| One-day
cricket differs significantly from first class cricket. A
one- day match is played on a single day. Either a red or
a white cricket ball may be used, and play under artificial
lighting is allowed.
Each team gets only one innings, and that
innings is restricted to a maximum number of overs. Usual
choices for the number of overs are 50, 55, or 60. Each innings
is complete at the end of the stipulated number of overs,
no matter how many batsmen are out. If ten batsmen are out
before the full number of overs are bowled, the innings is
also over.
If the first team's innings ends in this manner,
the second team still has its full number of overs to score
the required runs. The timing of the innings and the break
between them are not regulated.
Whichever team scores the most runs wins.
A tied score stands. There is no draw result. If the match
is washed out, so that the innings are not played, the game
is declared a no-result.
In each innings, each bowler is restricted
to bowling a maximum number of overs equal to one fifth of
the total number of overs in the innings. Either a single
new ball is used for each innings, or two new balls which
are alternated between overs. (This is often done with white
balls because they wear much faster than red balls.)
New balls are never taken during an innings,
but replacements for lost or damaged balls are taken as in
first class matches.
In case of rain interruption to the first
innings, the number of overs for each innings is recalculated
so that they will be the same. If rain interrupts the second
innings, making it impossible for an equal number of overs
to be bowled, the number of runs scored by the first team
is adjusted to compensate.
There is no standard adjustment formula -
one is decided beforehand for any given competition. There
is also a predetermined number of overs which must be bowled
in each innings for any result to be considered valid; if
this limit is not reached the game is a no-result.
Because of the emphasis on scoring runs quickly,
wide balls are enforced much more strictly in one-day cricket.
One-day competitions are played either as
Series between pairs of international teams, round-robin competitions
between groups of international teams, or round-robins between
domestic teams. A World Cup one-day competition is played
between all the Test nations each four years.
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