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The Sri Lanka cricket team has reached the World Cup final three times. Winning in 1996 under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga and finishing as runners-up in the 2007 & 2011 World Cups. Sri Lanka has also reached the Semi Final at the 2003 World Cup and the Quarter Final at the 2015 World Cup.
Sri Lanka, as a co-host of the 1996 World Cup, was the first host to win the tournament, though the final was held in Pakistan. [18] India won in 2011 as host and was the first team to win a final played in their own country. [99] Australia and England repeated the feat in 2015 and 2019 respectively. [49]
Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the only cricketer to have taken three ODI hat-tricks. A hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets on consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 50 occurrences in 4546 matches since the first ODI match between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The ...
At the very next match against Canada, [83] Sri Lanka again involved for a World record, where Canada total of 36 was the lowest total in World Cup history and lowest in all ODIs. Sri Lanka comfortably won the match by 9 wickets. [84] All these World Record matches next became a desperate sad for all the Sri Lankans.
East Africa (1975 World Cup) Sri Lanka (1975 World Cup, 1979 World Cup) Canada (1979 World Cup, 2003 World Cup, 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off) Zimbabwe (1983 World Cup, 1987 World Cup, 1992 World Cup) Bangladesh (1986 Asia Cup, 1988 Asia Cup, 1990 Austral-Asia Cup, 1990 Asia Cup, 1995 Asia Cup, 1997 Asia Cup)
The 2019 Cricket World Cup Final was the first One Day International to go to a Super Over. [58] The Super Over was also tied, so the match was determined by boundary countback. [59] Because England had scored more boundaries in both the main game and the Super Over, they were declared winners of the match, and therefore the World Cup. [59] (It ...
James Franklin of New Zealand's strike rate of 387.50 during his 31* off 8 balls against Canada during 2011 Cricket World Cup is the world record for highest strike rate in an innings. Andre Russell holds the top position for a West Indies player with his innings of 42* off 13 balls against Pakistan during the 2015 Cricket World Cup. [101]
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]