The ICC world events

The inaugural men's World Cup was staged in England in 1975 under the name the Prudential Cup, the insurer's sponsorship giving the tournament its early title.

Source: ICC, Cricket World Cup history · applied

Matches in 1975 were 60 overs an innings, played in daylight in traditional white clothing with a red ball, the limited-overs form of the era.

Source: Wisden Almanack, 1976 · recall

Clive Lloyd's 102 lifted West Indies to 291 for 8 and, though Australia chased hard, five of their batters were run out, three of them by Viv Richards, and West Indies held on to win the first final by 17 runs.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1975 World Cup final · applied

Richards made 138 not out and Collis King 86 as West Indies reached 286 for 9, and England were then bowled out for 194 to lose by 92 runs.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1979 World Cup final · recall

India were bowled out for 183, but Mohinder Amarnath and Madan Lal took three wickets each to reduce West Indies to 140 all out, a 43-run win over the two-time champions.

Source: ICC, 1983 World Cup final · applied

West Indies had won in 1975 and 1979 and were favourites again, so India's victory broke their grip on the trophy and is often credited with spreading the one-day game in Asia.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, on the 1983 World Cup · applied

The 1992 tournament was the first with coloured clothing, white balls and floodlit day-night matches; formal qualifiers and split divisions belong to later editions.

Source: ICC, Cricket World Cup history · recall

Grounds in India and Pakistan had fewer daylight hours than an English summer, so 60-over games risked running out of light and the innings was set at 50 overs, where it has stayed.

Source: Wisden Almanack, 1988 · applied

England were 135 for 2 chasing 254 when Gatting reverse-swept his first ball from Border to the wicketkeeper; Australia held on to win by seven runs for a first title.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1987 World Cup final · recall

Imran Khan led Pakistan to 249 for 6 and the bowlers dismissed England for 227, a 22-run win in the last one-day international he played.

Source: ICC, 1992 World Cup final · applied

De Silva made 107 not out and took three wickets as Sri Lanka overhauled 242 at the Gaddafi Stadium to win their only World Cup, by seven wickets.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1996 World Cup final · recall

Jayasuriya and Kaluwitharana were sent out to hit over the top during the opening restrictions, a break from the cautious starts of the time that changed how sides used the first 15 overs.

Source: Wisden Almanack, 1997 · applied

Australia knocked off the runs for the loss of two wickets inside 21 overs at Lord's, sealing a second world title with a completely dominant display.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1999 World Cup final · recall

With scores tied on 213, Allan Donald was run out off the fourth-last ball; the tie put Australia into the final because they had finished above South Africa in the Super Six table.

Source: ICC, 1999 World Cup · applied

Ponting hit 140 not out from 121 balls as Australia made 359 for 2, then India were bowled out for 234 to end an unbeaten campaign.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2003 World Cup final · recall

Gilchrist made 149 and Australia's 281 for 4 was enough under Duckworth-Lewis; officials wrongly had the sides return for a final over in the gloom, but the 53-run win stood.

Source: ICC, 2007 World Cup final · recall

Dhoni's unbeaten 91 carried India past Sri Lanka's 274 with ten balls left in Mumbai, the first time the host nation had won a World Cup final.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2011 World Cup final · applied

Australia bowled New Zealand out for 183 and reached the target for the loss of three wickets, a fifth World Cup, shared as hosts with New Zealand.

Source: ICC, 2015 World Cup final · recall

England and New Zealand tied on 241 and then tied the Super Over; England took the title for hitting 26 boundaries to New Zealand's 17, a rule later scrapped.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2019 World Cup final · applied

Head made 137 as Australia chased down 241 with overs to spare, a sixth men's World Cup and India's only defeat of the tournament.

Source: ICC, 2023 World Cup final · applied

India beat Pakistan by five runs at the Wanderers, Joginder Sharma bowling the last over as Misbah-ul-Haq holed out, in the inaugural edition of the shortest world tournament.

Source: ICC, 2007 T20 World Cup · recall

The 2024 tournament was staged jointly by the West Indies and the United States, which hosted group matches in New York, Florida and Texas, a first for a global cricket event.

Source: ICC, 2024 T20 World Cup · recall

Pakistan lost group games early but recovered to beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final, two years after losing the inaugural final to India.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2009 T20 World Cup final · applied

Craig Kieswetter and Kevin Pietersen saw England home with three overs unused; it was the first of cricket's global one-day or T20 tournaments that England had won.

Source: ICC, 2010 T20 World Cup final · applied

West Indies recovered from 32 for 2 to 137 for 6, Samuels making 78, then bowled Sri Lanka out for 101 to win by 36 runs at the Premadasa.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2012 T20 World Cup final · applied

Sri Lanka held India to 130 for 4 and Sangakkara's unbeaten 52 saw them home with 13 balls left, their first world title since the 1996 World Cup after four lost finals in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

Source: ICC, 2014 T20 World Cup final · recall

Brathwaite's four sixes off Stokes at Eden Gardens turned a lost position into a four-wicket win, making West Indies the first men's side to win the T20 World Cup twice.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2016 T20 World Cup final · applied

Mitchell Marsh made 77 not out and David Warner 53 as Australia overhauled New Zealand's 172 for 4 with seven balls to spare, the BCCI having moved its event to the UAE and Oman.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2021 T20 World Cup final · recall

England's five-wicket win meant they held the 50-over World Cup won in 2019 and the T20 World Cup at the same time, a first for the men's game.

Source: ICC, 2022 T20 World Cup final · applied

India made 176 for 7 and South Africa, needing 30 off 30, fell to 169 for 8; it was India's second T20 world title and a first global trophy since 2013.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2024 T20 World Cup final · applied

The ICC KnockOut was a straight-elimination event first held in Bangladesh, its revenue earmarked for developing the game in countries without Test status.

Source: ICC, Champions Trophy history · recall

South Africa beat West Indies by four wickets in the Dhaka final; it stayed their only global one-day title for a very long time.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 1998 ICC KnockOut · recall

India and Sri Lanka were declared joint champions after rain washed out the final on two successive days without both sides completing an innings.

Source: ICC, 2002 Champions Trophy · applied

Fakhar Zaman made 114 as Pakistan posted 338 for 4 and then bowled India out for 158, a 180-run win by the side seeded eighth going in.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2017 Champions Trophy final · applied

The ICC restored the eight-team event for 2025 with Pakistan as host, and India played all their matches, including the final, in Dubai under a neutral-venue arrangement.

Source: ICC, 2025 Champions Trophy · recall

Each championship runs about two years, with nine teams playing six series each before the top two meet in a single final; the cycle began with the 2019 Ashes.

Source: ICC, World Test Championship · recall

The first cycle gave a fixed 120 points per series regardless of length, which drew criticism; from 2021-23 sides have been ranked by the share of the points open to them, with deductions for a slow over rate.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, on the WTC points system · applied

Head's 163 and a stand of 285 with Smith set up Australia's 469, and they bowled India out twice to win by 209 runs.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2023 WTC final · recall

Kyle Jamieson took seven wickets in the match and New Zealand knocked off 139 on the reserve day, a first global title for them since 2000.

Source: ICC, 2021 WTC final · recall

Aiden Markram's 136 carried South Africa to 282 for 5 on the fourth day, their first ICC trophy since the 1998 KnockOut.

Source: ICC, 2025 WTC final · recall

Every World Cup from 1975 to 1983 had been in England; the 1987 Reliance Cup was the first taken elsewhere, co-hosted by India and Pakistan.

Source: ICC, Cricket World Cup history · recall

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh co-hosted 2011; Pakistan had been due to share it but lost its matches after the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 2011 World Cup · recall

From 1996 to 2015 the tournament used groups plus a Super Six or quarter-finals; 2019 and 2023 returned to the 1992 model of one league with the top four in semi-finals.

Source: ICC, Cricket World Cup formats · applied

All ten teams played each other once and the leading four went through, so two or three poor results could end a campaign before the knockouts.

Source: ICC, 2019 World Cup playing conditions · recall

Australia won in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023, three times as many titles as any other nation.

Source: ICC, Cricket World Cup records · applied

Tendulkar made 2,278 runs across six World Cups, including 673 in 2003, and remains clear of Ponting and Kohli at the top of the list.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, World Cup batting records · recall

McGrath took 71 wickets across four tournaments, including 26 in 2007; Muralitharan and later Starc are the closest but have not reached that figure.

Source: ICC, World Cup bowling records · recall

Guptill made an unbeaten 237 for New Zealand in the Wellington quarter-final, the highest score in World Cup history, ahead of Gayle's 215 in the same edition.

Source: ESPNcricinfo, World Cup batting records · applied

Kohli went past 1,200 T20 World Cup runs during the 2024 tournament and retired from the format on 1,292, having been player of the tournament in both 2014 and 2016.

Source: ICC, T20 World Cup records · recall

India won in 2007 and 2024, West Indies in 2012 and 2016, and England in 2010 and 2022; Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australia have one title each.

Source: ICC, T20 World Cup records · applied