{"id":35853,"date":"2019-05-30T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=35853"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:48:14","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-cricket-world-cup-by-simon-burnton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/a-brief-history-of-the-cricket-world-cup-by-simon-burnton\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of the Cricket World Cup \u2013 By Simon Burnton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A brief history of the Cricket World Cup \u2013 By\u00a0Simon Burnton<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>Source:<\/b><\/span><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\" The Guardian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 28px; text-transform: uppercase;\"> The Guardian<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">From its humble beginning in 1966, the tournament\u2019s history is filled with English despair and southern hemisphere triumph<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35854 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/history-of-the-Cricket-World-Cup-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Rod Marsh dives in front of first slip to dismiss Tony Greig during the World Cup match between Australian and England at Headingley in 1975. Photograph: Patrick Eagar via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1966<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">In March 1966 Rothman\u2019s and the influential agent Bagenal Harvey announce that a three-game \u201cWorld Cup\u201d will be held in September, to be contested by England, West Indies \u2013 that\u00a0<span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2019-06-21 02:40:20\">summer<\/span>\u2019s tourists \u2013 and an all-star Rest of the World XI to be led by the Australia captain, Bobby Simpson, with the remainder of the team chosen \u2013 obviously \u2013 by readers of the Radio Times. Sadly England\u2019s capacity for World Cup fever is exhausted by the football version, and the three matches attract a combined audience of 13,000 to Lord\u2019s. Having not been organised by the International Cricket Council and with teams arbitrarily selected according to convenience and sponsorial whim, this World Cup does not count towards official records. It is the only one England have won.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1969<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Ben Brocklehurst, the former Somerset captain then working for the publisher of the Cricketer magazine, suggests to MCC that a World Cup might be a nice money-spinner. MCC is so enthused by the idea that it immediately spends several years pushing it around various committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1971<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">The ICC discusses the proposal for the first time, and immediately\u00a0<span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2020-03-20 02:40:20\">springs<\/span>\u00a0into action \u2013 cricket administration-style. \u201cThe delegates felt it was a good idea,\u201d reports the Guardian. \u201cThey will report back to their boards at home and submit ideas for collation by a small sub-committee which is being set up.\u201d The Observer\u2019s Tony Pawson, a vocal World Cup supporter, looks forward to \u201cmore years being happily frittered away discussing whether Fiji and Holland should be included and if so how the competition can be organised and financed \u2026. What a pity that the ICC should approach the opportunity as if it was still playing in a timeless Test!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1973<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">The first women\u2019s World Cup is held in England, organised by the players themselves and bankrolled by the former Wolves chairman Sir Jack Hayward. While it is on the ICC finally endorses the idea of a men\u2019s competition and schedules the first one for 1975.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1975<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0England\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0West Indies<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">The first World Cup is, in the words of the Guardian\u2019s Henry Blofeld, \u201ca greater success than anyone could have dared hope\u201d, even if England were bowled out for 93 and easily eliminated by Australia in the semi-finals. The only complaint is that only \u00a320,000 trickles down to the counties, leading to accusations that tickets were too cheap, at \u00a31 for group-stage matches and rising to \u00a33 (about \u00a325 in today\u2019s money) for the final. \u201cI would have thought, on reflection, that some of the games were underpriced,\u201d the ICC\u2019s Peter Lush admits. \u201cCricket from bitter experience of idle turnstiles was scared of pricing itself out of the market in what was, after all, a pilot scheme,\u201d writes Christopher Ford in the Guardian. \u201cNext time it may be different.\u201d Adult tickets for this year\u2019s final range from \u00a395 to \u00a3395.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35855 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/England-Winners-West-Indies-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1559077820446110001_imgsrc_url_4\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.guim.co.uk\/images\/email\/icons\/4522a97665a843f59d065493368c7200\/camera.png\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" \/>West Indies fans rush on to the ground after West Indies beat England by 92 runs in the World Cup final at Lord\u2019s in June 1979. Photograph: Graham Turner\/The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1979<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0England\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0West Indies<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">After a pre-final snafu concerning the allocation of tickets to players \u2013 they were initially given two each, which rose to three after protests from both captains \u2013 \u201cIt seemed a bit much when a player had to choose between leaving at home one of his parents or his wife,\u201d says Mike Brearley \u2013 the overwhelming favourites, West Indies, smash England at Lord\u2019s. Viv Richards and Collis King put on \u201ca batting display almost beyond the scope of our British imagination\u201d, according to the Guardian\u2019s Scyld Berry. King, coming in at 99 for four, strikes 86 off 66 balls \u2013 in terms of strike rate the fourth most brutal innings in ODI history at the time \u2013 and Richards a comparatively pedestrian 138 off 157. England\u2019s response starts with Brearley and Boycott putting on 129 for the first wicket, the bad news being that it takes a shade over 37 overs to do it. \u201cThe partnership was splendid of its kind \u2013 the highly competent, English five-day Test\u2011match kind,\u201d writes Berry. By the time they depart the target is out of reach, and England make absolutely sure of defeat by losing their last eight wickets for 12 runs in 25 balls.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1983<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0England\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0India<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">This tournament features the first genuine World Cup giant-killing, as the debutants Zimbabwe beat Australia in their opening game. India come into the tournament as 40-1 outsiders having only won one match in their first two World Cups (and that against the combined East Africa team who were thrashed by all of their opponents in 1975), play West Indies \u2013 who have a 100% World Cup record \u2013 in their opening match, win, and then keep winning. When they beat England to set up a second meeting with West Indies in the final, Matthew Engel is so convinced of their inferiority that he writes in the Guardian that \u201cthe prime hope must be that the competitors do not turn out to be too mismatched to provide a suitable climax to this magnificently successful event\u201d. India win a slow-scoring final by 43 runs. Digesting this upset, Engel is unrepentant. \u201cIf the same personnel could be reassembled in the same circumstances another 50 times, India probably would not win again,\u201d he insists. \u201cIt is a bit like the infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters eventually writing Hamlet. And there were an infinite number of typewriter-types feeling like monkeys on Saturday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35856 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Winners-India-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1559077820446110001_imgsrc_url_6\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.guim.co.uk\/images\/email\/icons\/4522a97665a843f59d065493368c7200\/camera.png\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" \/>Kapil Dev receives the World Cup after India\u2019s triumph at Lord\u2019s in 1983, having come into the tournament as 40-1 outsiders. Photograph: Patrick Eagar\/Patrick Eagar via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1987<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0India\/Pakistan\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">For the first time the tournament is played outside England, while innings are reduced in length by 10 overs to a maximum of 50. \u201cEverybody in our side believes that we are expert enough to win this World Cup,\u201d insists the England manager, Mickey Stewart, before the tournament, and they get close, losing against Australia in the final by the wafer-thin margin of seven runs. Mike Gatting is blamed by many after getting out reverse-sweeping Allan Border\u2019s first delivery. \u201cI was trying to exploit large gaps on the off side,\u201d he says. \u201cUltimately it was like every other dismissal \u2013 any shot which gets you out is a crap shot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1992<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0Australia\/New Zealand\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Pakistan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">England reach their third and, to date, last final, at the end of a tournament featuring the first appearance of such novelties as coloured kits, white balls and South Africa \u2013 eventually beaten by the English in a ludicrous, rain-affected semi-final which concludes with an achievable pre-downpour target of 22 runs in 13 balls being amended to 21 off just one. The hosts flop badly, Australia dumped out in the round-robin stage. Pakistan win only one of their first five games but crucially win all of their last five to snaffle the trophy, roused by an infamously inspiring address by Imran Khan about cornered tigers, based largely on a picture of a tiger that happened to be on his T-shirt that day. \u201cAll I know is that after those 15 minutes, I haven\u2019t had that feeling ever before and I never had it again after,\u201d says Aaqib Javed. \u201cI could feel that nobody could face me or stop me. In those 15 minutes, life changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35857 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Winners-Sri-Lanka-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1559077820446110001_imgsrc_url_8\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.guim.co.uk\/images\/email\/icons\/4522a97665a843f59d065493368c7200\/camera.png\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" \/>Aravinda De Silva raises his bat in triumph as he leaves the field after leading Sri Lanka to victory in the 1996 World Cup final against Australia in Lahore. Photograph: John Parkin\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1996<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0Pakistan\/India\/Sri Lanka\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Sri Lanka<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Sri Lanka qualify for the quarter-finals before a game is played, when Australia and West Indies refused to travel there citing security concerns, thus handing the co-hosts a pair of walkovers \u2013 and go on to win the entire tournament, becoming the first team to win a World Cup final batting second. That the beaten finalists were Australia, one of the reluctant travellers, only added to Sri Lanka\u2019s satisfaction. They reach that stage in unusual circumstances, awarded victory over India by the match referee after frustrated home fans in Calcutta force the players off the field under a shower of bottles and assorted debris.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">1999<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0England\/Wales\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">A tournament primarily remembered for the remarkable progress through the latter stages of Australia. Victory against South Africa in the final match of the Super Six stage \u2013 featuring Steve Waugh\u2019s now legendary if disappointingly apocryphal put-down to Herschelle Gibbs, \u201cYou just dropped the World Cup\u201d \u2013 means the Australians qualify to play the same opponents in the semi-finals, a match of constantly shifting fortunes widely considered the greatest ODI of all time. \u201cOn the boundary I remember thinking, \u2018We\u2019re going to win this. No, we\u2019re going to lose this. No, we\u2019re going to win this.\u2019 Every over,\u201d says Michael Bevan. In fact they draw it, Australia go through to the final because they finished above their rivals in the Super Sixes, and they proceed to thrash Pakistan to win their second World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35858 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Winners-Australia-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1559077820446110001_imgsrc_url_10\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.guim.co.uk\/images\/email\/icons\/4522a97665a843f59d065493368c7200\/camera.png\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" \/>Ricky Ponting is carried on the shoulders of his teammates with the World Cup after their victory against India in the 2003 final in Johannesburg. Photograph: Jon Hrusa\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">2003<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0South Africa\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Another World Cup, another unusual elimination for South Africa, this time the hosts. As rain falls during their last game of the pool stages they get their Duckworth-Lewis calculations wrong, make no attempt to score a run from what becomes the final ball of the match and so secure only a tie. Thus they, like England, Pakistan and West Indies, fall at the first hurdle while Zimbabwe (thanks to a walkover when England refuse to play in Harare) and Kenya (thanks to New Zealand\u2019s refusal to play in Nairobi) progress \u2013 the latter going all the way to the semi-finals. Australia retain their trophy after beating India with great ease in the final, ending in glory a tournament that had begun in ignominy as Shane Warne was sent home after failing a routine drug test. Warne insists it was \u201ca fluid tablet\u201d intended \u201cto get rid of a double chin\u201d; a disciplinary committee declares his evidence \u201cunsatisfactory\u201d and bans him for a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">2007<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0West Indies\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">Australia win again, their third tournament in a row. But much attention is diverted from the cricket by the death of the Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, whose body is found in his hotel room the day after their elimination in the group stage at the hands of Ireland. More frivolously Andrew Flintoff engages in some infamous drunken pedalo-borrowing, after deciding at about 1.30am one morning to check some boats moored offshore to see if any of them contain Ian Botham. \u201cI thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to have a nightcap with Beefy,\u2019\u201d he explains. It is not the most farcical activity undertaken after sunset by a cricketer: the final three overs of a final already basically won are inexplicably played out in virtual darkness in a move described by the ICC chief executive, Malcolm Speed, as \u201ca fundamental error which should not have happened\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35859 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Winners-India2011-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"1559077820446110001_imgsrc_url_12\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.guim.co.uk\/images\/email\/icons\/4522a97665a843f59d065493368c7200\/camera.png\" height=\"12\" border=\"0\" \/>Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni celebrate their victory in the 2011 World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka in Mumbai. Photograph: Prakash Singh\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">2011<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0India\/Sri Lanka\/Bangladesh\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0India<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">On 19 March 2011 Australia lose a World Cup match to Pakistan, ending an unbeaten run that goes back 34 games and 12 years. Instead Sri Lanka reach their third final in five tournaments and India become the first team to win a home World Cup \u2013 their support in Mumbai for the final is so vociferous that the coin toss has to be retaken because the match referee could not hear Kumar Sangakkara\u2019s call the first time round. Elsewhere history is made by Kevin O\u2019Brien, who scores the fastest century in World Cup history, off a mere 50 deliveries, as Ireland thrillingly beat England in the group stage. In the second instalment of England\u2019s solo attempt to render the group stage interesting they lose against Bangladesh in Chittagong, sparking scenes of wild celebration outside the ground that continue so long that it is 2.30am by the time England are able to leave their dressing room.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">2015<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\"><strong>Hosts<\/strong>\u00a0Australia\/New Zealand\u00a0<strong>Winners<\/strong>\u00a0Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000080;\">\u201cWe would have to have an absolute stinker not to make the quarter-finals,\u201d says Stuart Broad before the tournament begins. England do not make the quarter-finals, demonstrating a profound misunderstanding of what a modern limited-overs team should look and indeed play like. The southern hemisphere provides the three outstanding teams, with New Zealand beating South Africa in a thrilling semi-final \u2013 \u201cOne of the most extraordinary, intoxicating sporting events I have ever attended,\u201d writes Mike Selvey \u2013 thanks to a penultimate-ball six, with five needed to win, from the Johannesburg-born Grant Elliott. But they have no answer to a Mitchell-based Starc\/Johnson pace attack in the final, as for the fourth time in five the trophy ends up in Australian hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\nstyle=\"display:block\"\ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\"\ndata-ad-slot=\"7875984934\"\ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"\ndata-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief history of the Cricket World Cup \u2013 By\u00a0Simon Burnton Source: The Guardian From its humble beginning in 1966, the tournament\u2019s history is filled with English despair and southern hemisphere triumph Rod Marsh dives in front of first slip to dismiss Tony Greig during the World Cup match between Australian and England at Headingley 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