ICC World Cup 2015 - Important Short Notes

The 2015 Cricket World Cup was the 11th Cricket World Cup.

• Hosted by-  Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. 
• 2015 Cricket World Cup Ambassador  - Sachin Tendulkar  

This was the second time when the tournament was held in Australia and New Zealand, with the first being the 1992 Cricket World Cup which was won by Pakistan.

Important Points

• Australia won the Cricket World Cup for the fifth time.
• Man of the Series: Mitchell Starc
• Man of the Match: James Faulkner
• Most Runs: Martin Guptill
• Most Wickets: Mitchell Starc & Trent Boult

Teams Played in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup

• India 
• Australia 
• Pakistan
• South Africa
• New Zealand 
• West Indies
• Sri Lanka 
• Bangladesh
• Zimbabwe
• United Arab Emirates
• Scotland
• England
• Ireland
• Afghanistan (First in World Cups)

Indian Highlights at the World Cup 2015

• India defeated Pakistan for the 6th Time in A Row in World Cups.
• For the first time India defeated South Africa in a World Cup match.
• MS Dhoni's 100th ODI win as India captain came against Bangladesh. The first non-Australian captain to won 100 ODI matches and first Indian captain to achieve the mark. He is also the third captain to won 100 matches, after two Australians, Ricky Ponting, and Allan Border.
• A record seventh consecutive match in which India bowled the opposition out.
• India lost to Australia as a result Australia never lost a World Cup Semi Final. As a result of this match, no Asian team qualified for World Cup final, for the first time since 1987.

Key Highlights from World Cup Matches:

• Kumar Sungakkara (SL) became the second highest run scorer in ODIs.
• Four players were dismissed for golden ducks during Scotland's innings against New Zealand, the first such instance in World Cups.
• Shakib Al Hasan became the first Bangladeshi cricketer to achieve 4000 ODI runs.
• Brendon McCullum (NZ) scored the fastest fifty in World Cup history (18 balls), the third-fastest overall and the fastest ODI fifty by a New Zealander.
• Kumar Sungakkara became the fourth cricketer to play 400 ODI matches.
• Dilshan's score of 161 not out was the highest individual score in an ODI without hitting a six.
• The Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, the trophy which is usually the prize in any stand-alone ODI series between Australia and New Zealand.
• Lahiru Thirimanne became the youngest Sri Lankan player to score a century at a World Cup.
• Joe Root became the youngest English player to score a century at a World Cup.
• Australia's score of 417/6 against debutant Afghanistan is the highest in World Cup history. Dawlat Zadran (Afg) became the third bowler in World Cup matches to concede 100 runs or more in an innings. Australia's victory margin of 275 runs is the highest in World Cup history.
• Kyle Coetzer scored Scotland's first ever World Cup century and the highestscore by an associate nation player in World Cups.
• Kumar Sungakkara became the second player to score 14,000 ODI runs, and scored a record third consecutive World Cup century.
• Mahmudullah Riyad became the first Bangladesh player to score two consecutive World Cup centuries.
• Chris Gayle became the first batsman to score a Double Century in a World Cup match and the first ever non-Indian batsman to score an ODI Double Century. Gayle's Double Century was also the fastest Double Century in ODI cricket. Gayle's 16 sixes in his innings equaled the ODI record jointly held by Rohit Sharma and AB de Villiers.
• The first time Pakistan defeated South Africa in a World Cup match.
• Jean Paul Duminy (SA) became the first South African to take a World Cup hat-trick.
• AB de Villiers now holds the records for the most sixes in one World Cup tournament (20) and the most sixes in all World Cup matches (36).
• The highest successful run-chase in a World Cup knockout match came forNew Zealand against South Africa in the Semi Finals.
• The first time New Zealand qualified for a World Cup final.
• Kumar Dharmasena of Sri Lanka was the umpire in World Cup Final. He is the only player to play in a World Cup Final (1996) and umpire in one(2015).
• S.Ravi of India was in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Umpire panel.

Retirements from ODIs

MichaelClarke	Australia
ShahidAfridi	Pakistan
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
MahelaJayawardene	Sri Lanka
KumarSangakkara	Sri Lanka
KhurramKhan	U A E
BrendanTaylor	Zimbabwe