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Birth of the Cricket World Cup
May 23 (CRICKETNMORE) - There have been 422 Tests played in Australia over the last 142 years – only one of them was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Had it not been for that rainfall in Melbourne back in 1971, the Cricket World Cup as we know it might never have come to pass.
It was after three days of constant rain that the match at the MCG was called off, and instead England and Australia played a 40-over (eight balls per over) one-day match. That is now recognised as the first-ever One-Day International, and four years later eight teams headed to England for the first Cricket World Cup.
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