Friday 21 / February / 2025
MUSCAT: USA's win against Oman in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 at the Oman Cricket Academy ground in Al Amerat on Tuesday also set a new ODI world record by becoming the first match when not a single ball of pace was bowled.
All 61 overs were bowled by spinners, making it the first time in 4,671 men's one-day internationals that no pace or seam was bowled.
The USA successfully defended 122 in 35.3 overs - making it the lowest total successfully defended in a full men's ODI.
The previous record in a full unaffected match was India's 125 against Pakistan in 1985, when they won by 38 runs.
The total of 19 wickets that fell to spin also matched the record, set in a Bangladesh-Pakistan match in 2011, for the most wickets claimed by spinners in an ODI. The other wicket was a run out.
The combined 187 runs is the second-lowest aggregate score in a full men's ODI, behind the 163-run match between India and Bangladesh in 2014.
