From the first World Cup in 1975 up to the 2019 World Cup, the majority of teams taking part qualified automatically. [49] The tournament was further expanded in 1996, with two groups of six teams. [52] Within each group, the teams played each other in a round-robin format. The top four teams from each group qualified for the Quarter finals (indicated in green). A national Sunday League was formed in 1969. Fourteen national cricket teams took part in this tournament, including 10 full members and four associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). [28], On 1 June 2010 the first tranche of tickets were put on sale after a meeting of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. Legal notice | [43] England defeated the defending champions, Australia, in the second semi-final to play New Zealand in the final. The number of participants remained at fourteen. [31], The final was watched live by 135 million people in India,[32][33] as recorded by the ratings agencies TAM and aMap, including 67.6 million Indian cable and satellite viewers. Limited Overs Shane Warne Cricket S.Warne Cricket '99 Willow & Wicket World Cricket World Cricket 99 World Cricket 2000 World Cricket 2001, [Affiliate Program] The current trophy was created for the 1999 championships, and was the first permanent prize in the tournament's history. The Sinhala version, "Sinha Udaane", was adapted by Sri Lankan R&B and hip hop artist Ranidu Lankage and composed by lyricist Shehan Galahitiyawa. [40] He was unveiled at a function in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 2 April 2010,[41] and his name was revealed on 2 August 2010 after an online competition conducted by the ICC in the last week of July.[42]. In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. The ESPN-Star Sports channel is doing whatever it can to recoup the billions it has spent to get the TV rights of the World Cup. The current trophy is made from silver and gilt, and features a golden globe held up by three silver columns. A look at the top five wicket-keepers to appear at the ICC Cricket World Cup. plays for Australia. The ICC also organised a qualifying tournament in South Africa to determine the four Associate teams who would participate in the 2011 event. Australia defeated New Zealand by seven wickets in the final at Melbourne to lift the World Cup for the fifth time. Exciting run out sequence with third umpire decision for those close calls. [7] Since then, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the triangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.[8]. [11][19], India and Pakistan jointly hosted the 1987 tournament, the first time that the competition was held outside England. [46][47] For statistical purposes, these matches are not considered to be One Day Internationals. [28][29] Twelve teams contested the World Cup. I.Botham's Cricket I.Botham's I.C. [11] The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed that the vote of the West Indies Cricket Board was decisive, as the Asian bid had the support of South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as the four bidding countries. Seven teams have competed in every tournament, six of which have won the title. Min odds, bet and payment method exclusions apply. [38] It employs an array of Indian rhythms combined with elements of rock and hip hop. statistics of all 18 players in each of the nine international countries plus a Super The following 14 warm-up matches were played before the World Cup started. Other countries which have achieved or equalled their best World Cup results while co-hosting the tournament are New Zealand as finalists in 2015, Zimbabwe who reached the Super Six in 2003, and Kenya as semi-finalists in 2003. 2 Venue for postponed 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup confirmed; 3 Afghanistan hammer highest T20 total; 4 Suzie Bates ruled out of Australia series with injury concerns; 5 ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2020 postponed; Add Fixtures to … [4] The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka,[5] and the tournament was played between 19 February and 2 April. It even still ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (ICC Trophy) ... 2001; 1997; 1994; 1990; 1986; 1982; 1979; Super Sixes. is identical to last years version with the same screenshots and features. Some cricket fans are waiting for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world’s most lucrative T20 league, to kick off just days after the World Cup final. Pavillion Cricket P.C. 96 I.C.C. The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979. For the 2011 World Cup, the ICC World Cricket League replaced the past pre-qualifying processes; and the name "ICC Trophy" was changed to "ICC World Cup Qualifier". [59] The 2011 Cricket World Cup final was televised in over 200 countries to over 2.2 billion television viewers. [14] Roy Fredricks of West Indies was the first batsmen who got hit-wicket in ODI during the 1975 World Cup final. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. The first qualifying tournament being the ICC Trophy;[46] later the process expanding with pre-qualifying tournaments. The West Indies (1975 and 1979) and Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) are the only teams to have won consecutive titles. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. The first World Cup was organised in England in June 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years earlier. Generally, according to the cricket experts, the World Cup has so far lived up to the expectations. India was crowned champions after upsetting the West Indies by 43 runs in the final. World XI team. Check Canada vs United States of America, ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier (ICC Trophy) 2001, %{matchNum} Match scoreboard, ball by ball commentary, updates only on ESPNcricinfo.com… ", Muthuraman from Chennai echoes the same: "I only watch India's matches, but one can’t escape the World Cup. Until the 2015 World Cup this was mostly through having Full Membership of the ICC, and for the 2019 World Cup this was mostly through ranking position in the ICC ODI Championship. Cricket Challenge J.Rhodes W.C. Cricket Lara '96 M.Vaughan's C.M. [27], In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands. The ICC announced all the venues in Mumbai on 2 November 2009. [11] The West Indies won the first two tournaments, Australia has won five, India has won two, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have each won once. Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate. [23] Pakistan proposed that South Asia host the 2015 World Cup and that Australia and New Zealand host the 2011 event, but this option did not find favour with their co-hosts and was not implemented. We use cookies to improve our service for you. Therefore the match was tied, but the World Cup was won by England, owing to a greater boundary count than New Zealand in their respective batting innings.[44][45]. However, a separate Women's Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men's tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held as early as 1912, when a triangular tournament of Test matches was played between Australia, England and South Africa. No part of these pages may not be copied without the permission of The top four teams from each group proceeded to the knock out stage consisting of quarter-finals, semi-finals and ultimately the final.[55]. The opening ceremony was held in the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 February 2011, two days before the first match. [30], The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. [10], In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket (WSC) competition. The first One-Day International match was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd. In the tournament phase, 10 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation, compete for the title at venues within the host nation over about a month. It has been nearly a month since the ICC World Cup 2011 started. [66][67], Successive World Cup tournaments have generated increasing media attention as One-Day International cricket has become more established. From the 1987 tournament onwards, hosting has been shared between countries under an unofficial rotation system, with fourteen ICC members having hosted at least one match in the tournament. The Man of the Match award in the final of the competition has been awarded to:[77], This article is about the men's 50-over tournament. [citation needed], The extra time needed for the Asian bid had weakened its prospects, but when the time came to vote, Asia won the hosting rights by ten votes to three. (18.02.2011), © 2020 Deutsche Welle | Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed on a revised format for the 2011 World Cup, identical to that of the 1996 World Cup, except that there would be 14 teams instead of 12. South Africa was admitted to Test status in 1889. [8] Pakistan was to have held 14 matches, including one semi-final. Winning the Man of the Match in the final is logically noteworthy, as this indicates the player deemed to have played the biggest part in the World Cup final. [36] Jamaican police had initially launched a murder investigation into Woolmer's death but later confirmed that he died of heart failure. ICC Cricket World Cup 2001 Team point level status updates and Team standing updates ICC Cricket World Cup 2001 is now reached on 17th day match. The columns, shaped as stumps and bails, represent the three fundamental aspects of cricket: batting, bowling and fielding, while the globe characterises a cricket ball. It is a sequel to World Cricket 2000 and has been written using Macromedia. The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa. The four teams in each group played each other in the round-robin group stage, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals. England are the current champions after winning the 2019 edition. Most prefer to watch if their home country is playing. The decision was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on 20 April 2010. [citation needed] On 28 April 2009, however, the ICC announced that matches originally intended to be played in Pakistan would be reallocated. With South Africa returning in the fifth tournament in 1992 as a result of the end of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals. [11] The New Zealand government had given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the tournament, following political discussions in the country over whether their cricket team should be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005. All rights reserved. Each of the first four tournaments was played by eight teams, divided into two groups of four. While it remains hard to believe that a month has already passed since the 2001 ICC Trophy tournament was completed, the event will, assuredly, be far more difficult to forget.