World Cup winners
They may say it is not about winning or loosing it’s about the spirit of the game. But in the end the winner gets to keep the steal. And in the Cricket World Cup the steal is the shining World Cup trophy. In the years since World Cup became a major international tournament there have been a number of interesting final matches.
Let’s go down memory lane to remember some of the interesting ones.
In the 1900s a number of other countries started playing crickets and joined the list of Test playing nations – West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952.
But it was as late as the 1960s, when English county cricket teams started playing a shortened version of cricket. The first One-Day International event was played between England and Australia on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match at Melbourne in 1971. It was a forty over match with eight balls per over.
The shorter version of the game become an instant hit and prompted the ICC to consider organising a Cricket World Cup.
In the 1983 tournament India registered its first and only victory after beating West Indies by 43 runs in the final.
The 1992 World Cup was significant as a number of changes were introduced and it was won by Pakistan defeating England by 22 runs in the final.