The primary men's cricket World Cup was held in England in 1975, four years after the initially perceived one-day global had been played in 1971, on the fifth day of a washed out test in the middle of Australia and England in Melbourne.
In the realm of men's ODI cricket, ICC World Cup is viewed as the head competition, seeing support and viewership from all over the globe. Its history goes once more to the year 1975, when the inaugural competition was played on England soil, with the members being the six Test-playing countries at the time i.e. Australia, England, the West Indies, New Zealand, India, and Pakistan, alongside Sri Lanka and a composite group from East Africa. The initial three occasions of the opposition were held in England and authoritatively known as the Prudential Cup, after the patron - Prudential plc.
1975 England:
The primary World Cup, A. K. A. the Prudential Cup Trophy, had matches of 60 overs every innings, with each over including 6 balls. The competition embodied daytime matches, played in the conventional structure, and was won by West Indies (who vanquished Australia in the finals). The Second World Cup saw the presentation of ICC Trophy, held with the end goal of selecting non-Test playing groups for the World Cup. In the first ICC Trophy, Sri Lanka and Canada rose as the champs. On the other hand, the World Cup went, by and by, to the West Indies group, who won the last match in the wake of crushing the hosts i.e. Britain.
Fine climate favored the first worldwide one-day competition building up and finally finishing in a life-changing last between West Indies and Australia at Lord's. Hitting the ball with loose fierceness, West Indies' chief Clive Lloyd tamed an assault headed by the pace and rage of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson to score 102 from 85 balls.
He was capably aided by the 39-year-old Rohan Kanhai, a late trade for his harmed contemporary Garfield Sobers. Kanhai contributed 55 to West Indies' 291 for eight from their 60 overs.
Australia chief Ian Chappell drove a vivacious answer with 62 preceding he succumbed to one of three runouts effected by the electric reflexes of Viv Richards. Lillee and Thomson included 41 for the last wicket before Australia were at last released for 274 at nightfall on the longest day of the year.
1979 England:
In a meeting after the Second ODI World Cup, the International Cricket Conference chose to make the opposition a quadrennial occasion i.e. an occasion that future held just once in four years.
Peace was handled with Australian ambitious person Kerry Packer, whose agitator World Series had part world cricket, without further ado before the second World Cup. Australia still picked not to choose any of the players who had marked for Packer however West Indies did and a group who were to govern world cricket all through the following decade wrecked England in the last.
Richards, then the world's number one batsman, stroked an imperious 138 and Collis King struck a hurricane 86. In spite of the fact that England skipper Mike Brearley and Geoff Boycott put on 129 for the first wicket, they took up 38 of the 60 overs. After their rejections, the goliath Joel Garner went through the center request with a progression of unplayable yorkers to take five wickets in 11 balls and give his group triumph by 92 runs.
1983 England:
Along these lines, the following competition was held in 1983, facilitated via England and won by the Indian group (in the wake of overcoming the past champions - West Indies - in the last match). It was in this World Cup just that the fielding circle was presented, 30 yards (27 m) far from the stumps, in which four fieldsmen must be display at all times.
Richards appeared goal on winning the last against underdogs India all alone after West Indies had been set an unassuming 184 to win. He struck seven limits in his 33 from 28 balls before top-edging a snare which India chief Kapil Dev, fleeing from the pitch towards the limit at mid-wicket, coolly gathered.
West Indies imploded from there on, with India recording a popular 43-run triumph which was to have significant ramifications at home where one-day cricket immediately superseded the test diversion as the most prominent manifestation of the game.
1987 India and Pakistan:
The fourth ICC Cricket World Cup was held in 1987, with India and Pakistan playing the hosts. The competition saw two new events in the first place, it was the first occasion when that the matches were played outside England and second, the overs were diminished from 60 to 50 every innings. The Australian group won this time, crushing England by 7 runs in the last (this is, till now, the closest edge in World Cup last history).
England gave off an impression of being cruising to triumph in the last against Australia at Kolkata's Eden Gardens when Mike Gatting attempted an opposite breadth off contradicting skipper Allan Border's first conveyance and hurled a basic catch.
1992 Australia and New Zealand:
Australia and New Zealand facilitated the fifth World Cup, in which Pakistan rose as the victor, in the wake of vanquishing England. This competition likewise saw the presentation of hued attire, white balls and day/night matches, alongside a change in the fielding confinements.
Broadly urged by their skipper Imran Khan to "battle like cornered tigers," Pakistan bounced back from inescapable end in the opening round to annihilation England in the last at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Imran, the best player to rise up out of Pakistan, scored 72 batting at number three in his last match for his nation. He additionally took the last wicket after his protege Wasim Akram had cleared out Ian Botham, Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis.
1996 India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka:
The Indian subcontinent at the end of the day turned into the host of World Cup in 1996, when the matches were played in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The last match was played in Lahore and saw Sri Lanka developing as the victor, crushing Australia by seven wickets.
Sri Lanka, with the dangerous Sananth Jayasuriya at the highest point of the request and Muttiah Muralitharan entrancing contradicting batsmen with his gigantic forces of twist, demonstrated commendable champions.
The Sri Lankans had showed before the competition that they could pursue down aggregates beforehand thought inaccessible and they abused the fielding limitations toward the begin of the innings by assaulting from the first ball.
Aravinda da Silva, their most fulfilled batsman, scored a guaranteed unbeaten century in the seven-wicket win over Australia in the last in Lahore.
1999 England & Wales, Ireland and Scotland:
The following competition was composed, at the end of the day, in England, with a few matches likewise being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands. The last match, played in the middle of Australia and Pakistan, saw the previous asserting its second win. Australia made no challenge of the last against Pakistan, taking scarcely 4-1/2 hours to overpower the 1992 champions.
Australia, the world's best test side, were in risk of disposal in the gathering stages and again in the Super Six round where 120 not out from commander Steve Waugh, dropped on 56 by Herschelle Gibbs, guaranteed triumph over South Africa.
At that point, in a semi-last between the same groups, South Africa required one and only run with four balls staying in the last over with their best one-day batsman Lance Klusner on strike. A panicky runout tied an epic match which put Australia through by ideals by beating South Africa in the past round.
2003 South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya:
The eighth World Cup saw the quantity of taking part groups increment to fourteen, from twelve; Kenya's triumphs over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe; and relinquishment by New Zealand (as a result of security reasons). The deed was rehashed by Australia in the World Cup, held in 2003, when it beat India by 125 runs.
Australia's new one-day skipper Ricky Ponting struck eight sixes in his 140 not out in the last against India as his group scaled new statures with a persistent 125-run triumph. The Australians turned into the first group to win three World Cups and took their unbeaten run in the competition to 16.
2007 West Indies:
The ninth ODI World Cup was facilitated by the West Indies. With this, it turned into the first such competition to be facilitated on each of the six populated mainlands. The opposition saw various firsts. It was the first run through Bangladesh advanced to the second round and it was the first run through Ireland played in the World Cup (and even proceeded to the primary ODI table). The competition was won by Australia, enlisting its fourth win (crushing Sri Lanka in the last match).
Adam Gilchrist bettered Ponting's record count in a last with a regularly venturesome 149. Two other Australian goliaths, Matthew Hayden and Glenn McGrath, were the main run-scorer and wicket-taker individually.
The competition was dominated by the passing of famous Pakistan mentor Bob Woolmer at 58 years old in his lodging room in Jamaica after his group had surprisingly lost to Ireland. Police propelled a homicide examination which drove no place and a jury later gave back an open decision.
2011 India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh:
The tenth ICC Cricket World Cup was facilitated by India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. 2011 WC was won by India who vanquished Sri Lanka by 6 wickets. India turned into the first country to win a world glass last on home soil.
Mahela Jayawardene scored an unbeaten 103 in Sri Lanka's testing 274-6 however India recouped from a moderate begin to win by six wickets with 10 balls to extra with Gautam Gambhir making 97 and India's commander Mahendra Singh Dhoni an unbeaten 91.
Pakistan were likewise chosen as one of four co-has however were stripped of their matches as a result of security reasons for alarm taking after the assault on the visiting Sri Lankan group in 2009.
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