1999 Cricket World Cup

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox cricket tournament 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Format

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.

Qualification

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The eight teams which participated in the tournament.Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Team	Method of qualification	Finals appearances	Last appearance	Previous best performance	Group
Template:Cr	Hosts	7th	1996	Runners-up Template:Small	A
Template:Cr	Full member	7th	1996	Champions Template:Small	B
Template:Cr		7th	1996	Champions Template:Small	A
Template:Cr		7th	1996	Semi-finals Template:Small	B
Template:Cr		7th	1996	Champions Template:Small)	B
Template:Cr		3rd	1996	Semi-finals Template:Small	A
Template:Cr		7th	1996	Champions Template:Small)	A
Template:Cr		7th	1996	Champions Template:Small)	B
Template:Cr		5th	1996	Group stage Template:Small	A
Template:Cr	1997 ICC Trophy winner	1st	—	Debut	B
Template:Cr	1997 ICC Trophy runner-up	2nd	1996	Group stage Template:Small)	A
Template:Cr	1997 ICC Trophy third place	1st	—	Debut	B

Venues

England

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

Outside England

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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Group stage

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts	PCF
1	Template:Cr	5	4	1	0	0	0.86	8	2
2	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	1.28	6	0
3	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.02	6	4
4	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	−0.33	6	N/A
5	Template:Cr	5	2	3	0	0	−0.81	4	N/A
6	Template:Cr	5	0	5	0	0	−1.20	0	N/A

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Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	T	NRR	Pts	PCF
1	Template:Cr	5	4	1	0	0	0.51	8	4
2	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.73	6	0
3	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.58	6	2
4	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.50	6	N/A
5	Template:Cr	5	2	3	0	0	−0.52	4	N/A
6	Template:Cr	5	0	5	0	0	−1.93	0	N/A

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Super Six

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.65	6	4
2	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.36	6	0
3	Template:Cr	5	3	2	0	0	0.17	6	2
4	Template:Cr	5	2	2	1	0	−0.52	5	2
5	Template:Cr	5	2	2	1	0	−0.79	5	4
6	Template:Cr	5	1	4	0	0	−0.15	2	0
	Source: Cricinfo

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Semi-finals

• 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.<ref>1999 World Cup Playing Conditions - "When two teams have both equal points and equal wins, the team which was the winner of the match played between them (in either the Group or Super Six Matches) will be placed in the higher position.". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 July 2024.</ref>

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Statistics

Leading run scorers

Runs	Player	Country
461	Rahul Dravid	Template:Cr
398	Steve Waugh	Template:Cr
379	Sourav Ganguly	Template:Cr
375	Mark Waugh	Template:Cr
368	Saeed Anwar	Template:Cr

Leading wicket takers

Wickets	Player	Country
20	Geoff Allott	Template:Cr
20	Shane Warne	Template:Cr
18	Glenn McGrath	Template:Cr
17	Lance Klusener	Template:Cr
17	Saqlain Mushtaq	Template:Cr

Match balls

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,<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> experiments showed they were harder and swung more.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Media

The host broadcasters for television coverage of the tournament were Sky and BBC Television.<ref name="UK broadcast">Template:Cite news</ref> In the UK, live games were divided between the broadcasters, with both screening the final live.<ref name="UK broadcast"/> 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.<ref name="BSkyB Tests">Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

• Template:Usurped in CricketFundas
• Cricket World Cup 1999 from Cricinfo