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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.
Since the 1987 Cricket World Cup, all matches have consisted of 50 overs per innings. [6] Top order batsman and former Australian captain Ricky Ponting holds several World Cup records. Playing in five tournaments between 1996 and 2011, he has played in more World Cup matches than any player with 46. [7]
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 2024–2026 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 is the second edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2, a cricket tournament which forms part of the 2027 Cricket World Cup qualification process. [1] As a result of the scrapping of Super League, this cycle of League 2 saw an increase from 7 to 8 teams. [2]
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]