Cricket World Cup

The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup)[1] is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events and is considered the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar" by the ICC.[2]

This article is about the men's 50-over tournament. For the women's tournament, see Women's Cricket World Cup. For the most recent tournament, see 2019 Cricket World Cup. For the Twenty20 tournament, see ICC Men's T20 World Cup and ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

ICC Men's Cricket World Cup

The World Cup Trophy
Administrator	International Cricket Council (ICC)
Format	One Day International
First edition	1975  England
Latest edition	2019  England &  Wales
Next edition	2023  India
Tournament format	↓various
Number of teams	20 (all tournaments) 14 (until 2015) 10 (current)
Current champion	England (1st title)
Most successful	Australia (5 titles)
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar (2,278)
Most wickets	Glenn McGrath (71)

Tournaments
1975 1979 1983 1987 1992 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023

The first World Cup was organised in England in June 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years earlier. However, a separate Women's Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men's tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held as early as 1912, when a triangular tournament of Test matches was played between Australia, England and South Africa. The first three World Cups were held in England. From the 1987 tournament onwards, hosting has been shared between countries under an unofficial rotation system, with fourteen ICC members having hosted at least one match in the tournament.

The World Cup is open to all members of the ICC, although the highest-ranking teams receive automatic qualification. The remaining teams are determined via the World Cricket League and the ICC World Cup Qualifier. A total of twenty teams have competed in the eleven editions of the tournament, with ten teams competing in the recent 2019 tournament. Australia has won the tournament five times, India and West Indies twice each, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have won it once each. The best performance by a non-full-member team came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.

England are the current champions after winning the 2019 edition. The next tournament will be held in India in 2023.

History

The first international cricket match was played between Canada and the United States, on 24 and 25 September 1844.[3] However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for The Ashes in subsequent years. South Africa was admitted to Test status in 1889.[4] Representative cricket teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition. Cricket was also included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games, where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal.[5] This was the only appearance of cricket at the Summer Olympics.

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa. The event was not a success: the summer was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and crowd attendances were poor, attributed to a "surfeit of cricket".[6] Since then, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the triangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.[7]

The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over time, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952. However, international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup,[8] and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in England. A national Sunday League was formed in 1969. The first One-Day International match was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd. It was a forty over game with eight balls per over.[9]

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket (WSC) competition. It introduced many of the now commonplace features of One Day International cricket, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics. The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979. The success and popularity of the domestic one-day competitions in England and other parts of the world, as well as the early One-Day Internationals, prompted the ICC to consider organising a Cricket World Cup.[10]

Prudential World Cups (1975–1983)

The Prudential Cup trophy

The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at the time. The 1975 tournament started on 7 June.[11] The first three events were held in England and officially known as the Prudential Cup after the sponsors Prudential plc. The matches consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team, played during the daytime in traditional form, with the players wearing cricket whites and using red cricket balls.[12]

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies (the six Test nations at the time), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.[13] One notable omission was South Africa, who were banned from international cricket due to apartheid. The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.[13] Roy Fredricks of West Indies was the first batsmen who got hit-wicket in ODI during the 1975 World Cup final.[14]

The 1979 World Cup saw the introduction of the ICC Trophy competition to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup,[15] with Sri Lanka and Canada qualifying.[16] The West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts England by 92 runs in the final. At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.[16]

The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time. By this stage, Sri Lanka had become a Test-playing nation, and Zimbabwe qualified through the ICC Trophy. A fielding circle was introduced, 30 yards (27 m) away from the stumps. Four fieldsmen needed to be inside it at all times.[17] The teams faced each other twice, before moving into the knock-outs. India was crowned champions after upsetting the West Indies by 43 runs in the final.[10][18]

Different champions (1987–1996)

India and Pakistan jointly hosted the 1987 tournament, the first time that the competition was held outside England. The games were reduced from 60 to 50 overs per innings, the current standard, because of the shorter daylight hours in the Indian subcontinent compared with England's summer.[19] Australia won the championship by defeating England by 7 runs in the final, the closest margin in the World Cup final until the 2019 edition between England and New Zealand.[20][21]

The 1992 World Cup, held in Australia and New Zealand, introduced many changes to the game, such as coloured clothing, white balls, day/night matches, and a change to the fielding restriction rules. The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott.[22] Pakistan overcame a dismal start in the tournament to eventually defeat England by 22 runs in the final and emerge as winners.[23]

The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.[24] In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens after the hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 252, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.[25] Sri Lanka went on to win their maiden championship by defeating Australia by seven wickets in the final at Lahore.[26]

Australian treble (1999–2007)

In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands.[27][28] Twelve teams contested the World Cup. Australia qualified for the semi-finals after reaching their target in their Super 6 match against South Africa off the final over of the match.[29] They then proceeded to the final with a tied match in the semi-final also against South Africa where a mix-up between South African batsmen Lance Klusener and Allan Donald saw Donald drop his bat and stranded mid-pitch to be run out. In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs and with eight wickets in hand.[30]

A crowd of over 10,000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya hosted the 2003 World Cup. The number of teams participating in the event increased from twelve to fourteen. Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.[31] In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.[32][33]

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies and expanded to sixteen teams.[34] Following Pakistan's upset loss to World Cup debutants Ireland in the group stage, Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room.[35] Jamaican police had initially launched a murder investigation into Woolmer's death but later confirmed that he died of heart failure.[36] Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final by 53 runs (D/L) in farcical light conditions, and extended their undefeated run in the World Cup to 29 matches and winning three straight championships.[37]

Hosts triumph (2011–2019)

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh together hosted the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Pakistan were stripped of their hosting rights following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, with the games originally scheduled for Pakistan redistributed to the other host countries.[38] The number of teams participating in the World Cup dropped down to fourteen.[39] Australia lost their final group stage match against Pakistan on 19 March 2011, ending an unbeaten streak of 35 World Cup matches, which had begun on 23 May 1999.[40] India won their second World Cup title by beating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai, and became the first country to win the final on home soil.[39] However, it has been alleged that the final match was fixed and Sri Lanka sold the match to India.[41] Former Sri Lankan Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said, "The 2011 Cricket World Cup final was fixed. I stand by what I say. It took place when I was the Minister of Sports."[42] Earlier, former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga also claimed the final to be fixed and demanded a probe into the matter.[43]

Australia and New Zealand jointly hosted the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The number of participants remained at fourteen. Ireland was the most successful Associate nation with a total of three wins in the tournament. New Zealand beat South Africa in a thrilling first semi-final to qualify for their maiden World Cup final. Australia defeated New Zealand by seven wickets in the final at Melbourne to lift the World Cup for the fifth time.[44]

England perform a lap of honour around Lord's after their victory.

The 2019 Cricket World Cup was hosted by England and Wales. The number of participants was reduced to 10. The first semi-final where New Zealand defeated India was pushed over to the reserve day after rain made the match unable to be completed on the original scheduled day.[45] England defeated the defending champions, Australia, in the second semi-final to play New Zealand in the final. Neither finalist had up to this point won the Cricket World Cup. In the final, the scores were tied at 241 after 50 overs and the match went to a super over. After the super over, scores were again tied at 15. Therefore the match was tied, but the World Cup was won by England, owing to a greater boundary count than New Zealand in their respective batting innings.[46][47]

Format

Qualification

Main article: Cricket World Cup qualification

From the first World Cup in 1975 up to the 2019 World Cup, the majority of teams taking part qualified automatically. Until the 2015 World Cup this was mostly through having Full Membership of the ICC, and for the 2019 World Cup this was mostly through ranking position in the ICC ODI Championship.

Since the second World Cup in 1979 up to the 2019 World Cup, the teams that qualified automatically were joined by a small number of others who qualified for the World Cup through the qualification process. The first qualifying tournament being the ICC Trophy;[48] later the process expanding with pre-qualifying tournaments. For the 2011 World Cup, the ICC World Cricket League replaced the past pre-qualifying processes; and the name "ICC Trophy" was changed to "ICC World Cup Qualifier".[49] The World Cricket League was the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify. The number of teams qualifying varied throughout the years.

From the 2023 World Cup onwards, only the host nation(s) will qualify automatically. All countries will participate in a series of leagues to determine qualification, with automatic promotion and relegation between divisions from one World Cup cycle to the next.

Tournament

The captains of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The format of the Cricket World Cup has changed greatly over the course of its history. Each of the first four tournaments was played by eight teams, divided into two groups of four.[50] The competition consisted of two stages, a group stage and a knock-out stage. The four teams in each group played each other in the round-robin group stage, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals played against each other in the final. With South Africa returning in the fifth tournament in 1992 as a result of the end of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.[51] The tournament was further expanded in 1996, with two groups of six teams.[52] The top four teams from each group progressed to quarter-finals and semi-finals.

A distinct format was used for the 1999 and 2003 World Cups. The teams were split into two pools, with the top three teams in each pool advancing to the Super 6.[53] The Super 6 teams played the three other teams that advanced from the other group. As they advanced, the teams carried their points forward from previous matches against other teams advancing alongside them, giving them an incentive to perform well in the group stages.[53] The top four teams from the Super 6 stage progressed to the semi-finals, with the winners playing in the final.

The format used in the 2007 World Cup involved 16 teams allocated into four groups of four.[54] Within each group, the teams played each other in a round-robin format. Teams earned points for wins and half-points for ties. The top two teams from each group moved forward to the Super 8 round. The Super 8 teams played the other six teams that progressed from the different groups. Teams earned points in the same way as the group stage, but carried their points forward from previous matches against the other teams who qualified from the same group to the Super 8 stage.[55] The top four teams from the Super 8 round advanced to the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals played in the final.

The format used in the 2011 and 2015[56] World Cups featured two groups of seven teams, each playing in a round-robin format. The top four teams from each group proceeded to the knock out stage consisting of quarter-finals, semi-finals and ultimately the final.[57]

In the 2019 World Cup, the number of teams participating dropped to 10. Every team were scheduled to play against each other once in a round robin format, before entering the semifinals, a similar format to the 1992 World Cup.

Trophy

Main article: Cricket World Cup Trophy

The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is presented to the winners of the World Cup. The current trophy was created for the 1999 championships, and was the first permanent prize in the tournament's history. Prior to this, different trophies were made for each World Cup.[58] The trophy was designed and produced in London by a team of craftsmen from Garrard & Co over a period of two months.

The current trophy is made from silver and gilt, and features a golden globe held up by three silver columns. The columns, shaped as stumps and bails, represent the three fundamental aspects of cricket: batting, bowling and fielding, while the globe characterises a cricket ball.[59] The seam is tilted to symbolize the axial tilt of the Earth. It stands 60 centimetres high and weighs approximately 11 kilograms. The names of the previous winners are engraved on the base of the trophy, with space for a total of twenty inscriptions. The ICC keeps the original trophy. A replica differing only in the inscriptions is permanently awarded to the winning team.[60]

Media coverage

Mello, the mascot of the 2007 World Cup

The tournament is one of the world's most-viewed sporting events.[61] The 2011 Cricket World Cup final was televised in over 200 countries to over 2.2 billion television viewers.[62][63][64] Television rights, mainly for the 2011 and 2015 World Cup, were sold for over US$1.1 billion,[65] and sponsorship rights were sold for a further US$500 million.[66] The 2003 Cricket World Cup matches were attended by 626,845 people,[67] while the 2007 Cricket World Cup sold more than 672,000 tickets. The 2015 World Cup Sold over 1.1 million tickets which was a Record .[68][69]

Successive World Cup tournaments have generated increasing media attention as One-Day International cricket has become more established. The 2003 World Cup in South Africa was the first to sport a mascot, Dazzler the zebra.[70] An orange mongoose known as Mello was the mascot for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.[71] Stumpy, a blue elephant was the mascot for the 2011 World Cup.[72]

On 13 February, the opening of the 2015 tournament was celebrated with a Google Doodle.[73]

Due to England making the 2019 final, the match was domestically picked up for terrestrial broadcast by Channel 4 (with a move to More4 later in the match) in a rights share with local telecaster Sky Sports.[74]

Selection of hosts

Civic Centre, South Africa honours the 2003 World Cup.

Main article: Cricket World Cup hosts

The International Cricket Council's executive committee votes for the hosts of the tournament after examining the bids made by the nations keen to hold a Cricket World Cup.[75]

England hosted the first three competitions. The ICC decided that England should host the first tournament because it was ready to devote the resources required to organising the inaugural event.[11] India volunteered to host the third Cricket World Cup, but most ICC members preferred England as the longer period of daylight in England in June meant that a match could be completed in one day.[76] The 1987 Cricket World Cup was held in India and Pakistan, the first hosted outside England.[77]

Many of the tournaments have been jointly hosted by nations from the same geographical region, such as South Asia in 1987, 1996 and 2011, Australasia (in Australia and New Zealand) in 1992 and 2015, Southern Africa in 2003 and West Indies in 2007.

Results

Main article: List of Cricket World Cup finals

Year	Official Host(s)	Final
		Venue	Winners	Result	Runners-up
1975	England	London	West Indies 291/8 (60 overs)	West Indies won by 17 runs Scorecard	Australia 274 all out (58.4 overs)
1979	England	London	West Indies 286/9 (60 overs)	West Indies won by 92 runs Scorecard	England 194 all out (51 overs)
1983	England [lower-alpha 1]	London	India 183 all out (54.4 overs)	India won by 43 runs Scorecard	West Indies 140 all out (52 overs)
1987	India  Pakistan	Kolkata	Australia 253/5 (50 overs)	Australia won by 7 runs Scorecard	England 246/8 (50 overs)
1992	Australia  New Zealand	Melbourne	Pakistan 249/6 (50 overs)	Pakistan won by 22 runs Scorecard	England 227 all out (49.2 overs)
1996	Pakistan  India  Sri Lanka	Lahore	Sri Lanka 245/3 (46.2 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets Scorecard	Australia 241/7 (50 overs)
1999	England  Wales [lower-alpha 2]	London	Australia 133/2 (20.1 overs)	Australia won by 8 wickets Scorecard	Pakistan 132 all out (39 overs)
2003	South Africa [lower-alpha 3]	Johannesburg	Australia 359/2 (50 overs)	Australia won by 125 runs Scorecard	India 234 all out (39.2 overs)
2007	West Indies [lower-alpha 4]	Bridgetown	Australia 281/4 (38 overs)	Australia won by 53 runs (D/L) Scorecard	Sri Lanka 215/8 (36 overs)
2011	India  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh	Mumbai	India 277/4 (48.2 overs)	India won by 6 wickets Scorecard	Sri Lanka 274/6 (50 overs)
2015	Australia  New Zealand	Melbourne	Australia 186/3 (33.1 overs)	Australia won by 7 wickets Scorecard	New Zealand 183 all out (45 overs)
2019	England  Wales	London	England 241 all out (50 overs) 15/0 (super over) 23 fours, 3 sixes	Tie (England won on boundary count) Scorecard	New Zealand 241/8 (50 overs) 15/1 (super over) 14 fours, 3 sixes
2023	India

Notes

1. England was the sole designated host, but matches were also played in Wales.
2. The England and Wales Cricket Board was the sole designated host, but matches were also played in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Scotland.
3. Cricket South Africa was the sole designated host, but matches were also played in Zimbabwe and Kenya.
4. Eight member countries of the West Indies Cricket Board hosted matches – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Tournament Summary

Twenty nations have qualified for the Cricket World Cup at least once. Seven teams have competed in every tournament, six of which have won the title.[10] The West Indies won the first two tournaments, Australia has won five, India has won two, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have each won once. The West Indies (1975 and 1979) and Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) are the only teams to have won consecutive titles.[10] Australia has played in seven of the twelve finals (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015). New Zealand has yet to win the World Cup, but has been runners-up two times (2015 and 2019). The best result by a non-Test playing nation is the semi-final appearance by Kenya in the 2003 tournament; while the best result by a non-Test playing team on their debut is the Super 8 (second round) by Ireland in 2007.[10]

Sri Lanka, as a co-host of the 1996 World Cup, was the first host to win the tournament, though the final was held in Pakistan.[10] India won in 2011 as host and was the first team to win a final played in their own country.[78] Australia and England repeated the feat in 2015 and 2019 respectively.[44] Other than this, England made it to the final as a host in 1979. Other countries which have achieved or equalled their best World Cup results while co-hosting the tournament are New Zealand as finalists in 2015, Zimbabwe who reached the Super Six in 2003, and Kenya as semi-finalists in 2003.[10] In 1987, co-hosts India and Pakistan both reached the semi-finals, but were eliminated by England and Australia respectively.[10] Australia in 1992, England in 1999, South Africa in 2003, and Bangladesh in 2011 have been host teams that were eliminated in the first round.

Teams' performances

An overview of the teams' performances in every World Cup:

Host Team	1975 (8)	1979 (8)	1983 (8)	1987 (8)	1992 (9)	1996 (12)	1999 (12)	2003 (14)	2007 (16)	2011 (14)	2015 (14)	2019 (10)	2023 (10)
Afghanistan											GP	GP
Australia	RU	GP	GP	W	GP	RU	W	W	W	QF	W	SF
Bangladesh							GP	GP	S8	GP	QF	GP
Bermuda									GP
Canada		GP						GP	GP	GP
East Africa^†	GP
England	SF	RU	SF	RU	RU	QF	GP	GP	S8	QF	GP	W
India	GP	GP	W	SF	GP	SF	S6	RU	GP	W	SF	SF
Ireland									S8	GP	GP
Kenya						GP	GP	SF	GP	GP
Namibia								GP
Netherlands						GP		GP	GP	GP
New Zealand	SF	SF	GP	GP	SF	QF	SF	S6	SF	SF	RU	RU
Pakistan	GP	SF	SF	SF	W	QF	RU	GP	GP	SF	QF	GP
Scotland							GP		GP		GP
South Africa					SF	QF	SF	GP	SF	QF	SF	GP
Sri Lanka	GP	GP	GP	GP	GP	W	GP	SF	RU	RU	QF	GP
United Arab Emirates						GP					GP
West Indies	W	W	RU	GP	GP	SF	GP	GP	S8	QF	QF	GP
Zimbabwe			GP	GP	GP	GP	S6	S6	GP	GP	GP

†No longer exists.

Before the 1992 World Cup, South Africa was banned due to apartheid.

The number of wins followed by Run-rate is the criteria for determining the rankings till the 1987 World Cup.

The number of points followed by, head to head performance and then net run-rate is the criteria for determining the rankings for the World Cups from 1992 onwards.

Legend

• W – Winner
• RU – Runner up
• SF – Semi-finals
• S6 – Super Six (1999–2003)
• S8 – Super Eight (2007)
• QF – Quarter-finals (1996, 2011–2015)
• GP – Group stage / First round
• Q – Qualified, still in contention

Debutant teams

Year	Teams
1975	Australia, East Africa^†,  England,  India,  New Zealand,  Pakistan,  Sri Lanka,  West Indies
1979	Canada
1983	Zimbabwe
1987	none
1992	South Africa
1996	Kenya,  Netherlands,  United Arab Emirates
1999	Bangladesh,  Scotland
2003	Namibia
2007	Bermuda,  Ireland
2011	none
2015	Afghanistan
2019	none
2023	TBD

†Disbanded in 1989.

Overview

The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past World Cups, as of the end of the 2019 tournament. Teams are sorted by best performance, then by appearances, total number of wins, total number of games, and alphabetical order respectively.

	Appearances				Statistics
Team	Total	First	Latest	Best performance	Mat.	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Win%*
Australia	12	1975	2019	Champions (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015)	94	69	23	1	1	74.73
India	12	1975	2019	Champions (1983, 2011)	84	53	29	1	1	64.45
West Indies	12	1975	2019	Champions (1975, 1979)	80	43	35	0	2	55.12
England	12	1975	2019	Champions (2019)	83	48	32	2	1	59.75
Pakistan	12	1975	2019	Champions (1992)	79	45	32	0	2	58.44
Sri Lanka	12	1975	2019	Champions (1996)	80	38	39	1	2	49.35
New Zealand	12	1975	2019	Runners-up (2015, 2019)	89	54	33	1	1	61.93
South Africa	8	1992	2019	Semi-finals (1992, 1999, 2007, 2015)	64	38	23	2	1	61.90
Kenya	5	1996	2011	Semi-finals (2003)	29	6	22	0	1	21.42
Zimbabwe	9	1983	2015	Super 6s (1999, 2003)	57	11	42	1	3	21.29
Bangladesh	6	1999	2019	Quarter-finals (2015), Super 8s (2007)	40	14	25	0	1	35.89
Ireland	3	2007	2015	Super 8s (2007)	21	7	13	1	0	35.71
Netherlands	4	1996	2011	Group Stage (1996, 2003, 2007, 2011)	20	2	18	0	0	10.00
Canada	4	1979	2011	Group Stage (1979, 2003, 2007, 2011)	18	2	16	0	0	11.11
Scotland	3	1999	2015	Group Stage (1999, 2007, 2015)	14	0	14	0	0	0.00
Afghanistan	2	2015	2019	Group Stage (2015, 2019)	15	1	14	0	0	6.66
United Arab Emirates	2	1996	2015	Group Stage (1996, 2015)	11	1	10	0	0	9.09
Namibia	1	2003	2003	Group Stage (2003)	6	0	6	0	0	0.00
Bermuda	1	2007	2007	Group Stage (2007)	3	0	3	0	0	0.00
East Africa^†	1	1975	1975	Group Stage (1975)	3	0	3	0	0	0.00
Last Updated: 14 July 2019 Source: ESPNcricinfo

† No longer exists.

Note:

• The Win percentage excludes no results and counts ties as half a win.
• Teams are sorted by their best performance, then winning percentage, then (if equal) by alphabetical order.

Teams in World Cup

Year	Teams
1975  England	West Indies,  Australia,  New Zealand,  England,  India,  Pakistan,  Sri Lanka, East Africa^†
1979  England	West Indies,  England,  Pakistan,  New Zealand,  Sri Lanka,  Australia,  India,  Canada
1983  England  Wales	India,  West Indies,  England,  Pakistan,  New Zealand,  Australia,  Sri Lanka,  Zimbabwe
1987  India  Pakistan	Australia,  England,  Pakistan,  India,  West Indies,  New Zealand,  Sri Lanka,  Zimbabwe
1992  Australia  New Zealand	Pakistan,  England,  New Zealand,  South Africa,  Australia,  West Indies,  India,  Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe
1996  India  Pakistan  Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka,  Australia,  West Indies,  India,  New Zealand,  Pakistan,  South Africa,  England, Zimbabwe,  Kenya,  United Arab Emirates,  Netherlands
1999  England  Wales  Scotland  Netherlands  Ireland	Australia,  Pakistan,  New Zealand,  South Africa,  Zimbabwe,  India,  West Indies,  England, Bangladesh,  Sri Lanka,  Kenya,  Scotland
2003  South Africa  Zimbabwe  Kenya	Australia,  India,  Kenya,  Sri Lanka,  New Zealand,  Zimbabwe,  South Africa,  West Indies, England,  Pakistan,  Netherlands,  Canada, Bangladesh,  Namibia
2007  West Indies	Australia,  Sri Lanka,  New Zealand,  South Africa,  England,  West Indies,  Bangladesh,  Ireland, India,  Pakistan,  Kenya,  Netherlands, Zimbabwe,  Canada,  Scotland,  Bermuda
2011  India  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh	India,  Sri Lanka,  Pakistan,  New Zealand,  Australia,  England,  South Africa,  West Indies, Bangladesh,  Zimbabwe,  Ireland,  Canada, Netherlands,  Kenya
2015  Australia  New Zealand	Australia,  New Zealand,  South Africa,  India,  West Indies,  Pakistan,  Bangladesh,  Sri Lanka, Ireland,  England,  Zimbabwe,  Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates,  Scotland
2019  England  Wales	England,  New Zealand,  Australia,  India,  Pakistan,  Sri Lanka,  South Africa,  Bangladesh, West Indies,  Afghanistan
2023  India	TBD

†Disbanded in 1989.

Awards

Man of the tournament

Main article: Cricket World Cup awards

Since 1992, one player has been declared as "Man of the Tournament" at the end of the World Cup finals:[79]

Year	Player	Performance details
1992	Martin Crowe	456 runs
1996	Sanath Jayasuriya	221 runs and 7 wickets
1999	Lance Klusener	281 runs and 17 wickets
2003	Sachin Tendulkar	673 runs and 2 wickets
2007	Glenn McGrath	26 wickets
2011	Yuvraj Singh	362 runs and 15 wickets
2015	Mitchell Starc	22 wickets
2019	Kane Williamson	578 runs and 2 wickets

Man of the Match in the Final

There were no Man of the Tournament awards before 1992 but Man of the Match awards have always been given for individual matches. Winning the Man of the Match in the final is logically noteworthy, as this indicates the player deemed to have played the biggest part in the World Cup final. To date the award has always gone to a member of the winning side. The Man of the Match award in the final of the competition has been awarded to:[79]

Year	Player	Performance details
1975	Clive Lloyd	102
1979	Viv Richards	138*
1983	Mohinder Amarnath	3/12 and 26
1987	David Boon	75
1992	Wasim Akram	33 and 3/49
1996	Aravinda de Silva	107* and 3/42
1999	Shane Warne	4/33
2003	Ricky Ponting	140*
2007	Adam Gilchrist	149
2011	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	91*
2015	James Faulkner	3/36
2019	Ben Stokes	84* and 0/20

Tournament records

Main article: List of Cricket World Cup records

Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in World Cup history.

World Cup records[80]
Batting
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar	2,278 (1992–2011)
Highest average (min. 10 inns.) [81]	Lance Klusener	124.00 (1999–2003)
Highest score	Martin Guptill v  West Indies	237* (2015)
Highest partnership	Chris Gayle & Marlon Samuels (2nd wicket) v  Zimbabwe	372 (2015)
Most runs in a single world cup	Sachin Tendulkar	673 (2003)
Most hundreds	Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar	6 (2015–2019) 6 (1992–2011)
Most hundreds in a single world cup	Rohit Sharma	5 (2019)
Bowling
Most wickets	Glenn McGrath	71 (1996–2007)
Lowest average (min. 400 balls bowled)	Mitchell Starc	14.81 (2015–2019)
Best strike rate (min. 20 wickets)	Mohammed Shami	18.6 (2015–2019)
Best economy rate (min. 1000 balls bowled)	Andy Roberts	3.24 (1975–1983)
Best bowling figures	Glenn McGrath v  Namibia	7/15 (2003)
Most wickets in a tournament	Mitchell Starc	27 (2019)
Fielding
Most dismissals (wicket-keeper)	Kumar Sangakkara	54 (2003–2015)
Most catches (fielder)	Ricky Ponting	28 (1996–2011)
Team
Highest score	Australia v  Afghanistan	417/6 (2015)
Lowest score	Canada v  Sri Lanka	36 (2003)
Highest win %	Australia	74.73% (Played 94, Won 69)[82]
Most consecutive wins	Australia	27 (20 Jun 1999 – 19 Mar 2011, one N/R excluded)[83]
Most consecutive tournament wins	Australia	3 (1999–2007)

See also

• ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup
• ICC World Twenty20
• ICC Champions Trophy
• Women's Cricket World Cup

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