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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]
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 won the match by six wickets—its second World Cup win after the 1983 tournament—and became the third team to have won the title more than once, after Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007) and the West Indies (1975 and 1979). [3] India became the first country to win the Cricket World Cup in their own country.
India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. [1] [2] India's Yuvraj Singh was declared as the player of the tournament. [3] This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had appeared in ...
The team won the ODI Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 2011. [2] In other major International victories, Team India won the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007,2024 [3] and ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 and 2013. [4] Cricket was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by European merchant sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established ...
Azharuddin led India to victory in the 1990–91 Asia Cup beating Sri Lanka in the final. He scored 54 runs in the final and was awarded the Man of the match award. [28] Azharuddin led India at the 1992 Cricket World Cup where India were knocked out in the group stage and finished seventh out of nine teams with two wins in eight matches. [29]
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]
The third match of Group B in the 2007 World Cup saw India becoming the first team to break the 400-run barrier in a single innings at the World Cup. Playing against Bermuda at the Queen's Park Oval in the Port of Spain , India posted a score of 413/5. [ 26 ]