Cricket History Timeline 1971 - 1980 |
| Year | Important events in Cricket | Cricket Series | Important tournaments | Indian captains | Indian records in internationals | World records | Indian domestic records | Indian domestic tournament winners | Player news | player deaths births |
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| 1971 | First ODI match: Australia v England at Melbourne | Ajit Wadekar | Most Runs in one Test Match : 344 by Sunil Gavaskar (124 & 220 from India vs West Indies) | Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : Central Zone |
Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at
Port-of-Spain |
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| 1972 | Ajit Wadekar | Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Bombay Duleep Trophy : West Zone |
Birth of Sourav Ganguly (8 July)
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| 1973 | 1st one-day Cricket international for WI vs Eng | Ajit Wadekar | Most wickets in a Test series : 35 wickets in 5 tests by BS Chandrasekhar (India vs England) | Ranji Trophy : Karnataka Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : North Zone |
Birth of Rahul Dravid (11 January)
Birth of Sachin Tendulkar (24 April)
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| 1974 | First ODI of India against England at Headingley (July 13) | Ajit Wadekar | India's Lowest Test score 42-10 vs England at Lord's | Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Karnataka Duleep Trophy : South Zone |
Birth of Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) | |||||
| 1975 | Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, vs WI
Cricket World Cup |
Fist World Cup :West Indies beat Australia in final at Lord’s | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Bishan Singh Bedi |
Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Bombay Duleep Trophy : South Zone |
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| 1976 | First women’s match: England vs Australia
at Lord’s . |
Bishan Singh Bedi | India beats the West Indies by 6 wickets at the Port of Spain ground scoring a record match-winning fourth innings total of 4-406 | Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Bombay Duleep Trophy : West Zone |
Peter Petherick of New Zealand takes hat trick on debut, in match v Pakistan. | |||||
| 1977 | Centenary Test (March 17, 1977) at MCG. Australia beat England by 45 runs, exactly the same as 100 years before | Bishan Singh Bedi | Extras makes a record contribution to Pakistan's Innings v West Indies in Barbados, scoring 68 out of 291 Highest Score at batting position no 6 in Test match : 250 by KD Walters (Australia v New Zealand) |
Ranji Trophy : Karnataka Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : West Zone |
Malcolm Nash is hit for 34 runs by Frank Hayes of Lancashire in one over | |||||
| 1978 | Australia wins the first Women's World Cup by defeating England | Bishan Singh Bedi Sunil Gavaskar |
Slowest Test century : Mudassar Nazar in 557 minutes (Pakistan v England) | Ranji Trophy : Delhi Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : North Zone |
Graham Yallop of Australia wears a protective helmet
to bat in a Test match, the first player to do so. |
Birth of Virender Sehwag (20 October)
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| 1979 | 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG | West Indies beat England and won the Prudential World Cup | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Sunil Gavaskar |
2nd wicket test partnership : 344* runs by SM Gavaskar & DB Vengsarkar vs West Indies | Ranji Trophy : Delhi Irani Trophy : Not Played Duleep Trophy : North Zone |
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| 1980 | Eight-ball over abolished in Australia, making
the six-ball over universal. |
Sunil Gavaskar | Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Delhi Duleep Trophy : West Zone |
Birth of Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) | ||||||
| Year | Important events in Cricket | Cricket Series | Important tournaments | Indian captains | Indian records in internationals | World records | Indian domestic records | Indian domestic tournament winners | Player news | player deaths births |
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