken Wadsworth registered New Zealand's first century - 104 against Australia at Christchurch on March 31, 1974. |
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First ODI to involve play on a second day |
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England against India at The Oval on July 15 & 16,1974. Rain delayed the start until 1.30 P.M. and brought about a premature close at 5.49 P.M. with England 19 for 1 after 7 overs on the first day. |
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First to bat throughout an innings |
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England's David Lloyd (116 not out off 159 balls) against Pakistan at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on August 31, 1974. |
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First ODI in which two centuries were scored |
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David Lloyd (England) and Majid Khan (Pakistan) at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on August 31, 1974. |
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First innings of 150 or more |
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New Zealand's Glenn Turner made an unbeaten 171 against East Africa at Edgbaston, Birmingham on June 7, 1975. |
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First total of 300 |
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England made 334 for 4 off 60 overs against India in the inaugural World Cup game on June 7, 1975. |
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First five-wicket haul |
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Australia's Dennis Lillee claimed 5 for 34 in Pakistan's innings of 205 at Headingley, Leeds on June 7,1975. |
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First holder of the World Cup |
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West Indies defeated Australia by 17 runs at Lord's on June 21, 1975. |
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First instance of two bowlers claiming five wickets in the same innings |
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Australia's Greg Chappell (5/20) and Gary Cosier (5/18) against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham on June 4, 1977. |
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First instance of a captain calling his batsmen from the field |
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When 23 runs were needed from 14 balls with eight wickets in hand, Indian captain, Bishan Singh Bedi called his batsmen from the field in protest against the persistent short-pitched bowling of Sarfraz Nawaz, whose last four deliveries were all bouncers which had not been called wide. |
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First 200-plus partnership |
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West Indian pair, Vivian Richards and Desmond Haynes put on 205 runs for the second wicket against Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 9, 1979. |
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First instance of three different wicketkeepers representing a team in three ODIs in a series |
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Taslim Arif (Karachi), Ashraf Ali (Sialkot) and Wasim Bari (Lahore) against West Indies in November/December 1980. |
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First non-wicket-keeper to take four catches |
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New Zealand's substitute John Bracewell achieved the feat against Australia at Adelaide on November 23,1980. |
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First instance of bowling underarm |
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With six runs needed to tie the match against New Zealand at MCG on February 1, 1981, Australian captain, instructed his younger brother, Trevor to bowl the final ball underarm along the ground. Such tactics, condemned by New Zealand's Prime Minister, were subsequently banned. |
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First to hold five catches |
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Australian wicketkeeper, Rodney Marsh in England's innings of 165 at Headingley, Leeds on June 8, 1981. |
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First leg spinner to claim four wickets |
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Pakistan's Wasim Raja, an occasional bowler, captured 4 for 25 off seven overs against West Indies at Adelaide on December 5,1981. |
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First to appear in first four games without batting and bowling |
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West Indian, all-rounder, Gus Logie - against Pakistan at Perth, against Australia at Perth and Melbourne and against Pakistan at Sydney in the 1981-82 Benson and Hedges World series. |
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First home ODI staged by India |
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India staged its first home One Day International more than a decade after the inaugural match. |
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First limited-overs trophy for India |
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India's triumph by 2-1 against England in 1981-82 gave them their first One-day International trophy. |
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First instance of two generations of a family appearing in ODIs |
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Derek Pringle, son of Donald Pringle, who represented East Africa in the 1975 Prudential World Cup, appeared against Pakistan at Trent Bridge on July 17, 1982. |
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First batsman to post centuries in successive limited-overs inernationals |
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Sri Lanka's Roy Dias - 102 against India at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on September 15, 1982 and 121 at KSCA Stadium, Bangalore on September 26, 1982. |
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First hat-trick |
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Pakistan's speedster, Jalaluddin by dismissing Rodney Marsh, Bruce Yardley and Geoff Lawson with the last three balls of his seventh over, accomplished the feat - against Australia at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad on Septemebr 20, 1982. |
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First instance of two hundreds in an innings |
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Mohsin Khan (117 not out) and Zaheer Abbas (118) registered hundreds in Pakistan's total of 263 for two wickets off 40 overs against India at Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan on December 17, 1982. |
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First to post five hundreds |
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Zaheer Abbas, with his hundred (105 off 82 balls) against India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on December 31, 1982. became the first batsman to register five hundreds. |
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First to capture a wicket with his first ball in ODIs |
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Shahid Mahboob (Pakistan) was the first bowler to achieve the feat, his victim being India's Krish Srikkanth at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on December 31,1982. |
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First to post three centuries in successive innings |
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Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan). With his third hundred in as many innings against India at National Stadium, Karachi on January 21, 1983, Zaheer also beame the first to register six centuries in ODIs. |
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First to hit six sixes in an innings |
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New Zealand's Lance Cairns, during his innings of 52 off 25 balls, accomplished the feat against Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 13, 1983.
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First bowler to concede 100 runs in an innings |
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Martin Snedden (New Zealand) had figures of 12-1-105-2 against New Zealand at The Oval on June 9, 1983.
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First defeat suffered by World Champions |
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West Indies, the winners of the 1975 and 1979 Prudential World Cup, lost to India at Old Trafford, Manchester on June 9/10, 1983.
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First bowler to claim 100 wickets |
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Australia's Dennis Lillee achieved the feat against Zimbabwe at Nottingham on June 9, 1983.
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