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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]
India became the first Asian country to win two ICC Men's T20 World Cups (2007 and 2024). [43] India also became the first team in T20 World Cup history to win the title undefeated throughout the tournament. [44] Rohit Sharma became the third Indian captain to win a major ICC event after Kapil Dev in 1983 and MS Dhoni in 2007, 2011 and 2013. [45]
Kapil Dev led the India team in the third edition of the World Cup in 1983. India registered its first ever World Cup victories over West Indies, Australia and England cricket teams en route to the final. It won the World Cup for the first time after defeating the West Indies, who had won the inaugural two editions of the World Cup.
India produced a brilliant performance to defeat South Africa in a dramatic men’s T20 World Cup final, ending a long 13-year wait for the cricket-obsessed nation since its last World Cup win.
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup has been hosted by the ICC in the T20I format since 2007. There have been nine editions of the tournament and India has participated in every edition. India have won it twice in 2007 and 2024 while also finishing as runners-up in 2014. [3]
India have appeared in the World Cup final four times 1983, 2003, 2011, 2023 and won twice in 1983 and 2011. It was the second team (after the West Indies) to win the World Cup, and the first to win the competition on home soil after winning it in 2011. India have also won two ICC Champions trophies (2002 and 2013).
India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Kapil Dev when PR Man Singh was the coach. [1] In 2007, India won the inaugural T20 World cup under Dhoni when Lalchand Rajput was the coach. [2] In 2011, they won the ODI world cup for the second time under Dhoni when Gary Kirsten was the coach. [3]
India batsman Sachin Tendulkar has scored 2,278 runs making him the only player to score more than 2,000 runs at the World Cup. [11] He has also scored the most World Cup half-centuries with 15 [ 12 ] and shares the record with Pakistan's Javed Miandad for the most number of World Cup tournaments played with 6.