FACTS ABOUT WORLD CUP TILL TODAY
- World Cup 2023 is being hosted by India from 5 October to 19 November.
- India, South Africa, England and New Zealand are being included for World Cup 2023.
- All the teams are playing nine matches each. A total of 10 teams are participating in the Cricket World Cup 2023.
- Eight teams had already qualified, while the teams of Sri Lanka and Netherlands have reached here after reaching the final of the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup Qualifying Tournament.
- First season of the Cricket World Cup was played in 1975 and this historic tournament is about to complete 50 years.
- Australia has dominated the ICC World Cup. Australia won its first World Cup title in 1987, but since then Australia has won a total of five ICC Men’s World Cup titles. 7.Between 1996 and 2015, Australia has reached the finals of the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup five out of six times.
- Australia has won a hat-trick of World Cup titles in 1999, 2003 and 2007.
- Second most successful teams of the World Cup are India and West Indies. Both have won two ICC Men’s World Cup titles each.
- West Indies won two consecutive World Cups in 1975 and 1979.
- while India won the 1983 and 2011 World Cup titles.