The 1999 Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup '99) was the seventh edition of the

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, organised by the

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(ICC). It was hosted primarily by England, with Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands acting as co-hosts. The tournament was won by

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, who beat

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by 8 wickets in the final at

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in London.

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and

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were the other semi-finalists. The tournament was hosted three years after the previous Cricket World Cup, deviating from the usual four-year gap.

Format

It featured 12 teams, playing a total of 42 matches. In the group stage, the teams were divided into two groups of six; each team played all the others in their group once. The top three teams from each group advanced to the Super Sixes, a new concept for the 1999 World Cup; each team carried forward the points from the games against the other qualifiers from their group and then played each of the qualifiers from the other group (in other words, each qualifier from Group A played each qualifier from Group B and vice versa). The top four teams in the Super Sixes advanced to the semi-finals.

Qualification

The 1999 World Cup featured 12 teams, which was the same as the previous edition in 1996. The hosts England and the eight other test nations earned automatic qualification to the World Cup. The remaining three spots were decided at the 1997 ICC Trophy in Malaysia. 22 nations competed in the 1997 edition of the ICC Trophy. After going through two group stages, the semi-finals saw

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and

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...

qualify through to the World Cup.

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would be the third nation to qualify as they defeated

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in the third-place playoff.

Venues

England

Outside England

Scotland played two of their Group B matches in their home country becoming the first associate nation to host games in a World Cup. One Group B match was played in Wales and Ireland respectively, while one Group A match was played in the Netherlands.

Squads

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Super Six

Teams who qualified for the Super Six stage only played against the teams from the other group; results against the other teams from the same group were carried forward to this stage. Results against the non-qualifying teams were therefore discarded at this point. As a result of League match losses against New Zealand and Pakistan, even though Australia finished second in their group, they progressed to the Super Six stage with no points carried forward (PCF). India faced similar circumstances, finishing 2nd in their group but carrying forward 0 points after losing to fellow qualifiers Zimbabwe and South Africa. During their super six clash, Pakistan and India were officially at war at the time of their match, the only time this has ever happened in the history of the sport. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

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was declared the Player of the Tournament.

Rahul Dravid Rahul Sharad Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is an Indian cricket coach and former List of India national cricket captains, captain of the Indian national cricket team, Indian national team, currently serving as its head coach. Prior to his ...

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scored the most runs (461) in the tournament. Geoff Allott of

and Shane Warne of

tied each other for most wickets taken (20) in the tournament.

Match balls

A new type of

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, the white 'Duke', was introduced for the first time in the 1999 World Cup.

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claimed that the balls behaved identically to the balls used in previous World Cups, experiments showed they were harder and swung more.

Media

The host broadcasters for television coverage of the tournament were Sky and BBC Television. In the UK, live games were divided between the broadcasters, with both screening the

final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...

live. This was to be BBC's last live cricket coverage during that summer, with all of England's home Test series being shown on

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or Sky from 1999 onwards; the BBC did not show any live cricket again until August 2020.

References and notes

External links

Cricket World Cup 1999 Scorecards
in CricketFundas
Cricket World Cup 1999
from

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