Cricket World Cup

Cricket World Cup Trivia

At the first 4 World Cups, all players wore the traditional white uniform and red balls were used.
The first three world cups were held in England
In 1999, the trophy won by the Indian cricket team at the 1983 World Cup was damaged during a violent rampage on the Indian cricket board's headquarters by the Hindu nationalist group Shiv Sena.

At the World Cup in 1996, Australia and West Indies refused to play their matches against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka due to security concerns, causing both matches to be awarded to Sri Lanka by default. Also, Sri Lanka were awarded a victory for their semi-final by default against India because of crowd riots. This aided their campaign which eventually led to them winning the final.

In the 2003 event, Australia became the only team so far in history to remain undefeated throughout the whole tournament.
The only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket is Viv Richards - Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket.
Anderson Cummins is only the second player to represent two different teams in the World Cup (West Indies 1991-92 and Canada 2007. The other is Kepler Wessels who played for Australia in 1983 and for South Africa in 1991-92. A close call was Graeme Hick, who played for England in 1991-92, 1995-96 and 1999, and was in the Zimbabwe squad for the 1983 World Cup but did not get a game.

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