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.
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| 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
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| West Indies Won World Cup 1979 |
World Cup
No. 2 (1979)
Teams: - 8
Format: - same as 1975
Winning
teams: - West Indies VS England
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
