World Cups are always special and when the top teams come together to watch riveting games of cricket. The Cricket World Cup is held every four years and each World Cup has given the fans something to remember about.
There have been many records and facts that each World Cup has recorded and there are some facts that are still unknown to the facts. While the fans keep searching for Cricket News here and there, we bring to them three unknown facts about cricket World Cup that are not known by many:
1) Zimbabwe misses the World Cup
Zimbabwe have declined a lot in the past couple of decades but during the time of the start of the first ever World Cup, they were a force to reckon with. Zimbabwe missed their first World Cup when they failed to qualify for the last World Cup which held in England in 2019
2) There were only 10 participating teams in the 2019 World Cup
Over the years, there have seen different formats of the ODI World Cup but there is no one format that was followed in all the World Cups. The 2019 World Cup was the first time exactly 10 teams played the World Cup and it was one of the thrilling World Cups in a long time since only the top ten nations took part in that.
3) England have hosted the event a record 5 times
England is known as the Home of Cricket and the place where the sport was invented. The first three World Cups were held in England along with the World Cups in 1999 and 2019. They made it a record of hosting the World Cup the most times with the commencement of the last World Cup in 2019.
