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Herschelle Gibbs, the Player of the Match of the first ever game where a team scored 400.. This is a list of scores of 400 or more runs made by a team in a One Day International (ODI), a form of one-day cricket played between international cricket teams who are Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as the top six Associate and Affiliate members. [1]
Initially, the tour included only one ODI match. [8] Later, the schedule was revised by SLC to include two ODI matches. [9] [10] The Test matches were played at the Galle International Stadium in Galle, [11] and Australia won the series 2-0. The ODI matches were played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, [12] and Sri Lanka won the series 2-0.
In the first ODI match John Edrich of England scored the first half century. He scored 82 runs which remained the highest individual score for that match. [7] Dennis Amiss of England scored the first century in the second ever ODI in the following year. He scored 103 runs against Australia at Old Trafford Cricket Ground on 24 August 1972. [8]
It was the first time that Sri Lanka had beaten Australia by an innings in a Test match. [20] Dinesh Chandimal scored his first double century in a Test match with 206 not out, [21] and Prabath Jayasuriya took the best bowling figures for a Sri Lanka player on debut, with 12 for 177. [22]
The first World Cup match involving a tie was the second semi-final of the 1999 tournament when Australia played South Africa. Since then, at least one match was tied in the subsequent tournaments, with the exception of the 2015 edition, until the 2019 World Cup.
A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912.
Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the only cricketer to have taken three ODI hat-tricks. A hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets on consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 50 occurrences in 4546 matches since the first ODI match between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The ...
Australia scored the highest ever team total in ODIs (434); surpassing Sri Lanka's total of 398 in 1996; before South Africa surpassed it in the same match (438). [Later Surpassed] South Africa chasing 434 was the highest successful ODI chase of all time and the highest team total in the second innings in ODIs.