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Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) [3] is the quadrennial 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 ICC Men's T20 World Cup (formerly the ICC World Twenty20) is a biennial T20I cricket tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009 , and since 2010 it has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020.
Australia have also notably featured in 8 finals of the total 13 World Cups, including the four in a row (1996 to 2007). The furthest a non-Test playing nation has ever reached is the semi-finals, achieved by Kenya in the 2003 tournament. India is the first host country to have won the world cup on the home ground in 2011.
The highest match aggregate in a World Cup match came in the 2023 Cricket World Cup group stage match at HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala where Australia and New Zealand combined to score 771 runs in the match. [36] This broke the record of 754 runs set 21 days earlier in the same World Cup, between South Arica and Sri Lanka. [37]
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup has been hosted by the ICC in the T20I format since 2007. There have been nine editions of the tournament and India has participated in every edition. India have won it twice in 2007 and 2024 while also finishing as runners-up in 2014. [3]
The 1992 Cricket World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand. [56] A new format was introduced for the 1992 World Cup, with the group format scrapped in favour of a round-robin format. Each team played all the other eight teams in the tournament once and the top four teams at the end of the Round-Robin stage progressed to the semifinals. [57]
He also holds the record for most centuries in a single World Cup tournament having scored 5 centuries in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In cricket, a player is said to have completed a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. [1] The Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket