Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International cricket.
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13 Facts About Cricket World Cup
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However, a separate Women's Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men's tournament, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held as early as 1912, when a triangular tournament of Test matches was played between Australia, England and South Africa.
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Cricket World Cup was included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games, where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal.
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Inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at the time.
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At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event.
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The World Cup was won by England, whose boundary count was greater than New Zealand's.
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The World Cricket League was the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify.
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Format of the Cricket World Cup has changed greatly over the course of its history.
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Format used in the 2007 World Cup involved 16 teams allocated into four groups of four.
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Format used in the 2011 and 2015 World Cups featured two groups of seven teams, each playing in a round-robin format.
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ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is presented to the winners of the World Cup.
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