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* ShootTheTelevision: After defending champions Pakistan lost the quarterfinal to arch enemy India, a Pakistani man was so upset over the prospect of his country’s team not being World Champions anymore, that he shot his TV, [[DrivenToSuicide then shot himself]].
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* DownToTheLastPlay: Two matches between India and Australia in two consecutive world cups would see the match coming down to the last ball of the 50th over - and in both occasions, Australia winning by 1 run. In their league match in the 87 Reliance Cup, India needed 2 runs to win off the last ball. Tail ender Maninder Singh would be bowled for a duck, granting Australia the win. In their match in the 92 World Cup, India needed 4 runs to win off the final ball. Although the ball was hit to the boundary, it was intercepted and thrown back to the pitch. Substitute wicket keeper David Boon would effect a run out as the Indian batsmen attempted to run a third run to tie. Australia would once again, win by just 1 run.
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* ShockingDefeatLegacy: Once the West Indies team was on top of the world, winning two consecutive World Cups and being favored to win a third. But since they lost that final to India, the West Indies have never achieved any success in a World Cup, being seen as an average level team.
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* ShockingDefeatLegacy: Once the West Indies team was on top of the world, winning two consecutive World Cups and being favored to win a third. But since they lost that final to India, the West Indies have never achieved any success in a World Cup, being seen as an average level team. They could not even qualify for the 2023 World Cup, losing out to the Netherlands in a qualifier match.
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* DownOTheLastPlay: The semifinal between Australia and South Africa came down to the last ball. The Proteas needed 3 runs to tie and 4 to win. The Aussies needed to take one more wicket to bowl out the opposition. South African batsman Lance Klussener struck the ball hard, but it was fielded and returned. After running three and attempting a fourth, the other batsman Allan Donald was run out. Because Australia had defeated South Africa in a league match before, they were allowed to go on to the final. And eventually win the cup.
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* DownOTheLastPlay: DownToTheLastPlay: The semifinal between Australia and South Africa came down to the last ball. The Proteas needed 3 runs to tie and 4 to win. The Aussies needed to take one more wicket to bowl out the opposition. South African batsman Lance Klussener struck the ball hard, but it was fielded and returned. After running three and attempting a fourth, the other batsman Allan Donald was run out. Because Australia had defeated South Africa in a league match before, they were allowed to go on to the final. And eventually win the cup.
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In the men's world cup, Australia currently is the most successful World Cup team with 5 men's wins and 2 losing efforts in the finals. The next most successful are India and the West Indies each of whom have 2 wins and 1 losing effort in a final. England is the next most successful with 1 win and 3 times as a losing finalist, followed by Sri Lanka with 1 win and 2 times as losing finalist. Pakistan has 1 win and one loss in a final, while New Zealand has been a losing finalist twice.
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In the men's world cup, Australia currently is the most successful World Cup team with 5 6 men's wins and 2 losing efforts in the finals. The next most successful are is India with 2 wins and 2 losses in the finals, after which the West Indies each of whom have has 2 wins and 1 losing effort in a final. England is the next most successful with 1 win and 3 times as a losing finalist, followed by Sri Lanka with 1 win and 2 times as losing finalist. Pakistan has 1 win and one loss in a final, while New Zealand has been a losing finalist twice.
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The current men's champion is England, having won the World Cup in 2019, while the current women's champion is Australia, having won in 2022.
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The current men's champion is England, Australia, having won the World Cup in 2019, 2023, while the current women's champion is Australia, having won in 2022.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: India had come off an unbeaten streak and victory in the Asia Cup and had won all nine of its round robin league matches, after which they had defeated New Zealand in the semifinal. India was expected to easily dispatch the Australians and win their third World Cup while playing on a ground named after their current prime minister. Instead, the Australians would pull off an upset and defeat India for the second time in a World Cup final between them.
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* ThatOneBoss: New Zealand had for a long time, been India’s bogeyman - a team that had defeated them in all knockout Stage matches they had ever played in, including T20 and World Cup semifinals. This time around, India would overcome NZ to make it to the final.
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* Winners: Australia
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Kapil Dev’s epic match winning knock of 175 runs against Zimbabwe was never televised or even captured on film. This was because the telecasters saw it as an insignificant game no one would be interested in watching. Instead, this was a victory that gave the Indian team a huge boost of confidence that allowed it to win all their remaining games - including the World Cup final.
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* TheDreaded: The Sri Lankan batting lineup and its opening pair of Jayasuriya and Kaluwitharana in particular developed such a fearsome reputation for destroying bowling attacks during the first 15 overs and thereby making a mockery out of any run chase, that teams abandoned a whole lot of conventional wisdom just to counter them. Pace bowlers Philip [=DeFraitas=] of England and Manoj Prabhakar of India switched to bowling off spin in the hope it would curtail Sri Lanka’s left handed batsmen - to no avail. The Indian team even ignored the phenomenon of dew formation late in the evening and its historical assistance to spinners on the Eden Gardens ground that made chasing under lights extremely challenging - opting instead to put Sri Lanka in and chase the score. Predictably, Sri Lanka played a more conventional innings centered around technical batsman Aravinda [=DaSilva=] while the Indian batting order collapsed to Sri Lanka’s spin attack.
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* DownOTheLastPlay: The semifinal between Australia and South Africa came down to the last ball. The Proteas needed 3 runs to tie and 4 to win. The Aussies needed to take one more wicket to bowl out the opposition. South African batsman Lance Klussener struck the ball hard, but it was fielded and returned. After running three and attempting a fourth, the other batsman Allan Donald was run out. Because Australia had defeated South Africa in a league match before, they were allowed to go on to the final. And eventually win the cup.
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! Cricket World Cup 2023
* Location: India
* Participants: India, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
* CurbStompBattle: India inflicted a big one on Sri Lanka. They first put up a mammoth total of 358 runs for the Sri Lankans to chase, and then proceeded to bowl the Sri Lankans out for a mere 56 runs - winning by 302 runs!
* SoreLoser: The Pakistani team became infamous for bellyaching about various “issues” that apparently caused them to lose. They blamed the pitch (not too different from pitches in Pakistan), the ball (claiming ball tampering), the hostile crowds (Of course Indian crowds don’t cheer on Pakistani teams and vice versa), lack of beef to eat (no other team including traditional red meat consumers England and Australia made any similar dietary demands), the absence of the song “Dil Dil Pakistan” being played to motivate the team (they apparently need a home game atmosphere to perform) and finally Islamophobia (the team was mocked for collectively kneeling and praying on the cricket field, something that none of the other Muslim teams did).
* Location: India
* Participants: India, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
* CurbStompBattle: India inflicted a big one on Sri Lanka. They first put up a mammoth total of 358 runs for the Sri Lankans to chase, and then proceeded to bowl the Sri Lankans out for a mere 56 runs - winning by 302 runs!
* SoreLoser: The Pakistani team became infamous for bellyaching about various “issues” that apparently caused them to lose. They blamed the pitch (not too different from pitches in Pakistan), the ball (claiming ball tampering), the hostile crowds (Of course Indian crowds don’t cheer on Pakistani teams and vice versa), lack of beef to eat (no other team including traditional red meat consumers England and Australia made any similar dietary demands), the absence of the song “Dil Dil Pakistan” being played to motivate the team (they apparently need a home game atmosphere to perform) and finally Islamophobia (the team was mocked for collectively kneeling and praying on the cricket field, something that none of the other Muslim teams did).
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The current champion is England, having won the World Cup in 2019.
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The current men's champion is England, having won the World Cup in 2019.2019, while the current women's champion is Australia, having won in 2022.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: Barely averted. The South African cricket team was allowed to participate on one condition - if the referendum to completely repeal Apartheid failed, the team would be ejected, no matter how far they had advanced. Thankfully, the referendum was held and overwhelmingly passed, the day before the first semifinal, thereby allowing South Africa to play in it against England. That semifinal would be shrouded in a completely different controversy (see above).
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This was the first time ever that teams forfeited their matches (and took losses) in a World Cup. Australia and the West Indies refused to play in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka, citing concerns of terrorist attacks by the LTTE. The Sri Lankans called BS; stating that they were just scared to face off spinner Muthaiah Muralitharan, without “sympathetic” umpires to no-ball him. The fact that the Sri Lankan civil war had already been raging for 13 years, both of these teams had visited multiple times in the years before, and India, with whom the rebel LTTE had a genuine beef with, had also visited multiple times, further rubbished their fear of “terrorist acts”.
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* DorkAge: The England team were perennial favorites and three time finalists for the first five instances of the World Cup. Then they entered a prolonged slump beginning in ‘93 and one they wouldn’t emerge from until winning the World Cup outright in a nail-biting finish in 2019.
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* DorkAge: AudienceAlienatingEra: The England team were perennial favorites and three time finalists for the first five instances of the World Cup. Then they entered a prolonged slump beginning in ‘93 and one they wouldn’t emerge from until winning the World Cup outright in a nail-biting finish in 2019.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: This was the tournament in which England forfeit their matches against Zimbabwe to protest against Robert Mugabe’s [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement land grab policies]] (some Australian politicians also called for a boycott, but the rhetoric did not turn into a firm directive, so the match went ahead). More controversy erupted when Zimbabwean cricketers including a prominent African player of Zambian origin wore black armbands in protest of the same policies. A smaller controversy was New Zealand forfeiting their match against Kenya in Nairobi over terrorism fears. Also, Australian spin bowler Shane Warne failed a drug test shortly before the tournament, resulting in him not playing.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: This was the tournament in which England forfeit their matches against Zimbabwe to protest against Robert Mugabe’s [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement land grab policies]] policies (some Australian politicians also called for a boycott, but the rhetoric did not turn into a firm directive, so the match went ahead). More controversy erupted when Zimbabwean cricketers including a prominent African player of Zambian origin wore black armbands in protest of the same policies. A smaller controversy was New Zealand forfeiting their match against Kenya in Nairobi over terrorism fears. Also, Australian spin bowler Shane Warne failed a drug test shortly before the tournament, resulting in him not playing.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Initially, even the prospect of holding a World Cup in India of all places, appalled the administrators of the ICC. After all, it was India, a developing Third World nation, mired in poverty with a barely sputtering economy, with a crushing inept bureaucracy and laughably poor infrastructure. Or so they thought. What actually happened, was that the government, several state governments, several government run enterprises such as Doordarshan the TV channel, the railways, the airlines etc and several private corporations such as Reliance and several hotels,, came together and coordinated efforts in a huge way, often even eschewing short term profits or political capital - to put on the biggest sporting event the country had ever put on! And it was a roaring success, with high crowd attendance and high TV viewership, even for games without India or Pakistan playing.
