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What are the main differences between Test cricket and ODI cricket?

Question #109114. Asked by sal786.
Last updated Jun 01 2021.

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One key difference between ODI’s and Tests is that in ODI cricket there are both day and day/night games. It is pretty much universally agreed that it is an advantage to bat first in a day/night game. Quite simply, the lighting is worse, especially at the beginning of the second innings when there are shadows and the like. This is a well-known effect in baseball so I would expect to see it in cricket as well.

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Response last updated by zorba_scank on Aug 23 2016.
Sep 24 2009, 9:04 AM
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The main differences are:

a) An ODI match, being a One Day International, begins and ends on the same day; a Test match takes a maximum of 5 days.
b) An ODI match has one innings per team, usually of 50 overs; a Test match has two innings per team with no fixed number of overs.
c) In an ODI match there are fielding restrictions in force at certain periods of each innings ("Power Play"); there are no fielding restrictions in a Test match.
d) For an ODI match the teams dress in coloured strip; in a Test match both teams dress in whites.
e) In an ODI match the ball is white and the wicket coloured; in a Test match the ball is red and the wicket white.

link https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-sports-analytics/jsa191

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jun 01 2021.
Sep 24 2009, 12:24 PM
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