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17-03-1983 Australian Rodney Marsh playing his 75th match became the first wicket-keeper to glove his 100th dismissal in ODI - against New Zealand at Sydney.
13-04-1983 Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Guy de Alwis equalled Australian wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh's record to became the second to hold five catches in an ODI match at Colombo against Australia.
09-06-1983 The third Prudential World Cup began.
09-06-1983 The match between Pakistan (338-5 in 60 overs) and Sri Lanka (288-9 in 60
overs) produced then the highest total, the highest total by a team batting second and losing, and the highest match aggregate in
ODI. All these records were subsequently beaten.
09-06-1983 Zimbabwe playing their first ever ODI match upset Australia in the opening round of the World Cup at Nottingham. Zimbabwean captain Duncan Fletcher became the first all-rounder to score a fifty (69 not out) and take four wickets (for 42 in 11
overs) in the same ODI.
In the same match, Australian Dennis Lillee playing his 60th ODI became the first bowler to take 100 wickets in
ODI.
09-06-1983 New Zealander Martin Snedden, by conceding 105 runs in his 12
overs, became the only bowler to do so in ODI, against England at the Oval.
10-06-1983 West Indies were defeated for the first time in the World Cup matches when India defeated them at Manchester by 34 runs.
11-06-1983 Englishman David Gower (130) scored his sixth hundred to equal the record held by Pakistani Zaheer Abbas in
ODI.
11-06-1983 Indian wicket-keeper Syed Kirmani equalled wicket-keeping record to became the third to hold five catches in an ODI match against Zimbabwe at Leicester.
12-06-1983 West Indian Winston Davis (7 for 51 off 10.3 overs) against Australia at Leeds became the first bowler to take seven wickets in an ODI match.
18-06-1983 Kapil Dev's 175 not out against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells recorded the then highest individual score in an
ODI. Batting for 181 minutes he hit six sixes and 17 fours. He shared with Syed Kirmani the first century partnership of 126 (unbeaten) for the 9th wicket in
ODIs, which still stands.
20-06-1983 Zaheer Abbas became the first batsman to score seven ODI hundreds when he scored 103 not out at Nottingham against New Zealand.
25-06-1983 India achieved one of cricket's most surprising results when they prevented West Indies from
completing a hat-trick of World Cup victories. India won by 43 runs at Lord's.
02-10-1983 In the match between India and Pakistan at Jaipur, no-balls and wides were debited to bowlers' analysis for the first time in an ODI as per the new rule.
10-01-1984 Playing his 83rd match, Australian wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh became the first to complete the double of 1000 runs and 100 dismissals at Sydney
against Pakistan.
22-01-1984 A record crowd of 86, 133 watched the B&H WSC match at Melbourne between Australia and West Indies.
11-02-1984 Australia and West Indies match at Melbourne produced ODIs first ever 'tie' match. in which both teams scored the same number of runs.
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