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The hosts for the 50-over World Cup including T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy were selected through a competitive bidding process overseen by a sub-committee chaired by Sourav Ganguly, former president of the BCCI, Ricky Skerritt, president of Cricket West Indies and Martin Snedden. [14] [15] 2027 Host: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Kenya
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. [23] The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time.
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]
Host India, five-time champion Australia and long-time title contenders South Africa and New Zealand navigated the five-week first phase of the Cricket World Cup to reach the semifinals. When the ...
The 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the 14th edition of the Cricket World Cup. It is scheduled to be played in South Africa , Zimbabwe , and Namibia in October and November 2027. This will be the second time that South Africa and Zimbabwe will have co-hosted the tournament, after the 2003 edition , while Namibia will host it for the first time.
In November 2021 as part of the 2024–2031 men's hosts cycle, the ICC announced that India and Sri Lanka will co-host the Men's T20 World Cup in 2026. This will be the first time India and Sri Lanka hosting a T20 World Cup together. [5] Sri Lanka first hosted the T20 World Cup in 2012 and India hosted in 2016. [6]
Meg Lanning's Australia, long the benchmark in women's cricket, will bid for a record-extending fifth T20 World Cup title after a rocky ride to their sixth final. Beaten by India in their ...
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial T20I cricket tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council. It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009 , and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020.