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ICC Cricket World Cup - The One Day International Cricket

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

The independent agency Cricket tournament is that the international championship of 1 Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is unionised by the sport's administration, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament control each four years. The tournament is one in every of the world's most viewed sporting events and is taken into account the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar" by the independent agency.

The first tourney was unionised in European nation in June 1975, with the primary ODI match having been compete solely four years previous. However, a separate Women's Cricket tourney had been control 2 years before the primary public lavatory tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international groups had been control as early as 1912, once a triangular tournament of take a look at matches was compete between Australia, European nation and South Africa.

Every of the primary 3 World Cups were control in European nation. From the 1987 tournament onwards, hosting has been shared between countries underneath associate unofficial rotation system, with fourteen independent agency members having hosted a minimum of one match within the tournament.

The finals of the globe Cup area unit oppose by the 10 full members of the independent agency (all of that area unit Test-playing groups) and variety of teams created up from associate and affiliate members of the independent agency, hand-picked via the globe Cricket League and a later qualifying tournament. a complete of nineteen groups have competed within the 10 editions of the tournament, with fourteen competitor within the 2011 tournament.

Australia has won the tournament fourfold, with the archipelago, Asian country (twice each), Pakistan and Ceylon (once each) additionally having won the tournament. The simplest performance by a non-full-member team came once Republic of Kenya created the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.