One-day International (odi) Cricket Betting

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17th June 2008, by Taylor Luk

One-day international cricket - sometimes referred to as limited overs cricket - is a comparatively modern development of the game. In essence the one-day game is a single-day, cut-down version of Test cricket that allows only one limited-overs innings for each team.

On the whole the rules of the game are the same as those for the long version of the game, however, there are a number of additional rules that assist in ensuring the fast-paced nature of the game is maintained. Paramount among these are limitations on the number of overs a bowler can bowl (currently 10) and restrictions on the placement of fielders. Inclement weather is also catered for through the use of a convoluted and controversial score approximation system named the Duckworth-Lewis Method.

So popular has the game become that a four-yearly World Cup is now a regular event on an already full calendar, as is a biannual one-day event named the Champions Trophy. More recently the nature of ODI cricket matches has been questioned leading to the creation of an even shorter version named Twenty20.

One-day International (odi) Cricket Betting - Where It Started

One-day international cricket is nearly 100 years younger than Test cricket, with the first ODI fixture taking place in 1971.
That first match saw Australia and England play a 40-overs-a-side game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground after rain washed out the first three days of the planned Test match. Australia won the game by five wickets but England batsman John Edrich collected the man-of-the-match prize as a result of his 82 runs, including four boundaries, off 119 balls.

In the late 1970s, the World Series Cricket competition sent the game into peoples living rooms and up to new heights when it introduced many of the current features of one-day cricket; coloured uniforms, night matches played with a white ball and darkened sight screens, multiple television camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics during television broadcasts.

One-day International (odi) Cricket Betting - Bet Types

Centrebet quotes One Day International (ODI) betting odds on all of the hundreds of one-day international cricket matches which occur every year. ODI games and competitions lend themselves beautifully to a host of betting opportunities including everything from the game result to which of the teams hits the most sixes. Batsman exotics (how will they score, how many and how will they be dismissed) are popular and ODI matches are perfect vehicles for live betting because it only takes one delivery to change the course of a match, particularly in the latter stages of the game's second innings.

One-day international cricket odds represent just a fraction of Centrebet's cricket betting product offering. Test Cricket betting receives the respect that it deserves, with Centrebet issuing prices every time that two of the ten Test-playing countries face off. Centrebet does not neglect domestic cricket competitions, either. You do not have to look too hard to find odds on such events as the County Championship, ING Cup and Pura Cup, as well as ICC Champions trophy odds, and a range of VB Series Cricket options.

One-day International (odi) Cricket Betting - The Championship Table

Since securing the one-day World Cup trophy in South Africa in 2003, current world champions, Australia have dominated the one-day international cricket rankings for the last few years. That said the one-day game is, in general, a more even contest that it's five-day cousin with even the lowly teams some chance of pulling off an upset on their day as evidenced by Bangladesh’s stunning defeat of the Australian's in 2005.

*As at 1 January 2007

One-day International (odi) Cricket Betting - Part Of A Bigger Range

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last update : 17th June 2008 17:11