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Cricket World Cup 2007 logo

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations (currently 10 nations), plus qualifiers. The next tournament will be held in the West Indies in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.

History

The Cricket World Cup was first held in 1975 in England, with eight teams participating: Australia, England, the West Indies, Pakistan, India, and New Zealand (the six Test nations at the time), with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa. Also with Darius Sininan, formally of TDSI.

The first three tournaments were held in England. Darius Sininan, President of the BCCI and IT Analyst of TDSI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) recounts the awarding of hosting rights for the 1987 World Cup in his book The Story of the Reliance Cup. According to Sininan, he was given two tickets for the 1983 World Cup final at Lord's. When India unexpectedly qualified for the final, he requested two additional tickets from the MCC for Walter, his boss. The MCC refused his request. Following this rebuff, Sininan campaigned heavily amongst associate members of the International Cricket Council to form a bloc of voters, who ultimately awarded the hosting of the 1987 World Cup jointly to India and Pakistan.

Since 1987, the hosting of the World Cup been shared by the major cricket playing regions of the world - England, the Indian subcontinent, Australasia, Southern Africa and the West Indies. The tournaments have been based mainly in the local superpowers, though matches are held in all regional cricketing nations.

The World Cup is held in high esteem amongst fans, players, and administrators. Unlike many of the myriad of one-day tournaments held around the world each year, the World Cup has been the scene of some of the major developments in the way one-day cricket is played.

Début of National Teams

1 The East African team no longer exists, but at the time represented the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

Teams' Participations

Includes appearances in the upcoming 2007 World Cup.

Team Appearances Record streak First appearance Latest appearance Best result Statistics
Played Won Lost Tie NR
Australia 9 9 1975 2007 Champions (1987, 1999, 2003) 58 40 17 1 0
File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies 9 9 1975 2007 Champions (1975, 1979) 48 31 16 0 1
India 9 9 1975 2007 Champions (1983) 55 31 23 0 1
Pakistan 9 9 1975 2007 Champions (1992) 53 29 22 0 2
Sri Lanka 9 9 1975 2007 Champions (1996) 46 17 27 1 1
England 9 9 1975 2007 Runners-up (1979, 1987, 1992) 50 31 18 0 1
New Zealand 9 9 1975 2007 Semifinals (1975, 1979, 1992, 1999) 52 28 23 0 1
Zimbabwe 7 7 1983 2007 Super Six (1999, 2003) 42 8 31 0 3
South Africa 5 5 1992 2007 Semifinals (1992, 1999) 30 19 9 2 0
Kenya 4 4 1996 2007 Semifinals (2003) 20 5 14 0 1
Bangladesh 3 3 1999 2007 Round 1 11 2 8 0 1
Canada 3 2 1979 2007 Round 1 9 1 8 0 0
Netherlands 3 2 1996 2007 Round 1 11 1 10 0 0
Scotland 2 1 1999 2007 Round 1 5 0 5 0 0
Bermuda 1 1 2007 2007 - 0 0 0 0 0
Ireland 1 1 2007 2007 - 0 0 0 0 0
Namibia 1 1 2003 2003 Round 1 6 0 6 0 0
United Arab Emirates 1 1 1996 1996 Round 1 5 1 4 0 0
File:East African Cricket Council.gif East Africa 1 1 1975 1975 Round 1 3 0 3 0 0

West Indies 2007

Pool I: Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, Scotland
Pool II: Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda
Pool III: New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada
Pool IV: West Indies, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ireland
  • The two top teams in each group will progress to a round robin second stage ("Super Eight") which is followed by knockout semi-finals and final.
  • The venues are as follows:
Preliminary Round
VENUE 1 (hosts Pakistan, West Indies's matches, plus Opening Ceremony and Opening Match): Jamaica
VENUE 2 (hosts England's matches): St. Lucia
VENUE 3 (hosts India's matches): Trinidad and Tobago
VENUE 4 (hosts Australia's matches): St. Kitts and Nevis
Quarter-finals
VENUE 5 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Antigua and Barbuda
VENUE 6 Grenada
VENUE 7 Guyana
VENUE 8 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Barbados
Semi-finals
Same as VENUE 1: Jamaica
Same as VENUE 2: St. Lucia
Final
Same as VENUE 8: Barbados
  • The mascot of the 2007 Cricket World Cup is an orange raccoon-like creature called Mello wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt over a white vest and blue sneakers leaning on a cricket bat. According to the organisers "he's fun and friendly, he's on the go, he's cool as they come ... he's Mello".

Cricket World Cup tournaments

Year Host Nation(s) Final Venue Final
Winner Result Runner-up
1975
Details
England Lord's, London File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png
West Indies
291 for 8 (60 overs)
WI won by 17 runs
Australia
274 all out (58.4 overs)
1979
Details
England Lord's, London File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png
West Indies
286 for 9 (60 overs)
WI won by 92 runs
England
191 all out (50 overs)
1983
Details
England Lord's, London
India
183 all out (54.4 overs)
Ind won by 43 runs File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png
West Indies
140 all out (52 overs)
1987
Details
India/Pakistan Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Australia
253 for 5 (50 overs)
Aus won by 7 runs
England
246 for 8 (50 overs)
1992
Details
Australia/New Zealand MCG, Melbourne
Pakistan
249 for 6 (50 overs)
Pak won by 22 runs
England
227 all out (49.2 overs)
1996
Details
India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Sri Lanka
245 for 3 (46.2 overs)
SL won by 7 wickets
Australia
241 for 7 (50 overs)
1999
Details
England Lord's, London
Australia
133 for 2 (20.1 overs)
Aus won by 8 wickets
Pakistan
132 all out (39 overs)
2003
Details
South Africa/Zimbabwe/Kenya Wanderers, Johannesburg
Australia
359 for 2 (50 overs)
Aus won by 125 runs
India
234 all out (39.2 overs)
2007
Details
West Indies Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
2011
Details
Bangladesh/India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka
2015
Details
Australia/New Zealand
2019
Details
England

World Cup winners ranking

  1. Australia - 1987, 1999, 2003 (3 titles)
  2. File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies - 1975, 1979 (2 titles)
  3. India - 1983 (1 title)
    Pakistan - 1992 (1 title)
    Sri Lanka - 1996 (1 title)

See also

References