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The match "resulted in a victory for the Civil Service by three touches down to none, no goal being obtained by either side". [9] In the historic London v. Sheffield match played on March 31, 1866, "London" (a representative team from the Football Association) won by two goals and four touches down to nil. [10] The "touch down" lasted only one ...
In women's cricket matches played between the top 10 ranked teams – as announced by ICC – are given ODI status, as are matches played as a part of the ICC Women's World Cup or ICC Women's Championship. [1] [2] [3] ODIs consist of one innings per team, with a limit to the number of overs. This limit is currently 50 overs, although in the ...
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams that have international status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). [2] The first ODI match was played between Australia and England in 1971 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, as a 40-over match. An ODI can have four possible results ...
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
In competitions using two-legged matches, each team competes at home once, with an aggregate score from the two matches deciding which team progresses. Where aggregates are equal, the away goals rule may be used to determine the winners, in which case the winner is the team that scored the most goals in the leg they played away from home.
The final Test of the 1938 Ashes saw England defeat the tourists by an innings and 579 runs, to the draw the series at one match all. [31] West Indies biggest defeat came during the Wisden Trophy in 2007 when they lost by an innings and 283 runs at Headingley , Leeds .
The Crimson Tide have a less-than-perfect résumé — namely two “bad” losses to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. But everyone else in contention for that spot has a less-than-perfect résumé as well.
In cricket, a player is said to have scored a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match. An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match, a feat which is called "Twin centuries," is considered a "milestone" by critics.