Team India Played first ODI match exactly 46 years ago on this day

Team India Played first ODI match 46 years ago

First ODI Match of Team India: The Indian team started their ODI International cricket in 1974 on this day. Just 46 years ago, the Indian team played their first ODI against the hosts on England's ground. A year later, the Indian team also participated in the first ODI World Cup, but the Indian team did not get much success in this format in the beginning.

Anyway, international ODI cricket started only a few years ago. This start was also forced, as the Test match between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 1971 was washed away due to rain, due to which the match officials wanted to make this match a day. It was decided between the two teams that the match would be 40 overs, but 8 balls would be bowled in one over. It was the first ODI.

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In this compulsion, the first ODI International match was played on 5 January 1971, in which Australia won by 5 wickets. Not only this, this match was played with a red ball in white clothes. After about three and a half years of this, the Indian team also started playing ODI International cricket, but at that time the ODI match was 60-60 overs. Do you know which player captained India for the first time in ODIs?

Very few people know that Ajit Wadekar was the first captain for the Indian team in One Day International cricket. The Indian team had to bat first after losing the toss in that match played at Leeds Headingley ground against England. In that match, India had scored 265 runs losing all wickets in 53.5 overs, in response to which England won the match by 7 wickets by scoring 266 runs in 51.1 overs.

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India's playing eleven

Sunil Gavaskar, Sudhir Naik, Ajit Wadekar (captain), Gundappa Vishwanath, Farrukh Engineer (wicketkeeper), Brijesh Patel, Eknath Solkar, Syed Abid Ali, Madan Lal, Srinivas Venkatraghavan and Bishan Singh Bedi.