Dear Aspirants, here we provide detail information about ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 which held from 30th May to 14th July 2019 at London and Wales. This information is important Current Affairs Sports GK for all competitive examination.
- Edition of 2019 cricket world cup- 12th
- 13th Edition 2023 held in- India
- from 30th May to 14th July 2019
- 2019 World cup hosted by –England and Wales
- England and Wales hosted the world cup-5th time (1975, 1979, 1983, 1999 &2019)
- The final match played on 14 July 2019 at –Lord’s, London
- Participants-10 Teams
- Total matches-48
- Format- Round Robin and Knockout
- Final match Ground– Lords( London)
- Winner Team- England (By boundary count)
- Runners up-New Zealand
- The official song of cricket world cup 2019 – ‘Stand By’ with LORYN and Rudimental across all streaming platforms.
- Total officials match are-22( 16 umpires + 6 match referees)
- Only Indian umpire was selected by ICC for world cup 2019- Sundaram Ravi
- Which team played its first-ever world cup in 2019-
- 2023 cricket world cup 13th edition hosted by- India (only)
- India hosted Partially in 1987, 1996 and 2011
- Man of the series/ The player of the Tournament – Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
Man of the match/ The player of the match –Ben Stokes (England)
- World cup match was tied- 5 times
- The world record for most catches in the world cup- Joe Root (13 catches), England
Previous record world cup 2003 Ricky pointing (11 catches) Australia
- Most runs- Rohit sharma 648 (India)
Last record – David warner 647 (Australia)
- Highest Individual score –David warner (166 runs )of Australia against Bangladesh
Last record-Jason Roy, 153 runs (England)
- Most run in the world cup as a captain 2019- Kane Williamson (578 runs)
Last run record – Mahela Jayawardene 548 in the year 2007
- Most wickets in the world cup 2019- Mitchell Starc (27),Australia
- Highest Run Team- England 397/9 (against Afghanistan)
- Lowest Run Team- Pakistan 105 against West Indies
- Fastest century in world cup 2019- Eoin Morgan (England) in 57 Balls
- Fastest 50 – Ales Garey(Australia) in 25 Balls
- Most four’s –Rohit Sharma 67
- Most six’s – Eoin morgan 22
- Best bowling figure-Shaheen Afraid (35-6 against Bangladesh)
- Rohit Sharma becomes the 1st cricketer who scored 5 centuries(500) in a single ICC world cup
- Muhammad Shami 1st cricketer hat trick and Trent Boult (Newzeland)
- Semifinalist- India vs New Zealand, and Australia vs England
- The 1st hat trick was taken by – Chetan Sharma (India)
- Country Hosted most of the world cup- England (5 Times) 1975, 1979, 1983, 1999, 2019.
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