|
|
|
New Year »
Sports Events »
Cricket World Cup » Winners
|
Cricket World Cup Winners |
|
The Cricket World Cup is the world's third largest and most viewed sporting event, behind soccer's World Cup and the Summer Olympic Games. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the tenth Cricket World Cup and will be hosted by three South Asian cricket playing countries: India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It will be Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a Cricket World Cup.
The World Cup will use cricket's One Day International system, with fourteen national cricket teams scheduled to compete. Who will be winner of cricket world cup 201, this question is very interested and amazing for all public of the whole world. Cricket world cup winner of 2011 is the most important event of coming year 2011 and memorable for next four years. There are winners and then there are 'the winners'. Cricket is not just a game played with a bat and ball but an exciting competition between skills, years of practice and decisive moments that can turn the game either way. And as all cricketing fans know cricket is a battle that announce the winning team as the gods of the game till the next World Cup.
Past ICC Cricket World Cup Winner
The ICC Cricket World Cup is the attraction event of the cricket calendar and takes place every four years, with matches contested in a 50 over per side format. The Cricket World Cup 2011 is one of the most popular and viewed sporting events in the world, being televised in over 200 countries to over 2.2 billion television viewers. Generally, Television rights for the 2011 and 2015 World Cup, were sold for over US$1.1 billion, and support rights were sold for a further US$500 million.
| Year |
Winner |
Runner-up |
| 1975 |
West Indies |
Australia |
| 1979 |
West Indies |
Australia |
| 1983 |
India |
West Indies |
| 1987 |
Australia |
England |
| 1992 |
Pakistan |
England |
| 1996 |
Sri Lanka |
Australia |
| 1999 |
Australia |
Pakistan |
| 2003 |
Australia |
India |
| 2007 |
Australia |
Sri Lanka |
| 2011 |
India |
Sri Lanka |
|
|
