Cricket World Cup Winners List from 1975 to 2021

Cricket World Cup Winners List

International cricket championship held at four-year intervals that is the premier contest in one-day cricket and one of the most-watched sporting events in the world.

Here we present the list of Cricket World Cup winners. Cricket World Cup was contested for the first time in England in 1975. It was played as a series of one-day matches of 60 overs per side. It was held outside England, in India and Pakistan, for the first time in 1987.

Cricket World Cup Winners List: Overview

In 2007 Australia became the first team to win three consecutive World Cup tournaments. There are 12 World Cup tournaments being held to date. Australia is the most successful country which won 5 World Cups. India & West Indies are the only two countries which have won the world cup 2 times each. India won the World Cup in 1983 and 2011, while West Indies won in 1975 and 1979. The last world Cup held in 2019 was won by England.

ICC World Cup

Year	Winner	Winner’s score	Winning margin	Runner-up	R/Up’s score	Final venue	Host nation(s)	Crowd
1975	West Indies	291/8 (60 overs)	17 runs	Australia	274 all out (58.4 overs)	Lord’s, London	England	24,000
1979	West Indies	286/9 (60 overs)	92 runs	England	194 all out (51 overs)	Lord’s, London	England	32,000
1983	India	183 all out (55th over)	43 runs	West Indies	140 all out (52 overs)	Lord’s, London	England	30,000
1987	Australia	253/5 (50 overs)	7 runs	England	246/8 (50 overs)	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	India, Pakistan	95,000
1992	Pakistan	249/6 (50 overs)	22 runs	England	227 all out (49.2 overs)	MCG, Melbourne	Australia, New Zealand	87,182
1996	Sri Lanka	245/3 (46.2 overs)	7 wickets	Australia	241/7 (50 overs)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka	62,645
1999	Australia	133/2 (20.1 overs)	8 wickets	Pakistan	132 all out (39 overs)	Lord’s, London	England	30,000
2003	Australia	359/2 (50 overs)	125 runs	India	234 all out (39.2 overs)	Wanderers, Johannesburg	South Africa	32,827
2007	Australia	281/4 (38 overs)	53 runs	Sri Lanka	215/8 (36 overs)	Kensington Oval, Barbados	West Indies	28,108
2011	India	277/4 (48.2 overs)	6 wickets	Sri Lanka	274/6 (50 overs)	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh	42,000
2015	Australia	186/3 (33.1 overs)	7 wickets	New Zealand	183 all out (45 overs)	MCG, Melbourne	Australia, New Zealand	93,013
2019	England	241 all out (50 overs)	Tiebreak: 9 fours	New Zealand	241/8 (50 overs)	Lord’s, London	England, Wales	N/A

Results by country

National team	Final appearances	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runners-up
Australia	7	5	2	1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015	1975, 1996
India	3	2	1	1983, 2011	2003
West Indies	3	2	1	1975, 1979	1983
England	4	1	3	2019	1979, 1987, 1992
Sri Lanka	3	1	2	1996	2007, 2011
Pakistan	2	1	1	1992	1999
New Zealand	2	0	2	–	2015, 2019

Debutant teams

Year	Teams
1975	Australia,  East Africa, England,  India,  New Zealand,  Pakistan,  West Indies,  Sri Lanka
1979	Canada
1983	Zimbabwe
1987	none
1992	South Africa
1996	Kenya,  Netherlands,  United Arab Emirates
1999	Bangladesh,  Scotland
2003	Namibia
2007	Bermuda,  Ireland
2011	none
2015	Afghanistan
2019	none
2023	TBD
2027	TBD
2031	TBD

Man of the tournament

Since 1992, one player has been declared as the “Man of the Tournament” at the end of the World Cup finals.

Year	Player	Performance details
1992	Martin Crowe	456 runs
1996	Sanath Jayasuriya	221 runs and 7 wickets
1999	Lance Klusener	281 runs and 17 wickets
2003	Sachin Tendulkar	673 runs and 2 wickets
2007	Glenn McGrath	26 wickets
2011	Yuvraj Singh	362 runs and 15 wickets
2015	Mitchell Starc	22 wickets
2019	Kane Williamson	578 runs and 2 wickets

Man of the Match in the Final

There were no Man of the Tournament awards before 1992 but Man of the Match awards have always been given for individual matches. As of the 2019 tournament, the award has always made to a member of the winning side. The Man of the Match of the finals of the competition have been:

Year	Player	Performance details
1975	Clive Lloyd	102
1979	Viv Richards	138*
1983	Mohinder Amarnath	3/12 and 26
1987	David Boon	75
1992	Wasim Akram	33 and 3/49
1996	Aravinda de Silva	107* and 3/42
1999	Shane Warne	4/33
2003	Ricky Ponting	140*
2007	Adam Gilchrist	149
2011	M S Dhoni	91*
2015	James Faulkner	3/36
2019	Ben Stokes	84* and 0/20

Tournament records:

World Cup records

Batting
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar	2,278 (1992–2011)
Highest average (min. 10 inns.)	Lance Klusener	124.00 (1999–2003)
Highest score	Martin Guptill v  West Indies	237* (2015)
Highest partnership	Chris Gayle & Marlon Samuels (2nd wicket) v  Zimbabwe	372 (2015)
Most runs in a single world cup	Sachin Tendulkar	673 (2003)
Most hundreds	Rohit Sharma  Sachin Tendulkar	6 (2015–2019) 6 (1992–2011)
Most hundreds in a single world cup	Rohit Sharma	5 (2019)
Bowling
Most wickets	Glenn McGrath	71 (1996–2007)
Lowest average (min. 400 balls bowled)	Mitchell Starc	14.81 (2015–2019)
Best strike rate (min. 20 wickets)	Mohammed Shami	18.6 (2015–2019)
Best economy rate (min. 1000 balls bowled)	Andy Roberts	3.24 (1975–1983)
Best bowling figures	Glenn McGrath v  Namibia	7/15 (2003)
Most wickets in a tournament	Mitchell Starc	27 (2019)
Fielding
Most dismissals (wicket-keeper)	Kumar Sangakkara	54 (2003–2015)
Most catches (fielder)	Ricky Ponting	28 (1996–2011)
Team
Highest score	Australia v  Afghanistan	417/6 (2015)
Lowest score	Canada v  Sri Lanka	36 (2003)
Highest win %	Australia	74.73% (Played 94, Won 69)
Most consecutive wins	Australia	27 (20 Jun 1999 – 19 Mar 2011, one N/R excluded)
Most consecutive tournament wins	Australia	3 (1999–2007)

Won tournament

100% win record
Team	Year	Matches played
Australia	(2007)	11
Australia	(2003)	11
Sri Lanka	(1996)	8
West Indies	(1975)	5
West Indies	(1979)	5

2023 Cricket World Cup

The 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup will be the 13th edition of the men’s Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be hosted by India during October and November 2023. This will be the first time the competition is held entirely in India. Three previous editions were partially hosted there – 1987, 1996, and 2011. Originally, the tournament was scheduled to be played from 9 February to 26 March 2023;but, in July 2020 it was announced that the tournament would be delayed to an October–November window, with reports citing the disruption of the qualification schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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