First completed One-Day International to feature only spin bowling

On 18 February 2025, hosts Oman and the USA squared off in a Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 match at Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1) that featured a combined 61 overs of spin and not one ball of fast/seam bowling. Nine different bowlers were used in the match, with slow left-arm opener Shakeel Ahmed (3 for 20) helping to restrict the visitors to 122 all out in 35.3 overs. In reply, Oman were bundled out for 65 in 25.3 overs, with another slow left-armer, Nosthush Kenjige, claiming 5 for 11. The match was the 4,841st played in the limited-overs format – 4,671 of them completed ODIs.

The 19 wickets taken by spinners in the match equalled an ODI record set on 6 December 2011, when hosts Bangladesh took on Pakistan in Chattogram. Furthermore, the USA’s underwhelming 122 was the lowest score successfully defended in a full men’s One-Day International (ODI), breaking a 40-year-old record set by India (125 all out) against Pakistan (87 all out) in 1985. Two days earlier (16 February), in the same competition and at the same venue, Oman had created more ODI history by dismissing Namibia for 96 in 33.1 overs, becoming the first team to complete an ODI innings without using a pace/seam bowler, and the first team to take all 10 wickets in an ODI with spinners only.