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THE CONSISTENT Teams !!

                       Teams like Australia always performed well in ODI cricket. and the World Cup numbers are also no different.

Team	Matches Played	Matches won	Winning %
Australia	77	55	71.43
South Africa	47	30	63.83
West Indies	64	38	59.38
England	66	39	59.09
India	67	39	58.21
Pakistan	64	36	56.25

                     Teams like Bermuda, East Africa, Namibia never tasted WIN in world Cup matches. They remained Win-Less in entire tournament of 2007, 1975, 2003 respectively.

                     Mighty Australia is also MOST CONSISTENT team in World Cups. Australia remained unbeaten in 2003 as well as 2007 entire world cup. Since 23rd May 1999 to 19th March 2011 Australia never lost match in World Cup.

Team	Successive Matches WON	World Cup Edition
Australia	32	1999-2003-2007-2011

                      Similar to Australia, Zimbabwe holds record for longest loosing streak. Zimbabwe started their world cup venture with Bang by scoring victory on mighty Australia in 1983. However their Next victory came after 10 years where they won against England in 1992. Zimbabwe remained Win-Less in 1987 World cup.

Team	Successive Matches LOST	World Cup Edition
Zimbabwe	18	1983-1987-1992

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Comprehensive Victories

                 After close finises and tied matches... Lets see comprehensive victories. Its always the minnows, who had fate of to be at loosing side in those comprehensive victories. however there are few incidences where  Top test playing team is also on the loosing side.

In terms of Runs

Runs	Team Won	Team Lost	World Cup Edition
257	India	Bermuda	2007
256	Australia	Namibia	2003
243	Sri Lanka	Bermuda	2007
231	South Africa	Netherlands	2011
229	Australia	Netherlands	2007

                    Netherlands achieved this unfortunate fate 4 times in top 10 list (two of which came in successive matches of 2007 against Australia and South Africa respectively.) 5 out of TOP 10 comprehensive victories came in 2007 and 4 in 2011. 
              Though India is leading  this list, Major Test team loosing by highest margin is also India (India faced this against England in first edition of world cup by 202 Runs. This was the Infamous match for Gavaskar when he carried Bat in one day match with score of 36 runs of 174 deliveries !!!)     


In Terms of Overs remained

 

Overs remained	Team Won	Team Lost	World Cup Edition
46.1	England	Canada	1979*
45.2	Sri Lanka	Canada	2003
42	New Zealand	Kenya	2011
40	Sri Lanka	Ireland	2007

* 60 overs match

         
                There are 11 incidences of 10 wickets clean sweep in world cup history. India leading the list with registering first 10 wicket victory.  Pakistan, England and West Indies are the only Major team appearing in the list of 10 wickets lost other than minnows.

           

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Tied Matches !!!

                After close encounters, Lets see tied matches. World Cup experienced 4 encounters which ended up in Tie. All the counters happened after 90s in different parts of World. South Africa experienced this Twice.

Team 1	Team 2	World Cup Edition
Australia	South Africa	1999
South Africa	Sri Lanka	2003
Ireland	Zimbabwe	2007
India	England	2011

  
              Encounter between Australia and South Africa in 1999 World cup considered as one of the all time close encounter. Because of sheer miscommunication Dream run of South Africa again stopped at semi final making their stamp as CHOKERS bright !

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Close Encounters !!!

               One Day cricket brought the concept of Close finishes. With the World title at stake number of close finises increased. Following is the list of really close encounters in World Cup history.

Close finishes by Runs:

Margin	Team Won	Team Lost	World Cup Edition
1 Run	Australia	India	1987
1 Run	Australia	India	1992
2 Run	Sri Lanka	England	2007

                     India has lost 4 times with single digit margin most by any Team makes them a candidate who can not handle pressure cooker situation. Australia beat them twice in successive world cup first played at Indian soil other at Australian soil.

Close finishes by Wickets:

 

Margin	Team Won	Team Lost	World Cup Edition
1 Wicket	West Indies	Pakistan	1975
1 Wicket	Pakistan	West Indies	1987
1 Wicket	South Africa	Sri Lanka	2007
1 Wicket	England	West Indies	2007

                     WI has lost 3 times with less than or equal to 2 Wickets most by any Team.

 THE COMPLETE MATCH:

                         World Cup encounter between Pakistan and West Indies can be called as Complete World Cup match. This is only match which completed with no balls remained with Pakistan winning the Match by 1 Wicket on last delivery. This is the only match in World Cup where both team played full quota of 50 overs and there is Result !

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                            WORLD CUP CRICKET STATISTICS  !!!!!

                      World Cup 2015 is just round the corner !!! Biggest event!!! which entire cricket loving fraternity eagerly waits.... From ruthless batting of Sir Viv Richards to unbelievable 175 of Kapil Dev.... From fastest four of Garner Roberts Holding Marshal to unpredictable  big hitting of Sanath Jayasurya!!!  Underdogs beating favorites!!! Numerous Close encounters!! From hatrick of Australia's World Cup title to misfortune of England being inventor  of the game to remain runner up for 4 times !!! From 60 overs matches to colorful day night matches!!!

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Highest innings Total in World Cup Match

Score	Team Scoring	Opposition	World Cup Edition
413/5	India	Bermuda	2007
398/5	Sri Lanka	Kenya	1996
377/6	Australia	South Africa	2007
373/6	India	Sri Lanka	1999
370/4	India	Bangladesh	2011

India is an tremoundous record of scoring maximum 370 + in World Cup Matches 3 out of 5 times.


Lowest Innings Total in World Cup Match
 

Score	Team Scoring	Opposition	World Cup Edition
36 all out	Canada	Sri Lanka	2003
45 all out	Canada	England	1979
45 all out	Namibia	Australia	2003
58 all out	Bangladesh	West Indies	2011

Its always miniows who face the this fate of getting out at low score. It was big misfortune for Bangladesh to experince it on home soil. 

Lowest score of major Test playing nation is Pakistan. Pakistan bowled out for 74 against England in their league encounter in 1992 World Cup (Though Due to Rain there was no result for Match).. Surprisingly in same World cup Pakistan went on to claim their first World Cup Title !!!

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