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World Cup Winners List and Runners-Up List

Year	Winner	Runner Up	Player of the Series	Highest Run Scorer	Highest Wicket Taker	Host Country
2015	Australia	New Zealand	James Faulkner	Martin Guptill	Mitchell Starc	Australia & New Zealand
2011	India	Sri Lanka	Yuvraj Singh	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Zaheer Khan & Shahid Afridi	Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka
2007	Australia	Sri Lanka	Adam Gilchrist	Matthew Hayden	Glenn Mcgrath	West Indies
2003	Australia	India	Ricky Ponting	Sachin Tendulkar	Chaminda Vaas	South Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya
1999	Australia	Pakistan	Shane Warne	Rahul Dravid	Shane Warne	England
1996	Sri Lanka	Australia	Aravinda De Silva	Sachin Tendulkar	Anil Kumble	India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka
1992	Pakistan	England	Wasim Akram	Martin Crowe	Wasim Akram	Australia & New Zealand
1987	Australia	England	David Boon	Graham Gooch	Craig Mcdermott	India & Pakistan
1983	India	West Indies	Mohinder Amarnath	David Gower	Roger Binny	England
1979	West Indies	England	Viv Richards	Gordon Greenidge	Mike Hendrick	England
1975	West Indies	Australia	Clive Lloyd	Glenn Turner	Gary Gilmour	England

*Last updated June 2019

List of World Cup Winners and Runners-up with scorecards:

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Score	Result
1975	West Indies	291–8	Australia	274	West Indies won by 17 runs
1979	West Indies	286–9	England	194	West Indies won by 92 runs
1983	India	183	West Indies	140	India won by 43 runs
1987	Australia	253–5	England	246–8	Australia won by 7 runs
1992	Pakistan	249–6	England	227	Pakistan won by 22 runs
1996	Sri Lanka	245–3	Australia	241	Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets
1999	Australia	133–2	Pakistan	132	Australia won by 8 wickets
2003	Australia	359–2	India	234	Australia won by 125 runs
2007	Australia	281–4	Sri Lanka	215–8	Australia won by 53 runs
2011	India	277–4	Sri Lanka	274–6	India won by 6 wickets
2015	Australia	186–3	New Zealand	183	Australia won by 7 wickets

The Cricket World Cup is held once in every four years. Australia were the Cricket World Cup winners last time (for the 5th time). The first tournament was held in the year 1975 and the next one scheduled is in 2019 to be hosted by England. The number of overs per side were 60 in the 1975 World Cup which were reduced to 50 per side from the 1987 World Cup.

Cricket World Cup Winning Teams Records (50-Over Format):

Team Name	No. of times Champion
Australia	5
India	2
West Indies	2
Sri Lanka	1
Pakistan	1

Australia owns the maximum number of World Cup Championship titles (5 times), including a record three consecutive wins from 1999 to 2007, becoming the only country to ever have achieved so. In addition to winning the World Cup five times, it has twice stood at runners up position

India has won the World Cup twice, once in 1983 and later (breaking the winning streak of Australia) in 2011. Standing on an equal footing, West Indies holds record of winning the World Cup twice- the first two World Cups itself, that is, in 1975 and 1979.

Financial Benefit accruing from World Cups

ICC Cricket World Cup is the third biggest sporting event in the world and a source of huge revenue generation for the hosting country as well. An illustration of this can be understood from the fact that television rights of 2011 and 2015 World Cup were sold excess of $1.1 billion.

Participants in World Cups

Only those teams which are full members of ICC, nations which are associate are eligible to participate in the tournament. Non-members of ICC can qualify through a sub-tournament named ICC World Cup Qualifier.

Records

Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara holds the record of hitting four consecutive centuries in ICC World Cup when he completed his fourth one in the 35th game of ICC World Cup 2015 against Scotland.

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record of making maximum number of half-centuries (21) in the World Cup, seven of which were made in 2003 World Cup itself. He also holds the record for making the most runs in the World Cup, with a total of 2278 runs.

Australian player Glenn McGrath is the highest wicket taker in the tournament, bagging 71 wickets in tournament so far.

Also read : Biggest World Cup Wins | List of Cricket World Cup Records
ICC 2019 World Cup Prize Money:

Winner of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 will earn a pool of $4 million (27.8 CR INR), the highest prize money to date. The total prize money for CWC World Cup stands at $10 million (69.57 CR INR). The runner ups will get $2(13.91 CR INR) million, while the other two semi-finalist teams will get $800k each.

Winners of each league stage match (45): $40,000 each; Teams that do pass the league stage will get (6) $100,000 each.

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