Amazing facts about the cricket world cup

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT TEAMS OF THE WORLD CUP

• The winner of the two-time West Indies team has been able to make it to the semis only once in the last 9 World Cups since 1983.

• The winner of the first World Cup, West Indies had got 14000 pounds (35.32 lakh rupees) as the winning prize.

• India and West Indies are the only teams of World Cup who have won 60 overs, 50 overs and 20 overs World Cup title.

• In the 1979 World Cup, The Indian Team was the only team in World Cup who had not won a single match.

• VVS Laxman is the only player who had played 100+ test matches but hasn't played any World Cup match.

• India has won all 7 matches against Pakistan, and Pakistan had won all 7 matches against Sri Lanka in World Cup.

• The first bowl of the first match of the first World Cup in 1975 was thrown by Indian all-rounder Madanlal. This bowl was faced by England’s John Jameson.

• Sunil Gavaskar had played the slowest innings in World
  
   cup which was also in the first match of the first World Cup. he had faced 174 bowls but scored only 36* runs.

• Cricket World Cup’s first wicket was taken by the Indian bowler Mohinder Amarnath, he had taken the wicket of England’s John Jameson.

• Sri Lankan skipper Dimanth Karnatne is the only captain who has been dismissed for the first ball of the World Cup match.

• In the history of the World Cup, five batsmen have been dismissed on the first ball of the innings. Martin Guptill has been dismissed twice on the first ball in this World Cup.

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• Lasith Malinga had completed his 100th maiden in World Cup over against South Africa in 2019.

• In World Cup history, Lasith Malinga is the only player who took four wickets on four consecutive bowls. He had achieved this record in 2007 against South Africa.

• In the World Cup match against Sri Lanka, South African fast bowler Dwayne Pistorius did not make any single run in 46 balls. Before this, Jason Holder has thrown 46 dots against India.

• Sachin Tendulkar, Vinod Kambli, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ross Taylor had made a century in one day on their birth date and made the day happy.

• Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya and West Indies Vivian
  
  Richardson is the only Batsmen who had not once in the World Cup, was not out on zero, and made more than 1000 runs.

• West Indies's great batsman Vivian Richardson had played cricket World Cup and had also played World Cup Qualifier match in football.

• Lance Klusener, Abdul Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hasan Tillakaratne are the only four batsmen in the World Cup who batted on all the batting order.

• Against West Indies, in World Cup, both openers of New Zealand was out on their first bowl. This is the second occasion in the World Cup that Both openers Had became Golden Duck.

• The most run partnership for 10th wicket in World Cup is of 71 runs Made by West Indies in 1983 against India.