<h1 title="Australia, cricket, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies, World Cup History, World Cup Timeline, Yuvraj Singh">Interesting facts upon Cricket World Cup History </h1>

• Coloured clothing in world cup was first introduced in World Cup in 1992Neutral umpires firstly umpired the world cup in 1987.
• The 1992 Cricket World Cup proved to be a platform for many of the changes in ODI cricket, many of those changings are still applicable in the modern day cricket.
• Some of the important changes there were introduced in the 1992Cricket World Cup were ‘White Cricket Ball’ and ‘Colored Clothings’. Prior to this World Cup, all matches were played with traditional white clothes and red balls
• The 1992 Cricket World Cup was also the first tournament to feature and African Test Nation i.e. South Africa.
• The 1996 Cricket World Cup was co-hosted by Srilanka, India and Pakistan. Moreover, SriLanka became the first HOST to win the World Cup. 
• The win of Srilanka was a really memorable one, because Australia and West Indies both refused to play the matches against Srilanka IN Srilanka due to security concerns. These matches were awarded to Srilanka by default. Later, Srilanka was again rewarded with the Semi-Final victory against India because of crowd rights. This led Srilanka to finals against Australia, where Australia tasted defeat, and Srilanka won their first ever Cricket World Cup  
•  In World Cup, The 3rd umpire first umpired in 1996.
• The matches in world cup were reduced from 60 over’s to 50 over’s in 1987.
• Sri Lanka became the first site batting second to win the world cup in 1996.
• Chetan Sharma (India) is the first player to take a hat-trick in the world cup. He clean bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield of New Zealand.
• The actual ICC trophy is not awarded since 1999, the trophy is awarded is exact replica except the name inscribed on the trophy. The actual trophy is kept at ICC head-quarters.
• Australia has not lost any match after the defeat in the 1999 world cup match against Pakistan.
•  Australia is the only team to win 4 ICC Cricket World Cups (the most by any other team)
• Australia is the only team to remain unbeaten in any ODI WORLD CUP (2003). This feat was repeated again the ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007, where Australia remained unbeaten
• One of the biggest upset in the2007 World Cup was Ireland beating Pakistan in a group match, knocking Pakistan out of the tournament. 
• This was Srilanka’s 2^nd appearance in a World Cup final’s match, while it was Australia’s 6^th appearance in a World Cup final match, and 4^th in a row. 
• Australia won the final match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, and won the tournament undefeated and untouched, completing the winning streak of 29 world cup matches without tasting any defeat. 
• The ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2011 was supposed to be co-hosted by Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh and India, but due to some sad moments and concerns, Pakistan’s right to host the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was revoked. 
•  In ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Shahid Afridi, the Pakistani Captain, created a record of having 4 or more wickets, in more than 4 World Cup matches. 
• Yuvraj Singh, the Indian All-rounder, shined in the World Cup2011, and was named 'Man Of the Match' for 4 consecutive matches, for his phenomenal performances.