History of World Cup Winners

CA Madhukiran Reddy (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (12714 Points)

03 April 2011  

 

Friends it is very happy to see the yesterday’s final match between India and Srilanka.

Instead of Prime minister their President came to take Srilanka team from Mumbai to Srilanka.;)

See the History of the World Cup Results and man of the match & tournament winners.

Also give a big Applause to Team India. Finally We did it after 28 years.

 

World Cup Results

In the ten ICC Cricket World Cups held so far, five teams have won the tournament. Australia is the most successful World Cup team having won the tournament four times, and were runner up another three times. West Indies won the first two tournaments, aqnd India have also won it two times. Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won one tournament each. Sri Lanka (1996) and India (2011) are the only host s to win, when they who co-hosted tournament.

Winners List

The following is a list of the winning country and runner up for each Cricket World Cup.

year

winner

runner-up

2011

India

Sri Lanka

2007

Australia

Sri Lanka

2003

Australia

India

1999

Australia

Pakistan

1996

Sri Lanka

Australia

1992

Pakistan

England

1987

Australia

England

1983

India

West Indies

1979

West Indies

Australia

1975

West Indies

Australia

 

 

 

Cricket World Cup Awards

Year

Man of the Final

Man of the tournament

2011

M.S.Dhoni (Latest)

Yuvraj Singh (Latest)

2007

Adam Gilchrist (Australia)

Glenn McGrath (Australia)

2003

Ricky Ponting (Australia)

Sachin Tendulkar (India)

1999

Shane Warne (Australia)

Lance Klusener (South Africa)

1996

Aravinda de Silva (Sri Lanka)

Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)

1992

Wasim Akram (Pakistan)

Martin Crowe (New Zealand)

1987

David Boon (Australia)

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1983

Mohinder Amarnath

-

1979

Viv Richards (West Indies)

-

1975

Clive Lloyd (West Indies)

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