India is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket. The Cricket World Cup is a quadrennial event hosted by the ICC in the ODI format since 1975. There have been thirteen editions of the tournament and India has participated in every edition. India have won it twice in 1983 and 2011 while also finishing as runners-up in 2003 and 2023.
The 1975 Cricket World Cup was held in England in June 1975 and was the inaugural tournament.[17] The format consisted of a group stage, in which each team played the other three teams in its group of four with India placed in Group B with England, New Zealand and East Africa.[18] The Indian team was led by Srinivas Venkataraghavan and was relatively inexperienced at ODI cricket, having played their first match only a year earlier during the tour of England in 1974.
India's first match was against England at Lord's where India scored 132/3 in 60 overs while chasing a score of 334, losing by 202 runs.[16] India won the next match against East Africa at Headingley in Leeds by ten wickets, while chasing a modest target of 121 runs with medium pacerMadan Lal taking three wickets and Gavaskar top-scoring with 65 from 86 balls.[19] India's last match in the group stage was against New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester. Batting first, India scored 230, with Syed Abid Ali top scoring with 70 from 98 balls but however, New Zealand chased the target losing just six wickets with opener Glenn Turner scoring his second century of the tournament (114 not out from 177 balls).[20] India finished third in the group and failed to qualify for the next round as only the top two teams progressed to the semifinals.[18]
The 1979 Cricket World Cup was held in England was the second edition of the tournament.[23] The format remained the same as the last edition and consisted of a group stage, in which each team played the other three teams in its group of four with India placed in Group B with West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.[24] The Indian team was led by Srinivas Venkataraghavan for the second consecutive world cup.[21]
India's first match was against reigning world champions West Indies at Edgbaston in Birmingham which the West Indies won by nine wickets.[22] India were bowled out for 190 with Vishwanath top scoring with 75 runs while Gordon Greenidge scored an unbeaten century for the West Indies.[25] In their next match against New Zealand at Headingley, India were all out for 182 with Gavaskar top scoring with 55 runs and New Zealand chased the target to win by eight wickets with Bruce Edgar scoring an unbeaten 84.[26] India's last match in the group stage was against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford Manchester. Chasing a target of 239, India were bowled out for 191 and losing by 47 runs.[27] India finished last in the group and failed to qualify for the next round as only the top two teams progressed to the semifinals.[24]
The 1983 Cricket World Cup was the third consecutive edition of the tournament to be held in England.[29] The format remained the same as the last edition and consisted of a group stage with the only change being that every team played the other three teams in its group twice. India was placed in Group B with West Indies, Australia and Zimbabwe.[30] The Indian team was led by Kapil Dev.[21]
India's first match in the tournament was against the two-time defending champions West Indies in Manchester in which India caused an upset, winning the match by 34 runs. Batting first, India scored 262 runs with Yashpal Sharma top scoring with 89 runs and then bowled out West Indies for 228 with Roger Binny and Ravi Shastri taking three wickets each.[31] India won their second match against Zimbabwe at Leicester chasing a target of 156 with Sandeep Patil scoring 50 runs and Madan Lal taking three wickets.[32] India lost the next match against Australia at Trent Bridge in Nottingham by 162 runs, in which Australia scored 320 runs batting first before bowling out India for 158.[33] India lost their fourth match against the West Indies at The Oval in London by 66 runs where they were bowled out for 216 chasing a target of 283 with Mohinder Amarnath top scoring with 80 runs.[34] In the penultimate match of the group stage against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells, India won the match by 31 runs.[35] India lost five wickets for 17 runs before the Indian captain Kapil Dev scored 175 runs from 138 balls, which was then the highest individual score in ODI cricket.[36] India last match in the group stage against Australia took place at Chelmsford. Batting first, India were all out for 247 runs and chasing 248 runs to win, Australia were all out for 129 runs Madan Lal and Roger Binny taking four wickets each.[37] India finished second in their group and qualified for the semifinals for the first time ever in the Cricket World Cup.[30]
India's semifinal match was against hosts England at Manchester. Batting first, England were all out for 213 runs with Kapil Dev taking three wickets and India chased the target with Yashpal Sharma and Sandeep Patil scoring half-centuries, to win by six wickets.[38] The result meant that India progressed to the World Cup final for the first time, to be played against the West Indies on 25 June 1983 at Lord's in London.[29] In the final, India batted first and were all out for 183 runs with Krishnamachari Srikkanth top scoring with 38 runs. Chasing a modest target for a third consecutive world cup win, West Indies were bowled out for 140 runs with Amarnath and Madan Lal taking three wickets each.[39] The result meant that India won their first ever Cricket World Cup and became the first team other than West Indies to do the same. Mohinder Amarnath was awarded the Man of the Match award in both the semi-finals and finals.[39][38] Roger Binny finished as the highest wicket taker in the tournament with 18 wickets.[29] India's upset victory in 1983 was a major turning point for Indian as well as world cricket as the win increased the popularity of cricket in India, leading to increased audience and revenues.[40][41]
The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the first tournament to be held outside England and was co-hosted by India and Pakistan.[43] The format remained the same as the last edition but the matches were reduced to 50 overs-a-side from 60 overs used in the earlier tournaments. India was placed in Group A with Australia, New Zealand and Zimbabwe.[44] The Indian team was led by Kapil Dev for the second consecutive tournament.[21]
India played the first match of the tournament against Australia at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Madras, which was won by Australia. Batting first, Australia scored 270 runs and India who were at one stage at 207/2 thanks to half-centuries from Srikkanth and Navjot Sidhu, were all out for 269 runs, losing by one run.[45] India won their next match against New Zealand at Bangalore by 16 runs, after scoring 252 runs batting first with half-centuries from Sidhu and Kapil Dev before bowling out New Zealand for 236.[46] India won the next match against Zimbabwe by eight wickets at Wankhede Stadium in Bombay before beating Australia in the fourth match at Delhi by 56 runs in which India scored 289 runs with half-centuries from four batters before bowling out Australia for 233.[47] India won the fifth match against Zimbabawe at Ahmedabad by 7 wickets.[42] In the last group stage match against New Zealand, India chased a target of 222 with 18 overs to spare and Gavaskar registering the only ODI century of his career in the match.[48] In the match, Chetan Sharma took a hat-trick, the first ever by an Indian bowler and the first in a World Cup.[49] With 5 wins and 1 loss from 6 matches, India topped their group and qualified for the semifinals, where they were to play England at Bombay.[44]
In the semifinal, England scored 254 runs with century from opener Graham Gooch after being asked to bat first with India getting all out for 219, eventually losing by 35 runs.[50] Gavaskar, in his final tournament, scored 300 runs, the highest for India, and was one of the top ten batsmen in terms of runs scored while the partnership of 136 with Srikkanth against New Zealand at Nagpur was the highest partnership for any wicket in the tournament.[51]left-arm spinnerManinder Singh was the best bowler for India with 14 wickets and was the best spinner of the tournament.[52]WicketkeeperKiran More, with 11 dismissals, effected the most dismissals in the tournament.
The 1992 Cricket World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand.[54] A new format was introduced for the 1992 World Cup, with the group format being scrapped in favour of a round-robin format, where each team would play all the other 8 teams in the tournament once, with the top 4 teams at the end of the Round-Robin stage progressing to the semifinals.[55] It was also the first World Cup played with colored jerseys and which had day-night matches.
India's first match in the tournament was against England at Perth which they lost by nine runs after being bowled out for 227 while chasing a target of 237.[56] The second match against Sri Lanka at Mackay was abandoned due to rain after just two balls.[53] Srikkanth holds the unusual record of scoring the only run ever scored in international cricket at the Ray Mitchell Oval, in Mackay as the ground did not host any other international matches.[57] In the third match against co-hosts and defending champions Australia at The Gabba in Brisbane, India lost by one run in a repeat of the result from the previous World Cup. Chasing a revised target of 235 in a rain affected match, India were all out for 234 with Azharuddin top scoring with 93 runs.[58] India played neighbors Pakistan at Sydney, which was the first ever encounter between the teams in a World Cup. India scored 216 runs in a match reduced to 49 overs due to rain with Sachin Tendulkar top-scoring with 54 runs and Pakistan were all out for 173 runs to lose by 43 runs.[59]
In the next match against Zimbabwe at Seddon Park in Hamilton, India won the rain-curtailed match by 55 runs.[53] India next played the West Indies at Basin Reserve in Wellington in which West Indies chased a target of 195 with six overs to spare to beat India by five wickets.[53] India lost the final two matches against co-hosts New Zealand at Dunedin and World Cup debutants South Africa at Adelaide Oval.[53] In the earlier match, India scored 230 runs with half-centuries from Tendulkar and Azharuddin, which was chased down by New Zealand.[60] Against South Africa, in a match reduced to 30 overs due to rain, India scored 180 runs with top score from Azharuddin (79 runs), which South Africa chased down to win the match by six wickets.[61] With only two wins, India finished seventh amongst the nine teams in the group stage and failed to qualify for the semi-finals.[55] The tournament would be won by Pakistan, one of the two teams beaten by India in the group stage. India's highest scorer in the tournament was Azharuddin with 332 runs and amongst the bowlers, Manoj Prabhakar took 12 wickets.[62][63]
The 1996 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.[65] The tournament went back to the group format which was last used in the 1987 edition. Each team would play the other five teams in a six team group, with the top four teams progressing to the quarterfinals.[66] In the group stage, India were placed in Group A with co-hosts Sri Lanka, Australia, West Indies, Zimbabwe and World Cup debutants Kenya.[55]
India started their campaign by defeating Kenya at Cuttack, first restricting them to 199/6 with Anil Kumble taking three wickets and then chasing it down to win by seven wickets with Tendulkar top scoring with 127 runs.[67] In the next match against the West Indies at Gwalior, India bowled out West Indies for 173 with Kumble and Prabhakar taking three wickets each and chasing it down with Tendulkar again top scoring with 70 runs.[68] India lost the next match to Australia at Bombay, after being bowled out for 242 runs while chasing a target of 259.[64] In the next match against Sri Lanka in Delhi, India scored 271 runs while batting first with Tendulkar hitting 137 runs, but lost after Sri Lanka chased it down with eight balls remaining.[69] India ended the group stage with a 40 run win against Zimbabwe at Kanpur with Vinod Kambli top scoring with 106 runs.[64] With this win, India finished third in their group and qualified for the quarterfinals, setting up a match against Pakistan at Bangalore.[66]
In the quarter finals, India elected to bat after winning the toss and scored 287 runs with Sidhu top scoring with 93 runs and then restricted Pakistan to 248/9 to complete a win and qualify for the semifinals.[70] In the semifinals at the Eden Gardens in Calcutta on 13 March 1996, India played Sri Lanka in a match which became notorious for poor crowd behavior. India asked Sri Lanka to bat first, who posted a total of 251/8 and in reply, India who were at one stage at 98/1, lost seven wickets for 22 runs to slump to 120/8 in the 35th over, with still 132 runs to win. At this point, sections of the crowd began rioting because of which the match referee Clive Lloyd decided to award the game to Sri Lanka.[71] Tendulkar scored 523 runs at an average of 87.16 and was the leading run scorer in the tournament.[72] Leg-spinner Kumble was the leading wicket taker in the tournament with 15 wickets at 18.73 apiece.[73]
The 1999 Cricket World Cup was held in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Netherlands.[75] A new format was introduced for the 1999 World Cup, where teams were divided into two groups of six teams each, with the top three teams in each group progressing to the Super Six stage, where a team belonging to one group in the group stage would play once against all three teams progressing from the other group.[76] India were placed in Group A in the group stage along with hosts England, defending champions Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.[76]
India began their campaign with a loss to South Africa at Hove in which South Africa won by four wickets after chasing a target of 254 with Sourav Ganguly top scoring for India with 97 runs.[77] In the next match, India lost to Zimbabwe by three runs after India were bowled out for 249 while chasing a target of 252.[74] In the third match at Bristol, India beat Kenya by 94 runs after scoring 329 runs while batting first with centuries from Tendulkar (140 not out) and Dravid (104 not out).[78] India then recorded a win against Sri Lanka at Taunton by a huge margin of 157 runs. India scored 373 runs with Ganguly scoring 183 runs, then the highest ever by an Indian cricketer in ODIs, sharing a partnership of 318 runs along with Rahul Dravid (145 runs) and then Sri Lanka were then bowled out for 216 with Robin Singh taking five wickets.[79] India won the final match against hosts England at Edgbaston in Birmingham by 63 runs; in a match extended by a day due to rain with England bowled out for 169 while chasing a target of 233.[74]
India finished second in Group A and qualified for the Super Six stage.[76] The teams carried the points scored against fellow qualifiers from the same group and India carried no points as they lost to both fellow qualifiers South Africa and Zimbabwe.[76] India's first match in the Super Six stage was against Australia at The Oval in London, which they lost by 77 runs.[74] India beat Pakistan in their next match at Old Trafford in Manchester by 47 runs, with India scoring 227 runs before bowling out Pakistan for 180 runs with Venkatesh Prasad taking five wickets.[80] India's last match in the stage was against New Zealand at Trent Bridge in Nottingham with India losing by five wickets as New Zealand achieved the target of 252 with just 8 balls to spare.[74] Dravid was the leading run-scorer of the tournament with 461 runs at an average of 65.85 with Ganguly who scored 379 runs also being part of the top three run getters in the tournament.[75]
The 2003 Cricket World Cup was held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.[82] The same format from the previous tournament was used with teams were divided into two groups of six teams each, with the top three teams in each group progressing to the Super Six stage, where a team belonging to one group in the group stage would play once against all three teams progressing from the other group.[83] In the Group stage, India were placed in Group A, accompanied by co-hosts Zimbabwe, defending champions Australia, Pakistan, England, Netherlands and debutants Namibia.[83]
In the first match against Netherlands at Paarl, India scored 204 runs before bowling out Netherlands for 136 runs to win by 68 runs.[81] India's next match was a loss against Australia at Supersport Park in Centurion with India, batting first were all out for 125 runs and Australia chased the target in 22.2 overs, only losing one wicket.[81] India then won against Zimbabwe by 83 runs at Harare Sports Club, with India scoring 255 runs and later bowling out Zimbabwe for 172 with Tendulkar top scoring with 81 runs and Ganguly taking three wickets.[84] This was followed by a 181 run victory over Namibia at Pietermaritzburg with India scoring 311 runs with centuries from Tendulkar (152) and Ganguly (112) followed by bowling out Namibia for 130 runs with Yuvraj Singh taking four wickets.[85] India won the next group match against England by 82 runs at Kingsmead in DurbanAshish Nehra taking six wickets to bowl out England for 168 runs, having set a target of 251 runs.[86] In the next match against Pakistan in Centurion, India chased 274 runs to win six wickets with Tendulkar top scoring with 98 runs.[87] With five wins, India finished second in Group A and qualified for the Super Six stage.[83]
In the Super Six stage, India won all the three matches, thus qualifying for the semifinals.[81] India beat Kenya at Newlands in Cape Town by six wickets with Ganguly top scoring with 107 runs.[88] India beat Sri Lanka at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg by 183 runs with Tendulkar top scoring with 97 runs and Srinath taking four wickets.[89] India won the final match of the stage against New Zealand at Centurion by seven wickets with Zaheer Khan taking four wickets to bundle out New Zealand for 146, followed by a successful run chase.[90]
In the semifinals, India beat Kenya at Durban while scoring 270 runs batting first with Ganguly top scoring with 111 runs and then bowling out Kenya for 179 runs.[91] With this India reached the finals for the first time since 1983, where they faced defending champions Australia. The final, played on 23 March 2003 at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, saw India electing to field first after winning the toss. Australia scored 359 runs with Australian captain Ricky Ponting scoring 140 runs and then bowled out India for 234 runs with only Virender Sehwag scoring a half-century, to win the match by 125 runs.[92] Tendulkar was awarded the Man of the Tournament award for being the leading run scorer with 673 runs with Ganguly ending up as the second leading run scorer in the tournament.[82] Zaheer Khan was the leading wicket taker for India and finished fourth on the overall wicket takers list.[93]
The 2007 Cricket World Cup was held in West Indies for the first time.[95] A new format was introduced for the 2007 World Cup, with the teams divided into groups of four, where each team would play the other three teams with the top two teams progressing to a Super Eight stage.[96] India were placed in Group B, along with Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and World Cup debutants Bermuda.[96]
In the first match at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, India lost to Bangladesh by five wickets after scoring only 191 runs batting first, which was chased down by Bangladesh.[97] In the second match at the same venue, India beat Bermuda by 257 runs setting records for the highest total in an innings (413 runs) and the highest margin of victory.[98] In the last match against Sri Lanka at Trinidad and Tobago, India lost by 69 runs after being bowled out for 185, chasing a target of 255.[99] India were eliminated from the tournament after finishing third in the group and it was the first time since 1992 that the team failed to progress from the first round.[96]
The 2011 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.[101] A new format was introduced for the 2011 World Cup, with the format reverting to the one used in the 1996 edition. The teams were grouped into two groups of six teams with the top four teams from each group qualifying for the quarter finals.[102] India were placed in Group B in the Group stage alongside co-hosts Bangladesh, South Africa, England, West Indies, Netherlands and Ireland.[102]
India began the campaign with a 87-run win against Bangladesh at Dhaka in which India scored 370 runs with centuries from Sehwag (175) and Virat Kohli (100 not out) before bowling out Bangladesh for 283 runs with Munaf Patel taking four wickets.[103] India next played England at Bangalore, which ended in a tie with India scoring 338 runs with Tendulkar top-scoring with 120 runs before England matched the total.[104] In their third group match, India defeated Ireland at Bangalore, by five wickets by chasing a target of 208 with Yuvraj taking five wickets for India.[105] India followed with a win over Netherlands at Delhi with Netherlands restricted to 189 all out, followed by a successful chase by India.[100] India played South Africa at Nagpur in which India scored 296 runs batting first before South Africa chased the target with two deliveries to spare.[100] India's final group match was a80-run victory over the West Indies at Chennai with India scoring 268 runs backed up by a century from Yuvraj, before bowling out the West Indies.[100]
In the quarterfinals, India faced three-time defending champions Australia at Ahmedabad. Australia scored 260 runs before India chased the target with five wickets and 14 deliveries to spare with half-centuries from Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj.[106] India played Pakistan in the semifinal at Mohali. India won the toss and chose to bat first, scoring 260/9 in 50 overs with Tendulkar top scoring with 85 and later bowled out Pakistan for 231, thereby winning the match.[107] India met with Sri Lanka in the finals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Sri Lanka scored 274/6 after 50 overs after which India chased the target to win by six wickets with Gambhir (97 runs) and Dhoni (91 not out) scoring half-centuries. India secured their second World Cup and the first since 1983.[108] Tendulkar scored 482 runs, and was the second-highest run scorer in the tournament.[101] Zaheer Khan took 21 wickets, and was the leading wicket-taker in the World Cup.[101] Yuvraj, who scored 362 runs and took 15 wickets, was named Man of the Tournament for his all-round performance.[108]
Group stage match between India and Pakistan at the Adelaide OvalGroup stage match between India and UAE at WACA Ground, Perth
The 2015 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.[110] The format remained the same as the previous edition with the teams grouped into two groups of six teams with the top four teams from each group qualifying for the quarter finals.[111] In the Group stage, India were placed in Group B with Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland and UAE.[111]
India began the campaign with a 76 run win against Pakistan at Adelaide. Batting first, India scored 300 runs with a century from Kohli (107 runs) and bowling out Pakistan for 224 runs with Mohammed Shami taking four wickets.[112] In the next match, India defeated South Africa by 130 runs at Melbourne. India scored 307 runs with Shikhar Dhawan top scoring with 137 runs and in reply, South Africa were bowled out for 177 runs.[113] In the next match, India beat UAE by nine wickets at Perth after bowling out UAE for 102 runs with Ravichandran Ashwin taking four wickets and successfully chasing a target of 103 runs with Rohit Sharma top scoring with 57 runs.[114] In the next match against West Indies, India restricted West Indies to 182 all out, with Shami taking three wickets and successfully chased the target to win by four wickets.[115] In the next match, India faced Ireland at Hamilton in which Ireland scored 259 runs batting first and in reply, India chased the target with 13 overs and eight wickets to spare and Dhawan scoring a century.[116] India's last match in the group stage was against Zimbabwe at Auckland in which Zimbabwe were bowled out for 287 batting first and India chased the target successfully with Suresh Raina top scoring with 110 runs.[117]
In the quarterfinals, India beat Bangladesh by 109 runs at Melbourne. India, batting first, scored 302/6 with Rohit scoring a century (137 runs) and then bowled out Bangladesh for 193.[118] In the semifinals, India played co-hosts Australia at Sydney in which India lost the toss and were made to bowl first with the Australians finishing their innings at 328/7. Chasing a target of 329, India were all out for 233 runs with only Dhoni reaching a half-century and losing the match by 95 runs.[119] India won 11 consecutive matches in the World Cup in a run stretching back to from 2011 and the Indian team bowled out the opposition in every match till the semi-finals. With 412 runs, Dhawan was the fifth highest run scorer of the tournament, while the fast bowlers Umesh Yadav and Shami were third and fourth respectively among the tournament's leading bowlers with 18 and 17 wickets.[110]
The 2019 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by England and Wales.[123] The round-robin format last used in the 1992 World Cup was used for this tournament, with each team playing all the other nine participating teams once and the top four teams then advancing to the semi-finals.[124]
India began their campaign with a win against South Africa at Southampton. Batting first, South Africa posted a score of 227/9 and India chased down the target for the loss of just four wickets with Rohit scoring a century (122 runs).[125] India next played Australia at The Oval in which India scored 352 runs while batting first with Dhawan top scoring with 117 runs before bowling Australia out for 316 runs and thus winning by 36 runs.[126] India's third match against New Zealand was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain.[127] India beat Pakistan by 89 runs in a rain affected match at Old Trafford, Manchester with India posting a total of 336 runs on the back of a century by Rohit (140 runs) before Pakistan finished with 212 runs while chasing a revised target of 302 runs.[128] India then played Afghanistan at Southampton and won 11 runs after scoring 224 runs while batting first and then restricting Afghanistan to 213 runs.[129] Shami took a hat-trick in the match, which was only the second by an Indian bowler in a World Cup since Chetan Sharma in 1987.[130] India won the next match against West Indies by 125 runs with India scoring 268 runs batting first and then bowling out West Indies for 143 runs with Shami taking four wickets.[131]
India's first loss in the 2019 World Cup came against hosts England at Edgbaston. England posted a score of 337/7 in their 50 overs and chasing 338 to win, India ended their innings at 306/5, losing by 31 runs.[132] In the next match against Bangladesh two days later, India score 314 runs with Rohit scoring his fourth century in the tournament before Bangladesh was bowled out for 286, India winning by 28 runs.[133] India ended the round robin stage with a seven wicket win over Sri Lanka at Headingley. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 264/7 in 50 overs and India chased down the target with both openers Rohit (103 runs) and Rahul (111 runs) scoring centuries. Rohit's century was his fifth in the tournament, making him the first ever batsman to hit five centuries in a single Cricket World Cup.[134] India topped the round robin stage with seven wins and qualified for the semi-finals.[135][136]
In the semifinals, India played with New Zealand at Old Trafford in a rain affected match, spread over two days. New Zealand batted first and reached a score of 239/8 in their 50 overs before India was bowled out for 221 to lose by 18 runs with Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja scoring half-centuries. As a result, India crashed out of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, the second consecutive Cricket World Cup in which they went out in the semifinal stage.[137] With 648 runs, Rohit Sharma ended the tournament as the highest scorer.[123]Jasprit Bumrah was the highest wicket-taker for India with 18 wickets, placing him in joint fourth place.[123]
The 2023 Cricket World Cup was hosted exclusively by India.[140] The round-robin format remained in use for the tournament, with each team playing all the other nine participating teams once and the top four teams then advancing to the semi-finals.[141]
India began their campaign with a six wicket win over Australia at Chennai. Australia were bowled out for 199 runs and India chased the target with Rahul top scoring with 97 runs.[142][143] In the next match, India defeated Afghanistan by eight wickets at Delhi with Afghanistan scoring 272 runs which was chased by India. Bumrah took four wickets before Rohit scored a century (131 runs) for India.[144] India's third match was against Pakistan at Ahmedabad. Pakistan were all out for 191 runs and India easily chased down Pakistan's total for a seven-wicket victory with Rohit top scoring once again with 86 runs.[145] This was followed by a seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh at Pune in which India chased down a target of 257 runs with Kohli top scoring with 103 runs.[146] In their next match at Dharamshala, India overcame New Zealand by four wickets. New Zealand were bowled out for 273 runs with Shami taking five wickets and in response, India chased down the target with Kohli top scoring with 95 runs.[147]
Group stage match between India and Pakistan
India then faced defending champions England at Lucknow in a match which India won by 100 runs. Batting first for the first time in the tournament, India managed only 229/9 with Rohit top scoring with 87 runs before bowling out England for 129 runs with Shami and Bumrah taking four and three wickets respectively.[148] In the next match, India registered a 302-run victory against Sri Lanka in Mumbai, which is India's largest win in the Cricket World Cup in terms of runs. Half centuries from Shubman Gill, Kohli and Shreyas Iyer helped India post a total of 357/8 and in return, Sri Lanka were all out for just 55 runs with Shami taking five wickets. With this match, Shami, with 45 wickets, became India's highest wicket taker across World Cups, going past the record of 44 wickets shared by Javagal Srinath and Zaheer Khan.[149] In the match against South Africa at Kolkata, Kohli scored his 49th ODI hundred as India scored 326/5 in 50 overs and in response, South Africa were all out for 83 runs with Jadeja taking five wickets to ensure a 243-run win.[150] India finished the group stage with a 160-run win over Netherlands at Bengaluru. India posted a score of 410/4, the second highest score posted by India in the Cricket World Cup with all the top five batsmen all making 50+ scores and bowled out Netherlands for 250 runs.[151] As a result, India topped the group stage with an all-win record.[141]
Virat Kohli (pictured during the tournament) was the player of the tournament and the highest run scorer
In the semifinals, India played New Zealand at Mumbai, in a rematch of the 2019 World Cup semifinal. India posted a score of 397/4 with centuries from Kohli and Iyer before bowling out New Zealand for 327.[152] In this match, Kohli broke Tendulkar's world record for most ODI hundreds as he scored his 50th ODI ton (117 runs) and Shami took seven wickets for 57 runs, which is the best ODI bowling figures by an Indian bowler overall as well as the best bowling performance in a World Cup knockout match.[153] With this victory, India qualified for the final for the first time since 2011, where they faced Australia. The final was held on 19 November 2023 at Ahmedabad in which Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first. India were bowled all out for 240 with contributions from Rahul (66 runs), Kohli (54 runs) and Rohit (47 runs). Australia who were 47/3 at one stage, recovered to chase the target with Travis Head top scoring with 137 runs. Australia won by six wickets and lifting their sixth World Cup title in the process.[154][155] With 765 runs, Virat Kohli was adjudged as the Player of the Tournament and became the overall highest run-scorer across Cricket World Cups.[156] Rohit Sharma with 597 runs and Shreyas Iyer with 530 runs, also made it to the top five Indian batsmen who scored the most runs in a single Cricket World Cup, with Rohit also becoming the second highest run-scorer in the tournament overall.[157] Mohammed Shami was the highest wicket-taker of the 2023 Cricket World Cup, with 24 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah, with 20 wickets, and Ravindra Jadeja, who took 16 wickets, also made it to the top ten wicket-takers of this edition.[158] Jadeja was one of the top fielders of this edition with seven catches and with 17 dismissals, Rahul emerged as the second best wicketkeeper of the tournament.[159][160]
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The Pakistan national cricket team, has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the governing body for cricket in Pakistan, which is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Pakistan compete in cricket tours and tournaments sanctioned by the PCB and other regional or international cricket bodies in Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20) formats. Pakistan are current ICC Champions Trophy holders.
Ashish Nehra is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer who played in all formats of the game. Nehra announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in late 2017, with the Twenty20 International match against New Zealand on 1 November 2017 at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground his last appearance. With India, Nehra was a member of the Indian team that was one of the joint-winners of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, which the title was also shared with Sri Lanka, and was a member of the team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup although he didn't play in the final.
Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who played for and occasionally captained the Australian national cricket team between 2002 and 2016. He was an all-rounder who played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was ranked as the world's No. 1 all-rounder in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) for 150 weeks, including an all-time record of 120 consecutive weeks from 13 October 2011 to 30 January 2014. He began playing during the Australian team's golden era in the early 2000s, and was the last player from this era to retire. In his time playing for Australia, Watson was part of their winning squad in the Cricket World Cup two times in 2007, and 2015 along with the ICC Champions Trophy twice in 2006 and 2009, with Watson named as the player of the match in the final on both occasions, as he scored the winning run in the 2006 tournament, with the winning six in the 2009 tournament.
Mohammed Shami is an Indian international cricketer who serves as a right-arm fast or fast medium bowler, representing India in all formats. He has played for Bengal in domestic cricket and for four teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Shami bowls the ball off the seam and uses swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both directions. He has been reputed to have an edge in the death (slog) overs of a limited-overs innings and, in all formats, has been described as being at times "unplayable". Shami finished as India's leading wicket taker in the ICC World Cup 2023, besides being the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in the 48 years history of Cricket World Cup spanning 13 editions. He is recipient of 2023 Arjuna Award for Cricket.
The Nepal men's national cricket team represents the country of Nepal in International cricket and is governed by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They have been Associate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1996. Nepal were awarded Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the ICC in June 2014 until the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier and earned One Day International (ODI) status in 2018.
Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national cricket team across all formats. He is a right-handed batsman. Considered one of the best batsmen of his generation and one of the greatest opening batters of all time, Sharma is known for his timing, elegance, six-hitting abilities and leadership skills. Sharma holds several batting records which famously include most sixes in international cricket, most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7) and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5). Rohit Sharma is the first player to score 5 T20I centuries. He plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL and for Mumbai in domestic cricket.
The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament was hosted between 30 May and 14 July across 10 venues in England and a single venue in Wales. It was the fifth time that England had hosted the World Cup, while for Wales it was their third.
Shikhar Dhawan is an Indian cricketer. A left-handed opening batsman, he captains Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League and plays for Delhi in first-class cricket. At the 2013 Champions Trophy and 2017 Champions Trophy, Dhawan was the leading run-scorer and was awarded the 'Golden Bat' in both the tournaments. He was the leading run scorer for India at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. He also became the first player in the history of IPL to score two back-to-back centuries. He was awarded the 'Player of the Tournament' for his exploits in the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, which he won with his national side. In the 2018 Asia Cup which Dhawan won with his national side, he was named Player Of The Tournament as he was the top scorer of the tournament with the bat.
Mumbai Indians are a professional franchise cricket team based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that competes in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008, the team is owned by India's biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary Indiawin Sports. Since its establishment, the team has played its home matches in the 33,108-capacity Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
The knockout stage was the second and final stage of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. It featured the top four teams from each group and contested as a single-elimination tournament. This was the first tournament in which a one-over eliminator would be used to decide matches that finished as ties; however, this decider was not required. India and Sri Lanka reached the final, where India chased down Sri Lanka's total of 274 runs for the loss of just four wickets to claim their second Cricket World Cup title.
Quinton de Kock is a South African cricketer and former captain of the Proteas in all three formats. He currently plays for South Africa in limited overs cricket, Titans at the domestic level, and Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League. He was named the Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's 2017 Annual Awards. Considered as one of the best wicket keeper batsmen of his generation An opening batsman and wicket-keeper, de Kock made his domestic debut for the Highveld Lions during the 2012/2013 season. He quickly caught the national selectors' eye when he starred in a match-winning partnership with Neil McKenzie in the Champions League T20 against the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL)..He also finished fourth on the first-class rankings, despite playing only six of the 10 matches that summer.
Kannanur Lokesh Rahul is an Indian international cricketer. A right-handed wicket-keeper and batsman, Rahul plays for Karnataka at the domestic level and captains the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League.He is a occational captain of Indian cricket team. He was a part of the Indian squads which won the 2018 Asia Cup and 2023 Asia Cup.
Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team in all formats of the game. A right-arm fast bowler with a unique bowling action, Bumrah is widely regarded as one of the best bowlers in the world and as one of the greatest fast bowlers India has ever produced. He plays for Gujarat in domestic cricket and for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The Bangladesh national cricket team has appeared in each Cricket World Cup since their first appearance at the 1999 Cricket World Cup as an associate team which was mainly held in England. Bangladesh's highest achievements in World Cup are reaching the Super Eight stage in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the Quarter-Final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
The knockout stage of the 2023 Cricket World Cup consisted of two semi-finals, played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 15 November and Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 16 November, and a final, at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 19 November. The ICC stated that if Pakistan had qualified for the semi-finals, they would have played at Eden Gardens. As India qualified for the semi-finals and Pakistan did not, they played at Wankhede Stadium. All knockout matches had a reserve day.
The Australian cricket team toured India in September 2022 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches as a preparatory series before 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. They later returned in February and March 2023 to play four Test and three One Day International (ODI) matches. The Test matches formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship.
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