1999 Cricket World Cup

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1999 ICC Cricket World Cup

Tournament logo
Dates	14 May – 20 June 1999
Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round robin and Knockout
Host(s)	England Wales Scotland Ireland Netherlands
Champions	Australia (2nd title)
Runners-up	Pakistan
Participants	12
Matches	42
Player of the series	South Africa Lance Klusener
Most runs	India Rahul Dravid (461)
Most wickets	New Zealand Geoff Allott (20) Australia Shane Warne (20)
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The 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup, also branded as England '99, was the seventh edition of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was hosted primarily by England, with selected matches also played in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands. The tournament was won by Australia, who beat Pakistan by 8 wickets in the final at Lord's in London.

The tournament was hosted three years after the previous Cricket World Cup, deviating from the usual four-year gap.^[1]

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.

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 Kenya and Bangladesh qualify through to the World Cup. Scotland would be the third nation to qualify as they defeated Ireland in the third-place playoff.^[2]

Team	Method of qualification	Finals appearances	Last appearance	Previous best performance	Group
England	Hosts	7th	1996	Runners-up (1979, 1987, 1992)	A
Australia	Full member	7th	1996	Champions (1987)	B
India		7th	1996	Champions (1983)	A
New Zealand		7th	1996	Semi-finals (1975, 1979, 1992)	B
Pakistan		7th	1996	Champions (1992 )	B
South Africa		3rd	1996	Semi-finals (1992)	A
Sri Lanka		7th	1996	Champions (1996 )	A
West Indies		7th	1996	Champions (1975, 1979 )	B
Zimbabwe		5th	1996	Group stage (All)	A
Bangladesh	1997 ICC Trophy winner	1st	—	Debut	B
Kenya	1997 ICC Trophy runner-up	2nd	1996	Group stage (1996 )	A
Scotland	1997 ICC Trophy third place	1st	—	Debut	B

Venue	City	Capacity	Matches
Edgbaston Cricket Ground	Birmingham, West Midlands	21,000	3
County Cricket Ground	Bristol	8,000	2
St Lawrence Ground	Canterbury, Kent	15,000	1
County Cricket Ground	Chelmsford, Essex	6,500	2
Riverside Ground	Chester-le-Street, County Durham	15,000	2
County Cricket Ground	Derby, Derbyshire	9,500	1
County Cricket Ground	Hove, Sussex	7,000	1
Headingley	Leeds, West Yorkshire	17,500	3
Grace Road	Leicester, Leicestershire	12,000	2
Lord's	London, Greater London	28,000	3
The Oval	London, Greater London	25,500	3
Old Trafford	Manchester, Greater Manchester	22,000	3
County Cricket Ground	Northampton, Northamptonshire	6,500	2
Trent Bridge	Nottingham, Nottinghamshire	17,500	3
County Cricket Ground	Southampton, Hampshire	6,500	2
County Cricket Ground	Taunton, Somerset	6,500	2
New Road	Worcester, Worcestershire	4,500	2

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.

Venue	City	Capacity	Matches
Sophia Gardens	Cardiff, Wales	15,653	1
The Grange Club	Edinburgh, Scotland	3,000	2
Clontarf Cricket Club Ground	Dublin, Ireland	3,200	1
VRA Cricket Ground	Amstelveen, Netherlands	4,500	1
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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts	PCF
1	South Africa	5	4	1	0	0	0.86	8	2
2	India	5	3	2	0	0	1.28	6	0
3	Zimbabwe	5	3	2	0	0	0.02	6	4
4	England	5	3	2	0	0	−0.33	6	N/A
5	Sri Lanka	5	2	3	0	0	−0.81	4	N/A
6	Kenya	5	0	5	0	0	−1.20	0	N/A

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts	PCF
1	Pakistan	5	4	1	0	0	0.51	8	4
2	Australia	5	3	2	0	0	0.73	6	0
3	New Zealand	5	3	2	0	0	0.58	6	2
4	West Indies	5	3	2	0	0	0.50	6	N/A
5	Bangladesh	5	2	3	0	0	−0.52	4	N/A
6	Scotland	5	0	5	0	0	−1.93	0	N/A

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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.^{[5] [6] [7]}

Points carried forward (PCF)
Results	Against qualified teams
Win	2 points
No result / tie	1 points
Loss	0 point

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts	PCF
1	Pakistan	5	3	2	0	0	0.65	6	4
2	Australia	5	3	2	0	0	0.36	6	0
3	South Africa	5	3	2	0	0	0.17	6	2
4	New Zealand	5	2	2	1	0	−0.52	5	2
5	Zimbabwe	5	2	2	1	0	−0.79	5	4
6	India	5	1	4	0	0	−0.15	2	0
Source: Cricinfo

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• Australia progressed to the final because they finished higher in the Super Six table than South Africa due to having won their head to head Super Six match.^[8]

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Leading run scorers

Runs	Player	Country
461	Rahul Dravid	India
398	Steve Waugh	Australia
379	Sourav Ganguly	India
375	Mark Waugh	Australia
368	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan

Leading wicket takers

Wickets	Player	Country
20	Geoff Allott	New Zealand
20	Shane Warne	Australia
18	Glenn McGrath	Australia
17	Lance Klusener	South Africa
17	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan

A new type of cricket ball, the white 'Duke', was introduced for the first time in the 1999 World Cup. British Cricket Balls Ltd claimed that the balls behaved identically to the balls used in previous World Cups,^[9] experiments showed they were harder and swung more.^[10]

The host broadcasters for television coverage of the tournament were Sky and BBC Television.^[11] In the UK, live games were divided between the broadcasters, with both screening the final live.^[11] This was to be BBC's last live cricket coverage during that summer, with all of England's home Test series being shown on Channel 4 or Sky from 1999 onwards; the BBC did not show any live cricket again until August 2020.^[12]

• Cricket World Cup 1999 Scorecards ^[usurped] in CricketFundas
• Cricket World Cup 1999 from Cricinfo

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