World cup cricket 2023

The 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup will be the 13th edition of the men’s Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be hosted by India during October and November 2023

This is the first time that India will host the competition completely. Three previous editions were partially hosted by India in 1987, 1996, and 2011

There are total 13 stadium in India where Cricket World Cup 2023 can be played.10 teams would participate and total 48 matches would be played in the ICC World Cup 2023.

In 1975 the first Cricket World Cup was contested in England as a series of one-day matches of 60 overs per side. It was held outside England, in India and Pakistan, for the first time in 1987. The 1987 contest also saw the number of overs per side reduced to 50. In 2007 Australia became the first team to win three consecutive World Cup tournaments.

History The following is a list of the winning country and runner up for each Cricket World Cup.

In 2007 Australia became the first team to win three consecutive World Cup tournaments. There are 12 World Cup tournaments being held till date. Australia is the most success country which won 5 World Cups. India & West Indies are the only two countries which have won the world cup 2 times each. India won the World Cup in 1983 and 2011, while West Indies won in 1975 and 1979. The last world Cup held in 2019 was won by England

Do you Know ?

1. England is the only nation which has hosted the most number of World Cups (4) the next is India and Pakistan (2-both jointly)
2. The 1987 World Cup was the first-ever world cup which was held outside England.
3. The 1992 World Cup was the first-ever world cup which was hosted by the Southern Hemisphere countries.
4. The 1992 World Cup was the first-ever world cup, where white balls were used and Day and Night games were played with color clothing.
5. Because of the racial policy in South Africa, they could participate in the World Cup only in its 5^th edition in 1992.
6. Sri Lanka became the host for the first time in 1996 when they co-hosted the world cup in 1996.
7. Chetan Sharma of India is the first bowler to claim a hat trick in a world cup (1987).
8. Australia is the only team that has won 4 world cups in which three world cup wins came in a row (1997, 2003 & 2007).
9. After losing a round-robin game against Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup, Australia lost a game in a World Cup against the same team in the 2011 World Cup only.
10. Clive Lloyd and Ricky Ponting are the only captains who have won the world cup twice. Lloyd in 1975 and 1979 and Ponting in 2003 and 2007.
11. Sachin Tendulkar of India is the highest run-getter in the World Cup history; he has scored 2, 278 runs in 6 world cups.
12. Glenn McGrath of Australia has claimed the highest number of wickets in the history of world cups which is standing at 72.
13. Shahid Afridi of Pakistan has a unique record of taking four wickets or more wickets in a match in four world cups.
14. The venues for the World Cup finals are Lord’s (1975, 1979, 1983, 1999), Eden Gardens (1987), Melbourne Cricket Stadium (1992), Gaddafi Stadium (1996), The Wanderers (2003), Kensington Oval (2007) and Wankhede Stadium (2011).
15. Back in 2015, it was after 23 years that New Zealand and Australia jointly hosted the cricket world cup. Earlier, it was in 1992 when both the countries hosted this world cup.
16. As in 2015, these matches were played in Australia, there was a huge time gap between each of the matches. There were times when this gap would extend up to 6 hours.
17. It was in the year 2015 when Amitabh Bachchan created history during the India and Pakistan match. He was on the commentator’s seat with the cricket legends Kapil Dev and Rahul Dravid. This was Bachchan’s debut as a commentator in the cricket world and also the world cup.
18. In the 2015 world cup, Afghanistan’s cricket team made their much-awaited debut and were included in the Pool A with teams like Bangladesh, England, etc.
19. The 2019 cricket world cup witnessed the round-robin format. Here, every team got the opportunity to play with the other teams. This format was again adopted after the 1992 world cup.
20. It would be quite surprising for you to know that 2019 was the only year when Zimbabwe was not part of the world cup in all these glorious years of ICC world cup.
21. There were only 10 participating teams in the 2019 world cup. This was the first when only these many teams participated 
22.  In the year 2019, England made the record of hosting the world cup for the most number of times, i.e; five times.