History of Cricket (20th Century)

20th Century Cricket

       The Indian cricket team in the 1930s

When the imposing Cricket consultation as the ICC was initially called was founded in 1909, only England, Australia and South Africa were members. However, the West Indies (1928), New Zealand (1930) and India (1932) became Test nations before the Second war and Pakistan (1952) soon afterwards. Cricket soared in popularity in these countries with the arrival of Test Cricket and domestic competitions gradually became more formalized with the West Indies formulating an island-based First-Class competition, New Zealand ongoing their Plunkett Shield that has beginning back to 1906, India introducing the Ranji trophy in 1934 and Pakistan founding the Quaid-e-Azam trophy in 1953.

                                                                 First Women's International

 Women’s cricket also took its first significant international steps at the beginning of the 20th century and therefore the first ever match game was played between England and Australia in 1934. The founding of the International Women’s Cricket Council in 1958 (since merged with ICC in 2005), further developed the Women’s game and it had been in 1973 that the primary Cricket World Cup of any kind happened . The Women’s World Cup was hosted by England who went on to say the inaugural cup with captain Rachel Heyhoe-Flint leading the way.

 After a postwar detonation, measured play and minor numbers of run characterize the 1950s, and this defensive nature of county cricket led to progressively decreased attendance. In response, in 1963 English county teams began playing a version of cricket with games of just one innings each and a maximum number of overs per innings. Limited-overs cricket grew in popularity and, in 1969 a national league was created which consequently caused a discount within the number of matches within the County Championship.

In 1970 South Africa were on the edge until further notice from international cricket contest thanks to apartheid then - hungry of top-level competition, the South Africa n Cricket Board began funding so-called “rebel tours” for international players to build teams and travel around South Africa. The rebel tours continued into the 1980s but when it became clear that apartheid was ending South Africa was welcomed back to international sport in 1991. South Africa played within the 1992 World Cup then soon after played their ‘return’ match game against the West Indies in Barbados in April.

 The first limited-over international match happened at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971 as a time-filler after a match game had been abandoned due to heavy rain on the opening days. The International Cricket Conference (as it had been then) reacted to the present development by organizing the primary Men’s Cricket World Cup in England in 1975, with all the Test-playing nations of the time participating and West Indies triumphing at Lord’s within the final.

 In 1977 Kerry Packer signed several of the simplest players within the world to a privately run cricket league outside the structure of international cricket. World Series Cricket hired a number of the banned South African players and allowed them to point out off their skills in a world arena against other world-class players. This only last two years, but the long run fallout of World Series Cricket has included the opening of considerably higher player salaries and innovation like coloured kit and night games. It wasn’t long before many of those innovations crossed over to international cricket.

 

                 South Africa return to international cricket

Such was the success of the inaugural World Cup , it had been decided that it might become a daily a part of the calendar with further Cricket World Cups were held in England in 1979 and 1983 before the tournament moved to India and Pakistan in 1987, which was the last event to be played employing a red ball with white clothing. 1992 dawned a replacement era of World Cup Cricket with floodlights, coloured clothing and a white ball being utilized.

 In 1992, the utilization of a 3rd umpire to adjudicate run-out appeals with television replays was introduced for the primary time within the Test series between South Africa and India. The third umpire's duties have subsequently expanded to incorporate decisions on other aspects of play like stumpings, catches and limits .

 The international game continued to grow with several ICC Associate and Affiliate Members becoming involved in expanding domestic competitions then on the international scene. And inside the finishing years of the 20th century, three of these countries also becomes Test nations  Sri Lanka (1982), Zimbabwe (1992) and Bangladesh (2000).