ICC Cricket World Cup Winners List (1975-2019)

The ICC Cricket World Cup, the “flagship event of the international cricket calendar” by the ICC, is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events. The tournament is organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years. Since the first tournament was held in the year 1975 in England, the tournament has been held for eleven times so far, the 2015 World Cup was the 11th while the 2019 World Cup would be the 12th ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup. ICC also holds a separate tournament for the women. So far, the most preferred format in the tournament has been the round-robin group stage followed by the knock out stage. The winning team gets a trophy; presented by the ICC. Let’s have a look at all the winning teams which have won this prestigious trophy so far:

1975

Host: England

Winner: West Indies

Runner-up: Australia

Result: West Indies won by 17 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Glenn Turner (New Zealand)- 333 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Gary Gilmour (Australia)- 11 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Clive Lloyd (West Indies)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Lord’s, West Indies had scored 291-8, in reply, Australia were all out for 274.

1979

Host: England

Winner: West Indies

Runner-up: England

Result: West Indies won by 92 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Gordon Greenidge (West Indies)- 253 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Mike Hendrick (England)- 10 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Viv Richards (West Indies)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Lord’s, West Indies had scored 286-9, in reply, England were all out for 194.

1983

Host: England

Winner: India

Runner-up: West Indies

Result: India won by 43 runs

Highest Run Scorer: David Gower (England)- 384 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Roger Binny (India)- 18 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Mohinder Amarnath (India)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Lord’s, India were all out for 183, in reply, West Indies were all out for 140.

1987

Host: India & Pakistan

Winner: Australia

Runner-up: England

Result: Australia won by 7 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Graham Gooch (England)- 471 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Craig Mcdermott (Australia)- 18 wickets

Player of the Tournament: David Boon (Australia)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Eden Gardens in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Australia had scored 253-5, in reply, England scored 246-8.

1992

Host: Australia & New Zealand

Winner: Pakistan

Runner-up: England

Result: Pakistan won by 22 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Martin Crowe (New Zealand)- 456 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Wasim Akram (Pakistan)- 18 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Wasim Akram (Pakistan)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Pakistan had scored 249-6, in reply, England were all out for 227.

1996

Host: India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka

Winner: Sri Lanka

Runner-up: Australia

Result: Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets

Highest Run Scorer: Sachin Tendulkar (India)- 523 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Anil Kumble (India)- 15 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Aravinda De Silva (Sri Lanka)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Australia were all out for 241, in reply, Sri Lanka scored 245-3.

1999

Host: England

Winner: Australia

Runner-up: Pakistan

Result: Australia won by 8 wickets

Highest Run Scorer: Rahul Dravid (India)- 461 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Geoff Allott & Shane Warne (Australia)- 20 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Shane Warne (Australia)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Lord’s, Pakistan were all out for 132, in reply, Australia scored 133-2.

2003

Host: South Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya

Winner: Australia

Runner-up: India

Result: Australia won by 125 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Sachin Tendulkar (India)- 673 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka)- 23 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Sachin Tendulkar (India)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, Australia scored 359-2, in reply, India were all out for 234.

2007

Host: West Indies

Winner: Australia

Runner-up: Sri Lanka

Result: Australia won by 53 runs

Highest Run Scorer: Matthew Hayden (Australia)- 659 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Glenn Mcgrath (Australia)- 26 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Adam Gilchrist (Australia)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown in Barbados, Australia had scored 281-4, in reply, Sri Lanka scored 215-8.

2011

Host: Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka

Winner: India

Runner-up: Sri Lanka

Result: India won by 6 wickets

Highest Run Scorer: Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)- 500 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Zaheer Khan (India) & Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)- 21 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Yuvraj Singh (India)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Sri Lanka had scored 274-6, in reply, India scored 277-4.

2015

Host: Australia & New Zealand

Winner: Australia

Runner-up: New Zealand

Result: Australia won by 7 wickets

Highest Run Scorer: Martin Guptill (New Zealand)- 547 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Trent Boult & Mitchell Starc (Australia)- 22 wickets

Player of the Tournament: James Faulkner (Australia)

Final Match Summary: While batting first at Melbourne Cricket Ground, New Zealand were all out for 183, in reply, Australia scored 186-3.

2019

Host: England and Wales

Winner: England

Runner-up: New Zealand

Result: Match tied (England won Super Over on boundary count)

Highest Run Scorer: Rohit Sharma (India)- 648 runs

Highest Wicket Taker: Mitchell Starc (Australia)- 27 wickets

Player of the Tournament: Kane Williamson (New Zealand)

Final Match Summary: The 2019 Cricket World Cup Final was played at Lord’s in London on 14 July 2019. After winning the toss, New Zealand decided to bat first and marked 241 runs for 8 wickets on the scoreboard. In reply, England equaled the score on the final ball of the 50th over for 8 wickets. Then, a super over happened in which, while batting first, England scored 15 runs. In reply, New Zealand also scored 15 runs; resulting in a tie in the super over too. Eventually, England was declared champion based on boundary count; as they had scored nine more boundaries throughout the course of the match. This nail-biting match became the first ODI match to be decided by a super over. The match went on to be ranked as one of the greatest matches in the sport’s history.