The world cup of cricket is played every four years in which the world’s top cricket teams participate and it is organized by the ICC. In every World Cup, many new records are made and old records are broken. The process of these records has been going on since 1975 and will continue even further.
ICC Cricket World Cup Records
The Australia cricket team has won the World Cup title 5 times out of the 12 World Cups held so far and this is the record for most World Cup wins by a team. Australia won these titles in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015 World Cups.
India and West Indies hold the record for most World Cup wins after Australia. Both these teams have become world champions twice in the history of Cricket World Cup. West Indies won the World Cup in 1975 and 1979 and India in 1983 and 2011.
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored a total of 2278 runs in all the World Cups he has played, which is the record for most runs scored by a player in the World Cup.
- Australian bowler Glenn McGrath holds the record for taking 71 wickets in the World Cup. This bowler has been a member of Australia’s 3-time World Cup winning team.
- The highest score made by a batsman in a single match of the World Cup is 237 runs. New Zealand batsman Martin
- Guptill played this innings against Zimbabwe in the 2015 World Cup.
- The highest score made by any team in the World Cup is 417 runs. This score was made by the Australian team against Afghanistan in the 2015 World Cup.
- Chris Gayle holds the record for most sixes in Word Cups.
- Ireland holds the record for the highest number of runs successfully chased by a team in the World Cup. Ireland achieved this record in the 2011 World Cup when they successfully chased down England’s target of 329 runs.
Indian player Chetan Sharma holds the record of taking hat-trick for the first time in the World Cup. - Mohammed Shami is the second bowler from India to take a hat-trick in the World Cup. Shami took this hat-trick
- against Afghanistan in the 2019 World Cup.
Interesting Facts about Cricket World Cup
- In the 1975, 1979 and 1983 World Cups, all the matches were of 60-60 overs. All these three World Cups were held in England.
- For the first time in 1987, the World Cup was organized outside England in India and Pakistan.
- The 1992 World Cup was the first World Cup in which day-night matches were held and matches were played with the white ball instead of the red ball.
- For the first time in the 1992 World Cup, teams played in colored clothes instead of white clothes.
- England has organized the World Cup the most four times.
- Due to the racial policy, the South African team was able to participate in the fifth edition of the World Cup i.e. 1993 World Cup, not before.
- For the second time after 1992, the 2019 World Cup was played in a round-robin league. Round robin league means all the teams play matches with each other and there is no group.
- Despite being the father of cricket, England had to wait till 11 world cups to win the World Cup and finally won the
- World Cup trophy in 2019 by defeating New Zealand in a thrilling match.
