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08-01-1981 India were dismissed by Australia on a rain-affected Sydney pitch in 113 minutes for their lowest total. The actual playing time of 3 hours and 26 minutes is the shortest for a completed ODI match in terms of time.
01-02-1981 New Zealand, needing 6 runs off the final ball to tie the match, when Australian captain Greg Chappell ordered his younger brother, Trevor, to bowl it underarm along the ground. Such tactics were subsequently banned.
04-02-1981 West Indian fast bowler Colin Croft (6 for 15 in 9
overs) became the second bowler after Australian Gary Gilmour to capture six wickets in an ODI match.
08-06-1981 Australian wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh became the first to hold five catches in an ODI match at
Headingley, Leeds against England.
25-11-1981 India staged its first home ODI match (at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad) more than a decade after the inaugural match. Incidentally it was India's 26th ODI match since their first in 1974.
10-01-1982 A record crowd of 78, 142 attended the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup match between Australia and West Indies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
19-01-1982 In the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup match against West Indies at Sydney, a boundary by Allan Border off the final ball before rain ended play gave Australia victory by 0.11 of a run per over. Australia thus qualified for the B&H WSC finals ahead of Pakistan only by virtue of a faster scoring rate in the qualifying matches.
27-01-1982 After six defeats, West Indies gained their first victory against Australia in a match involving floodlit play.
13-02-1982 Sri Lanka, having granted full membership of the ICC in 1981, staged its first home ODI at the Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo four days before its inaugural Test.
17-07-1982 England's Derek Pringle, son of Donald, who represented East Africa in the 1975 Prudential World Cup, provided the first instance of two generations of a family appearing in
ODIs.
20-09-1982 Pakistani pace bowler Jalaluddin took the first hat-trick in
ODIs, when he dismissed Australians Rodney Marsh, Bruce Yardley and Geoff Lawson with the fourth, fifth and sixth balls of his seventh over.
31-12-1982 Pakistani Zaheer Abbas (105 against India at Lahore) became the first batsman to score five hundreds in ODIs surpassing Englishman Dennis Amiss' record of four hundreds.
21-01-1983 At Karachi (against India) Zaheer Abbas extended his record to six hundreds and became the first batsman to score three in successive innings.
23-01-1983 A record crowd of 84,153 attended the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup match between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
29-01-1983 New Zealand (297-6 in 48.5 overs) against England (296-5 in 50
overs) at Adelaide recorded then the highest total by any team batting second in an ODI match.
13-02-1983 Lance Cairns (52) completed his fifty in 21 balls - then the fastest fifty in ODI against Australia at Melbourne. He also became the first to hit six sixes in an innings.
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