Cricket World Cup Winners

On March 15, 2019

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) started contesting the world cup for the One Day International (ODI) format game in 1975. This contest held for every 5 years and it is organized by ICC.

In the 12th ICC Cricket World Cups held so far, five different teams have won the tournament. Australia is the most successful World Cup team having won the tournament five times, and were runner up another two times.

West Indies won the first two tournaments, and India have also won it two times. Pakistan and Sri Lanka have won one tournament each. Sri Lanka (1996) and India (2011) are the only hosts to win, when they co-hosted the tournament.

ICC Cricket World Cup Winners List

The following is a list of the winning country and runner up for each Cricket World Cup. Click on the country names for more country information, or click on the year for more information about the tournament for that year.

YEAR	HOST COUNTRY	WINNER	RUNNER UP	PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT	HIGHEST RUN SCORER	HIGHEST WICKET TAKER
1975	ENGLAND	WEST INDIES	AUSTRALIA	CLIVE LLOYD	GLENN TURNER	GARY GILMOUR
1979	ENGLAND	WEST INDIES	ENGLAND	VIV RICHARDS	GORDON GREENIDGE	MIKE HENDRICK
1983	ENGLAND	INDIA	WEST INDIES	MOHINDER AMARNATH	DAVID GOWER	ROGER BINNY
1987	INDIA & PAKISTAN	AUSTRALIA	ENGLAND	DAVID BOON	GRAHAM GOOCH	CRAIG McDERMOTT
1992	AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND	PAKISTAN	ENGLAND	WASIM AKRAM	MARTIN CROWE	WASIM AKRAM
1996	INDIA, PAKISTAN & SRI LANKA	SRI LANKA	AUSTRALIA	ARAVINDA de SILVA	SACHIN TENDULKAR	ANIL KUMBLE
1999	ENGLAND	AUSTRALIA	PAKISTAN	SHANE WARNE	RAHUL DRAVID	SHANE WARNE
2003	SOUTH AFRICA, ZIMBABWE & KENYA	AUSTRALIA	INDIA	RICKY PONTING	SACHIN TENDULKAR	CHAMINDA VAAS
2007	WEST INDIES	AUSTRALIA	SRI LANKA	ADAM GILCHRIST	MATTHEW HAYDEN	GLENN McGRATH
2011	BANGLADESH, INDIA & SRI LANKA	INDIA	SRI LANKA	YUVRAJ SINGH	TILLAKARATNE DILSHAN	ZAHEER KHAN & SHAHID AFRIDI
2015	AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND	AUSTRALIA	NEW ZEALAND	JAMES FAULKNER	MARTIN GUPTILL	MITCHELL STARC