- 1975: First Cricket World cup being played.
- 1983: The then underdogs India winning the World cup for the first time.
- 1987: First Cricket World cup being played in the subcontinent where cricket was the most popular sport. All earlier editions were played in England.
- 1991: South Africa return to the international fold after a 21 year old apartheid.
- 1992: First World cup being played in coloured clothing and white coloured ball with Pakistan emerging as champions.
- 2001: The whole cricketing world got stunned when India beat Australia after India was enforced a follow on, thus India ending Australia’s 16 test match winning streak. Thereafter, India was always considered a potential threat by all non asian teams wherever it played them.
- 2007: First T20 world cup being played in South Africa with India becoming the first T20 cricket champions.
- 2010: Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batsman to score a double hundred in One Day International match. He did it against South Africa. As of now, four other batsmen scored double hundreds in One Day Internationals.
- 2011: India becomes the first team to win a 50 over world cup on home soil. This trend was further followed by hosts Australia in 2015 and England in 2019.
- 2019: The test championship started in which top 9 teams play test matches in the form of bilateral series. The final will be played between the top two teams of the points table in July 2021 at Lord's, London.
These are the top 10 turning points to have happened in the history of cricket.