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2 June 1966 England West Indies: 1–3 [5] — — — 21 June 1966 Scotland Denmark — — 2–0 [3] — International tournaments Start date Tournament Winners 10 September 1966: 1966 Rothmans World Cricket Cup England
International tours Start date Home team Away team Results [Matches] Test ODI FC LA; 12 November 1966 Pakistan Ceylon 3–0 [3] — 13 December 1966 India West Indies 0–2 [3]
The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is the quadrennial international championship of One Day International cricket. [3] The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament.
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
The West Indies cricket team toured England in the 1966 season to play a five-match Test series against England.West Indies won the series 3–1 with one match drawn. The tour was arranged at shorter notice than usual following the big success of the 1963 tour, with touring teams from New Zealand and South Africa "doubling up" in the 1965 season so that the West Indies could be brought back ...
[163] [164] The youngest to appear at the Cricket World Cup was Nitish Kumar who, at the age of 16 years and 283 days, played in Canada's second group stage match at the 2011 tournament against Zimbabwe eclipsing the record that Bangladesh's Talha Jubair had set at the 2003 World Cup playing against the West Indies at 17 years and 70 days old.
The Cricket World Cup Trophy. The Cricket World Cup, the top-level and the most important [citation needed] competition in One Day International cricket, was first played in 1975. This tournament, known as The Prudential World Cup, was played in England and was won by the West Indies. Since then, the tournament has been played every four years ...
World Cup – England defeats Germany to win the 1966 World Cup Final. FIFA decide to give the right to host the 1974 FIFA World Cup, 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982 Football World Cup to West Germany, Argentina and Spain respectively