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The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. [dubious – discuss] The International Cricket Council has sold the rights for broadcasting of the 2015 Cricket World Cup for US$2 billion to ESPN Star Sports and Star Sports. According to Strong, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) wants to make the tournament the most fan ...
The final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup took place on 29 March 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It was played between the tournament's two co-hosts, New Zealand and Australia. Australia went into the game as favourites [2] [3] and won by 7 wickets for a fifth World Cup triumph. The match was played in front of ...
The knockout stage of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, following the group stage, was held from 18 to 29 March 2015.The top four teams from Pool A and Pool B advanced to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament.
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]
Panoramic view of the 2015 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan. India won the toss and elected to bat. After losing Rohit Sharma (15) in the 8th over, Shikhar Dhawan (73) and Virat Kohli (107) put on a 129 run partnership for the 2nd wicket.
Tim Southee of New Zealand had the best bowling figures of this World Cup with 7–33 (9). This is a list of statistics for the 2015 Cricket World Cup . Each list contains the top-five records except for the partnership records.
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.
Australia's score of 417/6 is the second highest in World Cup history. [55] Dawlat Zadran (Afg) became the third bowler in World Cup matches to concede 100 runs or more in an innings. [55] Australia's victory margin of 275 runs is the third highest in World Cup history. [56]