Cricket World Cup winners list: A list of all the past winners

Quite a number of teams have been on the Cricket World Cup winners' list. This is due to their exceptional offensive power and the leadership skills of their captains and coaches. Australia has won the tournament five times, India and the West Indies have won it twice each, and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and England have each won it once.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) organizes the event every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament. The tournament is one of the most watched sporting events in the world, and the ICC refers to it as the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar."

History of Cricket matches

Canada and the United States met for the first international cricket match on September 1844. However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 and was between Australia and England.

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The two teams then began to compete on a regular basis in subsequent years. As a result, the series between the two was referred to as The Ashes.

Who won most Ashes series?

Formerly, the series consisted of five Tests hosted by both teams once every two years. The series is considered to be held by the team that most recently won it. If the series is drawn, the current holder of the Ashes retains the trophy.

There have been 72 Ashes series. Australia has won 34, England 32, while six series have been drawn.

Later in 1889, South Africa was also granted Test status. The representative teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition.

The game eventually ended as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games. During the tournament, Great Britain won the gold medal after defeating France.

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Cricket world cup winners list and captains

The Cricket World Cup was held for the first time in England, in June 1975. In fact, the first three editions of the tournament were held in England before countries hosting the tournament on an unofficial rotation system began with the 1987 edition. Since the tournament's inception, 14 ICC members have hosted at least one match of the marquee event.

The list below shows the winners of the tournament since the year 1975, as well as the runners-up and hosts for each year the event was held:

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Which country has the most Cricket World Cup wins?

According to sources, Australia is the competition's most successful team, winning five tournaments (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015) and finishing second twice. The West Indies won the first tournament in 1975 and the second edition in 1979, making them the only team to do so twice. Australia has won three games in a row (1999, 2003 and 2007).

England is the defending champions of the Cricket World Cup. They beat New Zealand in an epic 2019 final at the Lord's on boundary count after a Super Over.

The list of Cricket World Cup winner captains

We are providing you with this list so you can easily see which team won the World Cup in which year and under which captaincy. This is because captains have made significant contributions to bringing the World Cup to their home countries.

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When is the next Cricket World Cup?

The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup will be the 13th edition of the tournament, hosted by India in October and November 2023. The competition will be held entirely in India for the first time.

Three previous editions - 1987, 1996, and 2011 - were partially hosted there. The tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 9 February to 26 March 2023; however, in July 2020, it was announced that the tournament would be moved to an October-November window due to the disruption of the qualification schedule caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2027 World Cup will be held in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.

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How do teams qualify for the world cup?

The current format includes a qualification phase that lasts three years to determine which teams advance to the tournament phase. During the tournament phase, ten teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation, compete for the title for over a month at venues throughout the host country. The format for the 2027 edition will be altered to accommodate a 14-team final competition.

Getting to the cricket world cup winners' list is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. All the teams that have won the cricket world cup have been on the full members list. However, the best result by a non-full-member team came in 2003 when Kenya made the semi-finals.

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