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How the 2000s invented T20 and then had to live with it Why the 20th century settled on five-Test series as the standard Regional qualifying is where associate cricket lives or dies 1990s one-day tri-series in Sharjah rewired the cricket calendar 1971 at Melbourne: the first one-day international was a rain rescue act Drop-in pitches let stadiums host cricket without a real square 2005 Ashes: the series that made cricket fashionable again in England 2007: the first World T20 invented a format nobody trusted yet The 1970s are when one-day cricket stopped being a warm-up act Local league promotion is the only trophy most club cricketers ever chase The Gulf became Asia's neutral home ground for international cricket Europe outside England: Ireland and the Netherlands keep producing cricket upsets 2019 Lord's: the World Cup final decided on boundary countback Test cricket only got its first floodlit matches in the 2010s 2015 Adelaide: the first day-night Test and the pink ball argument The 1960s are the forgotten decade of English county cricket Is there enough domestic cricket for women outside the WPL? Australia's Sheffield Shield is why the national bench never looks weak The Asia Cup is the only continental cricket tournament that actually pays How is the Player of the Match picked when a cricket match ends in a tie? What does a strong under-19 World Cup really tell us about a player? Why are back-to-back Test matches sometimes scheduled only three days apart? How can a cricket team lose its number one ICC ranking without losing a match? Are ICC rankings used to seed teams for a World Cup? Why do some bilateral cricket series trophies stay with the winning board? 1981 Headingley: how one innings flipped an entire Ashes series Are young batters getting enough red-ball practice before T20 takes over? 1983 at Lord's: India's first World Cup and the party that followed Are women's Test matches being revived for good or just for show? Ireland's Test status has not come with the fixtures to use it Why are there so few tri-series left on the international calendar? 1877: the first Test match was arranged almost as an afterthought