Thursday, 15 August 2013

Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of one Day International (ODI) cricket. Case is organized by the sport's overseeing body, the International Cricket Local authority or council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds prior to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events, ranked behind only the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics, and is the "flagship event of the international cricket calendar" by the ICC.
The first World Cup was organized in The united kingdom in August 1975, with the first ODI cricket match having been played only four years prior. However, a separate Women's Cricket World Cup had been held two years before the first men's contest, and a tournament involving multiple international teams had been held since 1912, when a "triangular" contest of Test matches was played between Australia, The united kingdom and South Africa. All the first three World Glasses were held in The united kingdom. From the 1987 contest onwards, hosting has been shared between countries under an unofficial turn system, with 18 ICC members having hosted at least one match in the tournament. Hosting of a single edition is often shared between neighboring countries-the tournament's most recent edition (held in 2011 and won by India, was shared between Bangladesh, The Indian subcontinent, and Sri-Lanka.
The finals of the World Cup are fought for by all ten full members of the ICC (that is, Test-playing teams) and a number of teams (four at the 2011 tournament) made up from associate and affiliate members of the ICC, selected via the world Cricket League and a later getting qualification tournament. A total of 19 teams have competed in the ten editions of the tournament, with 14 competing in the 2011 contest. Australia has won the tournament a record four times, with the West Indies, The Indian subcontinent (twice each), Pakistan and Sri-Lanka (once each) also having won the contest. The best performance by a non-full-member team at the tournament came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 contest

Before the first Cricket World Cup:
The first ever international cricket match was played between The us and the united states, on the 24 and 25 September 1844 However, the first credited Test match was played in 1877 between Australia and England, and the two teams competed regularly for the Ashes in subsequent years. South Photography equipment was admitted to test status in 1889. Representative cricket teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition. Cricket was also included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris, france Games, where Britain defeated England to win the gold medal. This became the only appearance of cricket at the Summer Olympics.
The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Contest, a Test cricket contest played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa. Case was not a success: summer months was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and attendances were poor, caused by a "surfeit of cricket". In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organized as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organized again prior to the quadrangular Cookware Test Champion in 1999.
The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, The indian subcontinent in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, 4 to 5 days.
In the early 60s, English local cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup, and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in The united kingdom. A national Sunday Little league was formed in 1969. The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd. It was a forty over match with eight balls per over. In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket (WSC) competition, and it introduced many of the features of one Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including colored uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera aspects, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics. The firstly the matches with colored uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC Western side Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 Economy is shown 1979. The success and popularity of the domestic one-day competitive events in England and other parts of the world, as well as the early One-Day Internationals, prompted the ICC to consider organizing a Cricket World Cup.

Qualification: Test-playing nations qualify automatically for the World Cup main event, while the other teams have to qualify through a series of preliminary getting qualification tournaments. The one Day International playing nations automatically enter the final qualification contest, the World Cup Qualifier, along with other nations who have qualified through separate competitive events.

Qualifying tourneys were introduced for the second World Cup, where two of the eight places in the finals were awarded to the leading teams in the ICC Trophy. The number of teams selected through the ICC Trophy has varied throughout the years; currently, six teams are selected for the Cricket World Cup. The world Cricket Little league (administered by the International Cricket Council) is the qualification system provided to allow the Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC more opportunities to qualify. The name "ICC Trophy" has been changed to "ICC World Cup Qualifier".

Under the current getting qualification process, the world Cricket Little league, all 91 Associate and Affiliate members of the ICC are able to qualify for the World Cup. Associate and Affiliate members must play between two and five stages in the ICC World Cricket Little league to qualify for the World Cup finals, depending on the Division in which they start the getting qualification process.

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