The Cricket World Cup, generally held every four years, is played in this format. Rossouw made 128 from 115 balls before he was caught at mid-off to give Taylor a wicket, while Amla finished unbeaten on 153 from 142 deliveries. A One Day International ( ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours.
The Proteas ended their innings on 439 for two, four runs shy of the highest ever ODI score by a team - set by Sri Lanka in 2006 against the Netherlands.Įarlier, South Africa’s openers Amla and Rilee Rossouw both scored centuries as they made 247 in just over 38 overs for the first wicket. The wicketkeeper-batsman could not score another to make the record his own, however, when he went for another huge hit off Andre Russell and was caught at deep extra cover with two balls left having scored 149 from 44 balls. He needed a further 15 balls to break Anderson’s year-old fastest ODI century record and any West Indian hopes that De Villiers would subsequently relax were soon dismissed as he and Hashim Amla continued to pepper the New Wanderers Stadium boundary.ĭe Villiers soon set his sights on breaking another record - the most sixes in an individual ODI innings - and equalled the record Rahul Sharma set in 2013 against Australia when he smashed his 16th maximum on the penultimate ball of the penultimate over.
The Proteas’ captain needed only 31 deliveries to reach three figures in the second ODI in Johannesburg, five fewer than the previous record holder, New Zealand’s Corey Anderson, who needed 36 balls to reach a century, also against West Indies, last year.ĭe Villiers had earlier broken Sanath Jayasuriya’s 19-year-old record for the fastest ODI fifty, taking a mere 16 deliveries to achieve the feat by launching Jason Holder over the long-off boundary.
Australia now has a winning streak of 22, overtaking Ricky. He hits 219 off 149 balls to beat previous best of Sachin Tendulkar. South Africa played its first-ever ODI in 1991 after its return from apartheid-induced ban.South Africa’s batsman AB de Villiers has scored the fastest-ever one-day international century during his side’s run-laden innings against the West Indies on Sunday. Australia has extended its ODI dominance by beating New Zealand by six wickets in the first One Day International at Mount Maunganui. Virender Sehwag sets one-day international scoring record. It is based on the List of One Day International cricket records but concentrates solely on records dealing with the South African cricket team.
In 1975 the first Cricket World Cup was contested in England as a series of one-day matches of 60 overs per side. This is a list of South Africa Cricket team's One Day International records. Cricket World Cup, international cricket championship held at four-year intervals that is the premier contest in one-day cricket and one of the most-watched sporting events in the world. The earliest match recognised as an ODI was played between England and Australia in January 1971 since when there have been over 4,000 ODIs played by 28 teams. ODI cricket is List-A cricket, so statistics and records set in ODI matches also count toward List-A records. Unlike Test matches, ODIs consist of one inning per team, having a limit in the number of overs, currently 50 overs per innings – although in the past this has been 55 or 60 overs. South Africa Cricket Team & Players - Get the match schedule, latest news, and statistics of Test, one-day & Twenty 20 International matches of Team South Africa.
One Day International (ODI) cricket is played between international cricket teams who are Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as the top four Associate members.