The evolution of one day cricket?

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When did it start? Like a few on here my first times of watching the 50 over game as a kid in the early 80s is 5 matches before a test series with the same side as it was going to be in the test matches. When did all this start to change? Was the 1983 England team more or less the test team, same with 1987? Also not just from a England perspective of course. Which countries were the first to adapt to what we see now in the modern format of the game
 


redandwhiterob said:
When did it start? Like a few on here my first times of watching the 50 over game as a kid in the early 80s is 5 matches before a test series with the same side as it was going to be in the test matches. When did all this start to change? Was the 1983 England team more or less the test team, same with 1987? Also not just from a England perspective of course. Which countries were the first to adapt to what we see now in the modern format of the game
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Sri Lanka with Jayasuriya opening? First time I remember an international team looking to score 300 and going aggressively from the start of the innings.
 
Proper 1 day cricket changed for good initially in 1977 via Packer and WSC and in 1983 when India won the World Cup, it ballooned in size, mainly in South Asia. Before then it was just the World Cup and 3 ODIs before the test series. After 1983, in particular, numerous tournaments appeared. Around 1992, teams began to pick specialist ODI players, at least in much greater numbers.
 
Ageing trundler said:
Proper 1 day cricket changed for good initially in 1977 via Packer and WSC and in 1983 when India won the World Cup, it ballooned in size, mainly in South Asia.
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Agree. Packer brought in the coloured clothing and the floodlight matches which brought in the crowds unlike the WSC Test matches.

Before India won it in 83 they were absolutely hopeless and I can still remember Gavasker batting 60 overs for something like 36no in 1975 because he thought England's total of 334 was impossible to get.:eek:

Naturally when India won this forced Pakistan,who in the first WC seemed to treat it as one big joke, to up their game as well.
 
I think the advent of T20 has made a huge difference to the mentality of the 50 over game and taken it to another level again.

It is a great game to watch these days and made maiden overs an achievement :lol:
 
there used to be series in Australia with England, west indies and Australia A team

when we won in 85/86 we got the ashes and 2 odi series
 
As people have said it was Kerry Packer who changed the face of cricket and I'm sure it was Gooch who told us that his very first cricket helmet was a modified motor bike helmet.

the cricket world cup has hardly got going, even now, and I can see the version in say 20 years time being a world away from this one - which BTW has been brilliant.
 
redandwhiterob said:
When did it start? Like a few on here my first times of watching the 50 over game as a kid in the early 80s is 5 matches before a test series with the same side as it was going to be in the test matches. When did all this start to change? Was the 1983 England team more or less the test team, same with 1987? Also not just from a England perspective of course. Which countries were the first to adapt to what we see now in the modern format of the game
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I remember watching the one day finals at Lords in the early to mid 70's. They were on the BBC and I think they were 60 overs back then and people thought 180-200 was a massive score. It was a different game completely.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
I remember watching the one day finals at Lords in the early to mid 70's. They were on the BBC and I think they were 60 overs back then and people thought 180-200 was a massive score. It was a different game completely.
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The amount of cricket on the BBC was unbelievable considering there were only two channels. You had every day of every home test, plus a knockout round of the B&H or Gillette cup most Wednesdays, both finals, all of the ODIs when they started and a JP league game every Sunday. I always feel Durham just missed out when the county game was really massive.
 
tynevalleyblackcat said:
I remember watching the one day finals at Lords in the early to mid 70's. They were on the BBC and I think they were 60 overs back then and people thought 180-200 was a massive score. It was a different game completely.
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Played in front of sell out crowds as well.

TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
The amount of cricket on the BBC was unbelievable considering there were only two channels. You had every day of every home test, plus a knockout round of the B&H or Gillette cup most Wednesdays, both finals, all of the ODIs when they started and a JP league game every Sunday. I always feel Durham just missed out when the county game was really massive.
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Durham appeared on the BBC in 1973 with their Gillette Cup home tie against Essex at Ropery Lane after we had defeated Yorkshire in the previous round.

1973 was a damned good year!!:lol::lol:
 
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I have to say although there has been some big scores in this world cup, I have enjoyed the games with lower scores and difficult pitches probably more than the smashing the ball everywhere games.

Take the semi finals, the opening spells of new Zealand and England were captivating, tense cricket.

Saying that I hope England smash 500 for 2 and bowl new Zealand out for 50 tomorrow
 
chunksafc said:
I have to say although there has been some big scores in this world cup, I have enjoyed the games with lower scores and difficult pitches probably more than the smashing the ball everywhere games.

Take the semi finals, the opening spells of new Zealand and England were captivating, tense cricket.

Saying that I hope England smash 500 for 2 and bowl new Zealand out for 50 tomorrow
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:lol::lol: I can live with 20 odd sixes in an innings in between a maiden ball or two
 
Remember coming down to my Nanas for the weekend and the Gillette cup final was on

I’m sure it was ken Higgs who got a hat trick

Must have been early to mid 70s? Leicester v someone?
 
The Red Telephone said:
It seemed that everytime Leics were on BBC2 John Player League Ken Higgs' bowling figures would be something like 8-4-10-3.:D
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The one thing I remember about Ken Higgs was when he went out to bat with Ray Illingworth when Leicester were 49/9, and they added 228 for the last wicket, still a county record. I don't know how many he got.

The Red Telephone said:
Durham appeared on the BBC in 1973 with their Gillette Cup home tie against Essex at Ropery Lane after we had defeated Yorkshire in the previous round.

1973 was a damned good year!!:lol::lol:
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Yorkshire was feeling from a Co. Durham double whammy that summer, although I bet the bookies in Leeds enjoyed it.

*reeling
 
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TwasOnTheFifthOfMay said:
The amount of cricket on the BBC was unbelievable considering there were only two channels. You had every day of every home test, plus a knockout round of the B&H or Gillette cup most Wednesdays, both finals, all of the ODIs when they started and a JP league game every Sunday. I always feel Durham just missed out when the county game was really massive.
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Remember that at that time, if there was no Cricket on then the channels just closed down after lunch and started again at tea time during the week, so they did not have to reschedule anything else to show the cricket a lot of the time. I used to love watching the Sunday county matches.
 
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