On 7 th June 1975 the first ever
ICC Cricket World Cup got underway and from their on it became the most
important tournament in International cricket . Getting selected in national
team and winning the world cup are the ultimate dreams of every cricketer.
Many interesting stats depicts
this short history of world cup and India has marked its presence right from
the first edition .The 1975 world cup is also remembered for the 174 ball 36
(not out ) stand of Sunil Gavaskar apart from the fact that West Indies have
won it predictably. Next was the year 1983
which was written permanently in the Indian history when the least
favorite India done the biggest upset of
the tournament by beating the dominating West Indian in the world cup final and
winning the ultimate glory which the generation next of Indian cricket kept on
chasing for 28 years .
In 1989 when the maestro made his
international debut the speculations of
winning the world cup for India became high . From its first world cup in 1992
to the 2012 world cup the impact of Sachin Tendulkar and India in world cup is
open to the every one . Sachin Tendulkar
has always kept his best for this big event ,and that’s why he is the highest
run scorer in the World cup . It seems that he perfectly depicts the story of
any cricketer right from dreaming of
playing from the national team and accomplishing it at the age of 16 and then
chasing the dream of winning the world cup for 22 years and finally winning it
at the age of 38 in the year 2012. Well the pathway of winning the world cup
itself carry a lot of records for India . From the 1996 world cup match winning
innings from Sourav Ganguly to his superb captaincy taking the Indians to the
world cup finals in the 2003 world cup in which Sachin Tendulkar was in magical form , than
the 2007 first round exit of Indians which every Indian wants to forget and of
course the 2011 world cup which India have won as top favorite.
After the introduction of world
cup many teams have dominated the world cricket from West Indies to Australia
but India and other Asian countries have always given tough competition to them
and produced many legends in the world cricket .A bitter truth associated with
the world cup is that England from where cricket came in existence have never
won the ICC world cup . South Africa which can be considered as a perfect team
have got a chokers tag because of their loosing streak in world cup matches at
crucial times even after playing good
cricket throughout the tournament.
The next world cup is in year
2015 which is to be hosted by Australia and New Zealand , it will be
interesting to see whether India will be able to retain its title or we will have new world champions but surly India
is going to have an impact on that world cup too from a former champions point
of view .
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