Cricket World Cup: Sneak Peek
Kshitij Regmi
Cricket is on and people are already making assumptions of the performance of teams and players, thats where half the fun is at! I couldn't stay apart from making my own judgments and a few weeks earlier had come up with an article on the World Cup Cricket: Winners Predicted. To be honest after watching the warm up matches, I am not sure weather Australia will stand out the Caribbean pressure as I had predicted. There is only one way to find the answers and that is to wait and watch. By the time you read this article you will know who had the toned their muscles well.
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Year
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Host
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Winner
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Runner up
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1975
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England
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West Indies
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England
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1979
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England
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West Indies
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England
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1983
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England
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India
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West Indies
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1987
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India/Pakistan
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Australia
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England
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1992
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Australia/New Zealand
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Pakistan
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England
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1996
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India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka
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Australia
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1999
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England
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Australia
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Pakistan
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2003
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South Africa
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Australia
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Indi
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Now let’s take a look at the Master Blasters (Batsmen Records)
Sachin Tendulkar IND Most number of runs in a world cup
Gary Kristen RSA Highest Score in a game 188 not out
Saurav Ganguly IND Most Centuries (List includes Mark (Waugh &Tendulkar)
Dravid & Ganguly IND Highest partnership of 318 runs against Sri-Lanka 1999
Brain Lara WI Fastest 50 in 23 balls against Canada
Ricky Pointing AUS Most sixes in a match(6) against India 2003
The masters of swing and spin (Bowlers Records)
* Information sources www.crickinfo.com and blog sites
Talha Jubair of Bdesh is the youngest player (17 yr 70 days), when he played in
2003 World Cup against West Indies.
N Clarke of Netherlands is the oldest player (47 yr 257 days) when he
played in 1996 World cup against South Africa
Team and Player Stats
Australia has played the most number of matches (58). They hold the pride of winning the most number of matches 40
Sri-Lanka put up a massive 398/5 runs on board in the 2003 world cup to make it the highest team total in WC history.
Wasim Akram has played 38 world cup matches being the player to have played the most number of matches.
When it comes to Man of the Matches (MOM) no one can beat the Little Master Sachin Tendulkar. He has received 8 MOM.
Mohamad Azarruddhin has captained his side 23 times in the WC and holds the record of being the player to captain a side for the maximum number of times.
If you have similar stats and think are worth sharing please send the information to worldcup2007@enasha.com
The youngest and the oldest
Wasim Akram PAK Most number of wickets 55
G Mcgrath AUS Best bowling figures 7/15
Not sure about this World Cup, I thought it would be nice to go through what happened in the past at the Cricket Mahasnagram* (*Term Courtesy Aaj Tak-Sabse Tez )
First let’s take a look at the past winners. | 
