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The series first took place the season after World Series Cricket ended, 1979-80, and it continued with their innovations such as floodlit cricket, the white ball and coloured clothing. In the initial season, England still wore their traditional whites whilst Australia appeared in yellow and the West Indies in lilac.

There were usually 12 qualifying matches in venues all over the country:


With the best-of-three finals (A few seasons there was the best of 5) being held at Melbourne or Sydney.


NOTABLE WORLD SERIES CUP HIGHLIGHTS

  • 1979-80 Australia finished third in the table and did not qualify for the finals. This didn't happen again until 1996-97.

  • 1979-80 England did not wear the world series cup shirt they had the whites on.

  • 1980-81's 5th final, 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.


  • 1982-83 finals New Zealander Lance Cairns completed his fifty in 21 balls - then the fastest fifty in ODI's, against Australia at Melbourne. He also became the first to hit six sixes in an innings.


  • 1983-84 - The first ever one day international tied match took place in the 2nd final at the MCG in 1984 between Australia and the West Indies.


  • 1984-85 - An unbroken third-wicket partnership of 224 between Australian batsmen Dean Jones and Allan Border against Sri Lanka at Adelaide, was then the highest for any wicket in ODI. Australia's victory by 232 runs is still the largest in ODI matches. West Indies won all ten of the qualifying matches.


  • 1986-87 - Mike Gatting 's England won the World Series Cup for the only time beating West Indies and Australia 2-0 in the finals. That summer England won the Ashes Test Series and the Benson & Hedges Perth Challenge one day tournaments.



OTHER INNOVATIONS

  • 1979-80's World Series Cup was the first official matches to be playing in coloured clothing, to use '''white balls''', '''black sightscreens''' and umpires to wear non-traditional colours (i.e. black).


  • 1988-89's series was the first one with the players names on the back of their shirts.


  • 1995-96's WSC was the first tournament to include numbers on the back of players shirts.


The World Series Cup was rebranded as the Carlton And United Series/VB Series when Benson and Hedges lost the sponsorship in 1996.


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