2019 Cricket World Cup

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2019 Cricket World Cup

Official logo

Dates 30 May – 14 July

2019

Administrator(s) International Cricket

Council

Cricket format One Day

International

Tournament Round-robin and Kn
format(s) ockout

Host(s)   England
  Wales
Champions  England (1st
title)
 Runners-up  New Zealand
Participants 10
Matches played 48
Player of the  Kane
series Williamson
Most runs  Rohit
Sharma (648)
Most wickets  Mitchell
Starc (27)
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The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a
quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested
by men's national teams and organised by the International Cricket
Council (ICC). It was hosted between 30 May to 14 July across 10
venues in England and a single venue in Wales with the tournament
being the fifth time that England had hosted the World Cup while for
Wales it was their third.
The tournament was contested by 10 teams, a decrease from 14 teams in
the previous edition, with the format of the tournament changing to a
single round-robin group with the top four teams qualifying through to
the knockout stage. After six weeks of round-robin matches, which saw
four games not have a result, India, Australia, England and New
Zealand finished as the top four with Pakistan missing out by net run
rate.
In the knockout stage, England and New Zealand won their respective
semi-finals to qualify for the final, which was played at Lord's in
London. The final ended in a tie after the match ended with both teams
scoring 241 runs, followed by the first Super Over in an ODI; England
won the title, their first, on the boundary countback rule after the Super
Over also finished level. Overall, videos of the group stages amassed
over 2.6 billion views from around the world, making it the most-
watched cricket competition as of 2019.[1