Limited Overs International (LOI) cricket will see a new landmark during the match between England and Sri Lanka in the Carlton and United Series on Wednesday. It will be the 1400th LOI match ever. It took only 18 years for this to happen, illustrating the immense popularity of this type of cricket.

There had been a lot of confusion and controversy regarding the status of a number of LOI matches. But now there is an agreement about the status of all matches to date among statisticians and Boards alike. The only exception being 'Replayed' matches. Although ICC has ruled that in case of replayed matches (when the original match was abandaoned), both - the original and the replayed matches will count as official LOI matches, still some like to think otherwise.

The following table lists the 'Milestone' matches in LOI history

Number    Teams       Ground               Date           Season
    1   Aus    Eng    Melbourne            05 Jan 1971    1970-71
  100   Aus    Ind    Sydney               18 Dec 1980     1980-81
  200   WI     Ind    Manchester           09 Jun 1983     1983   
  300   WI     SL     Perth                02 Feb 1985     1984-85
  400   Pak    WI     Hyderabad (Pak)      18 Nov 1986     1986-87
  500   Ind    WI     Gwalior              22 Jan 1988     1987-88
  600   Aus    SL     Melbourne            04 Jan 1990     1989-90
  700   Pak    SL     Sargodha             10 Jan 1992     1991-92
  800   WI     Pak    Johannesburg         13 Feb 1993     1992-93
  900   SA     Aus    East London          02 Apr 1994     1993-94
 1000   Eng    WI     Nottingham           24 May 1995     1995   
 1100   SA     Ind    Sharjah              17 Apr 1996     1995-96
 1200   WI     Ind    Port-of-Spain        26 Apr 1997     1996-97
 1300   Ind    Aus    Kochi                01 Apr 1998     1997-98
 1400   Eng    SL     Sydney               03 Feb 1999     1998-99* (See note)

Note: The above assumes that the SA-WI match on Tuesday is not totally cancelled, and that the Eng-SL match itself is played as scheduled, without any cancellations/abandonment.

Contributed by: Atul Kahate (AKahate@yahoo.com)