Cricket World Cup

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Image:Cwc.gif The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations (currently 10 nations), plus qualifiers. The next tournament will be held in the West Indies in 2007 and will consist of 16 teams.

1 History
2 Début of National Teams
3 Teams' Participations
4 West Indies 2007
5 Cricket World Cup tournaments
6 World Cup winners ranking
7 See also
8 External links

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History

The Cricket World Cup was first held in 1975 in England, with eight teams participating: Australia, England, the West Indies, Pakistan, India, and New Zealand (the six Test nations at the time), with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

The first three tournaments were held in England. N. K. P. Salve, President of the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) recounts the awarding of hosting rights for the 1987 World Cup in his book The Story of the Reliance Cup. According to Salve, he was given two tickets for the 1983 World Cup final at Lord's. When India unexpectedly qualified for the final, he requested two additional tickets from the MCC for friends who had just arrived from India. The MCC refused his request. Following this rebuff, Salve campaigned heavily amongst associate members of the International Cricket Council to form a bloc of voters, who ultimately awarded the hosting of the 1987 World Cup jointly to India and Pakistan.

Since 1987, the hosting of the World Cup been shared by the major cricket playing regions of the world - England, the Indian subcontinent, Australasia, Southern Africa and the West Indies. The tournaments have been based mainly in the local superpowers, though matches are held in all regional cricketing nations.

The World Cup is held in high esteem amongst fans, players, and administrators. Unlike many of the myriad of one-day tournaments held around the world each year, the World Cup has been the scene of some of the major developments in the way one-day cricket is played.

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Début of National Teams

¹ The East African team no longer exists, but at the time represented the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

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Teams' Participations

Includes appearances in the upcoming 2007 World Cup.

Team	Appearances	Record streak	First appearance	Latest appearance	Best result	Statistics
Team	Appearances	Record streak	First appearance	Latest appearance	Best result	Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR
Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	9	9	1975	2007	Champions (1987, 1999, 2003)	58	40	17	1	0
Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies	9	9	1975	2007	Champions (1975, 1979)	48	31	16	0	1
Image:Flag of India.svg India	9	9	1975	2007	Champions (1983)	55	31	23	0	1
Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan	9	9	1975	2007	Champions (1992)	53	29	22	0	2
Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka	9	9	1975	2007	Champions (1996)	46	17	27	1	1
Image:Flag of England.svg England	9	9	1975	2007	Runners-up (1979, 1987, 1992)	50	31	18	0	1
Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand	9	9	1975	2007	Semifinals (1975, 1979, 1992, 1999)	52	28	23	0	1
Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	7	7	1983	2007	Super Six (1999, 2003)	42	8	31	0	3
Image:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	5	5	1992	2007	Semifinals (1992, 1999)	30	19	9	2	0
Image:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	4	4	1996	2007	Semifinals (2003)	20	5	14	0	1
Image:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh	3	3	1999	2007	Round 1	11	2	8	0	1
Image:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	3	2	1979	2007	Round 1	9	1	8	0	0
Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands	3	2	1996	2007	Round 1	11	1	10	0	0
Image:Flag of Scotland.svg Scotland	2	1	1999	2007	Round 1	5	0	5	0	0
Image:Flag of Bermuda.svg Bermuda	1	1	2007	2007	-	0	0	0	0	0
Image:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland	1	1	2007	2007	-	0	0	0	0	0
Image:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia	1	1	2003	2003	Round 1	6	0	6	0	0
Image:Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates	1	1	1996	1996	Round 1	5	1	4	0	0
Image:East African Cricket Council.gif East Africa	1	1	1975	1975	Round 1	3	0	3	0	0

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West Indies 2007

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16 teams will contest the next Cricket World Cup finals to be held in the West Indies in Spring 2007.
These teams are the 10 Test cricket playing countries plus Kenya and the five qualifiers from the ICC Trophy held in Ireland in 2005: Scotland, Ireland, Bermuda, Canada, Netherlands.
The teams have been split into the following groups for the first round:

Pool I: Australia, South Africa, Netherlands, Scotland

Pool II: Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Bermuda

Pool III: New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada

Pool IV: West Indies, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ireland

The two top teams in each group will progress to a round robin second stage ("Super Eight") which is followed by knockout semi-finals and final.
The venues are as follows:

Preliminary Round

VENUE 1 (hosts Pakistan, West Indies's matches, plus Opening Ceremony and Opening Match): Jamaica

VENUE 2 (hosts England's matches): St. Lucia

VENUE 3 (hosts India's matches): Trinidad and Tobago

VENUE 4 (hosts Australia's matches): St. Kitts and Nevis

Quarter-finals

VENUE 5 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Antigua and Barbuda

VENUE 6 Grenada

VENUE 7 Guyana

VENUE 8 (hosts three of the biggest Super Eight matches): Barbados

Semi-finals

Same as VENUE 1: Jamaica

Same as VENUE 2: St. Lucia

Final

Same as VENUE 8: Barbados

The mascot of the 2007 Cricket World Cup is an orange raccoon-like creature called Mello wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt over a white vest and blue sneakers leaning on a cricket bat. According to the organisers "he's fun and friendly, he's on the go, he's cool as they come ... he's Mello".

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Cricket World Cup tournaments

Year	Host Nation	Final Venue	Winner	Result	Runner-up
Year	Host Nation	Final Venue	Final
1975 Details	England	Lord's, London	Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies 291 for 8 (60 overs)	WI won by 17 runs	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 274 all out (58.4 overs)
1979 Details	England	Lord's, London	Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies 286 for 9 (60 overs)	WI won by 92 runs	Image:Flag of England.svg England 191 all out (50 overs)
1983 Details	England	Lord's, London	Image:Flag of India.svg India 183 all out (54.4 overs)	Ind won by 43 runs	Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png West Indies 140 all out (52 overs)
1987 Details	India/Pakistan	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 253 for 5 (50 overs)	Aus won by 7 runs	Image:Flag of England.svg England 246 for 8 (50 overs)
1992 Details	Australia/New Zealand	MCG, Melbourne	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 249 for 6 (50 overs)	Pak won by 22 runs	Image:Flag of England.svg England 227 all out (49.2 overs)
1996 Details	India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Image:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 245 for 3 (46.2 overs)	SL won by 7 wickets	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 241 for 7 (50 overs)
1999 Details	England	Lord's, London	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 133 for 2 (20.1 overs)	Aus won by 8 wickets	Image:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 132 all out (39 overs)
2003 Details	South Africa/Zimbabwe/Kenya	Wanderers, Johannesburg	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 359 for 2 (50 overs)	Aus won by 125 runs	Image:Flag of India.svg India 234 all out (39.2 overs)