Cricket World Cup History

1975

The first Cricket World Cup was played during 1975 in England. The first three matches were also recognized as Prudential Cup with the sponsorship of prudential plc, it is a pecuniary services company.

The cricket matches consisted of 60 over’s per players and it was played with established white uniform and with red balls. There were matches held only during day and the event is held after every four years.

1992

Till the 1992 Cricket World Cup, only 8 teams participated in the Cricket tournament. Later on, the numbers of teams were certainly increased and in Cricket World Cup 2007, 16 teams took part in the WC.

West Indies Won World Cup 1975

World Cup No. 1 (1975)

Teams: - 8

Format:- Two qualifying groups of four, playing each other once in 60-over matches top two in each group progressed to semi-finals; 15 matches in all.

Winning teams: - West Indies VS Australia 

West Indies Won World Cup 1979

World Cup No. 2 (1979)

Teams: - 8

Format: - same as 1975

Winning teams: - West Indies VS England

India Won World Cup 1983

World Cup No. 3 (1983)

Teams: - 8

Format: - Two groups of four, as in 1979; this time, though, each team played the others in its group twice, not once, to determine the four semi-finalists. As a ploy to reduce the chance of elimination by the weather, it was a good one, even if June wasn't wet and only three of the 27 games went into a reserve day anyway. For the first time, non-Test grounds were used.

Winning teams: - West Indies VS India

Australia Won World Cup 1987

World Cup No. 4 (1987)

Teams: - 8

Format: - As in 1983 but, due to the shorter daylight hours on the subcontinent, games were 50 over’s per innings, not 60. There was an attempt to cheer up disappointed crowds by staging a third-place play-off between Pakistan and India, but the star players demanded too much cash.

Winning teams: - England VS Australia

Pakistan Won World Cup 1991

World Cup No. 5 (1991)

Teams: - 9

Format: - This was the Cup that thought it was a league. All played all in a qualifying round that went on forever. It was fair, but about as exciting as the Nullarbor Plain. The good news was that South Africa joined in for the first time, following the end of apartheid.

Winning teams: - England VS Pakistan

Sri Lanka Won World Cup 1995

World Cup No. 6 (1995)

Teams: - 12

Format: - Two qualifying groups of six: each team played the other five in its group to determine the quarter-finalists. In other words, it took 30 matches to eliminate Zimbabwe and the three minnows, then seven more to reduce the remaining Test nations to one winner.

Winning teams: - Sri Lanka VS Australia

Australia Won World Cup 1999

World Cup No. 7 (1999)

Teams: - 12

Format: - Not so much tinkering as a complete revamp. The 12 entrants were split into two groups, and the top three in each group went into the Super Six, carrying with them the points they had earned against the two teams who had also qualified from their group. They then played the qualifying teams from the other group, creating a final all-played-all league table, with the top four going into the semi-finals. Confused? Most people were.

Winning teams: - Pakistan VS Australia

Australia Won World Cup 2003

World Cup No. 8 (2003)

Teams: - 14

Format: - The organisers all but ignored the lessons learned from 1999 and persevered with the Super Six format, although they tried to even things out by tweaking how points earned in the group stage were carried through. It was still to prove fundamentally flawed as boycotts of matches in Kenya and Zimbabwe, on political and safety grounds, skewed the points so much that Kenya reached the semi-finals courtesy of wins over Bangladesh, Canada and Sri Lanka...

Winning teams:- India VS Australia

Australia Won World Cup 2007

World Cup No. 9 (2007)

Teams 16

Format: - The lessons of 1999 and 2003 were learned and so the Super Eights qualifying was from four groups of four. However, the advertising men were left gawping as India and Pakistan failed to make it through the first round, Bangladesh and Ireland taking their places. While that thrilled the neutrals, it caused a flurry of "never again" chart from Asia and Dubai. The only points carried forward were the ones against the other qualifiers from the same group, which at least should have given the second round some meaning.

Winning teams: - Sri Lanka VS Australia

India Won World Cup 2011

World Cup No. 10 (2011)

Teams 14

Format: - Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed on a revised format for the 2011 World Cup, identical to that of the 1996 World Cup, except that there would be 14 teams instead of 12. The first round of the tournament would consist of two groups of seven teams. Each team in a group would play all the others once, and the top four from each group would qualify for the quarter-finals. This ensured that every team would play at least six matches.

Winning teams: - Sri Lanka VS India

Teams

1975:- England, New Zealand, India, East Africa, Australia, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka took participation and during.

1979:- Canada was replaced by East Africa.

1983:- Zimbabwe made an entry arena and Canada was out of the court.

The same teams took part in the 1987 Cricket World Cup.

1992:- South Africa made an entry in the group and pertaining year 9 teams took part in the Cricket tournament.

1996:- the number of teams even increased more up to 12 with the participation of three fresh groups UAE, Netherlands and Kenya. Bangladesh and Scotland were replaced by UAE and Netherlands during 1999 Cricket World Cup.

All the 9 cricket world cup matches played have also contributed more records in the Cricket World Cup History.

The records are on most excellent batting strike rate, maximum individual scores, and uppermost run-scorers, top bowling analysis, best bowling financial system rate, finest bowling strike rate, chief wicket-takers, premier team totals, lowest team totals, all major cricket catches and actually the most dismissals.