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Australia's Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie while observed by keeper Rod Marsh and non-striker Bruce Edgar. The underarm bowling incident of 1981 is a sporting controversy that took place on 1 February 1981, when Australia played New Zealand in a One Day International cricket match, the third in the best-of-five final of the 1980–81 World Series Cup, at the ...
Test Cricket is the longest format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the “ultimate test” of a cricketer’s skill, endurance, and temperament. It is a format of international cricket where two teams in white clothing, each representing a country, compete over a match ...
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
Donald Bradman, holder of several Test batting records including highest batting average. Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test cricket. Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. George Lohmann, the holder of best bowling average in Test cricket. Test cricket is played between international ...
Steve Smith (cricketer) Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team in all three formats of the game. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Test batsmen since Don Bradman. [ 4] Smith was a member of the Australian teams that won the 2015 and ...
2023 Ashes series. The 2023 Ashes series, branded as the LV= Insurance Men's Ashes Series for sponsorship reasons, [1] was a series of Test cricket matches played between England and Australia for the Ashes in June and July 2023. [2] The five-match series was a part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship, [3] the venues being Edgbaston ...
Twenty20 ( T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. [ 1] In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of twenty overs. Together with first-class and List A ...
The result in a game of cricket may be a "win" for one of the two teams playing, or a "tie". In the case of a limited overs game, the game can also end with "no result" if the game can't be finished on time (usually due to weather or bad light), and in other forms of cricket, a "draw" may be possible. Which of these results applies, and how the ...