Sri Lanka 265/9 (50 ov)
New Zealand 153 (35.0 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 112 runs
Ireland win
Netherlands 306 (50 ov)
Ireland 307/4 (47.4 ov)
Ireland won by 6 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
Aus win
Canada 211 (45.4 ov)
Australia 212/3 (34.5 ov)
Australia won by 7 wickets (with 91 balls remaining)
Great win Pakistan
Zimbabwe 151/7 (39.4/39.4 ov)
Pakistan 164/3 (34.1/38 ov)
Pakistan won by 7 wickets (with 23 balls remaining) (D/L method)
Match Delayed
Zimbabwe 96/5 (27.2 ov)
Pakistan
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat
Match delayed by a wet outfield
Bangladesh Win
Netherlands 160 v Bangladesh 166/4 (41.2 ov)
Bangladesh won by 6 wickets (with 52 balls remaining)
Bangladesh won by 6 wickets (with 52 balls remaining)
Sth Africa win
India 296 v Sth Africa 300/7 (49.4 ov)
Sth Africa won by 3 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
Wonderfull Win Bangladesh
England 225 v Bangladesh 227/8 (49 ov)
Bangladesh won by 2 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
Up coming
Ireland v West Indies 27th Match, Group B
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT | 09:00 PKT
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT | 09:00 PKT
Bangladesh v England 28th Match, Group B
14:30 local | 08:30 GMT | 13:30 PKT
14:30 local | 08:30 GMT | 13:30 PKT
Up coming
England v Sth Africa 21st Match, Group B
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT | 09:00 PKT
Preview
India v Ireland 22nd Match, Group B
14:30 local | 09:00 GMT | 14:00 PKT
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT | 09:00 PKT
Preview
India v Ireland 22nd Match, Group B
14:30 local | 09:00 GMT | 14:00 PKT
History
Before the first Cricket World Cup
The first ever international cricket match was played between Canada 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 Africa 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 Games , where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal.This was the only appearance of cricket at the Summer OlympicsThe first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament , a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa. The event was not a success: the summer was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and attendances were poor, attributed to a "surfeit of cricket". In subsequent years, international Test cricket has been generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship 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, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.
In the early 1960s, English county 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 England. A national Sunday 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.
The success and popularity of the domestic one-day competitions in England and other parts of the world, as well as the early One-Day Internationals, prompted the ICC to consider organising a Cricket World Cup.
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