Short Note – 2015 Cricket World Cup

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1. Australia won the
   Cricket World Cup for the fifth time.
2. Man of the Series:
   Mitchell Starc
3. Man of the Match:
   James Faulkner
4. Most Runs: Martin Guptill
5. Most Wickets: Mitchell Starc & Trent
   Boult
6. 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).

1. India (Defending Champion)
2. Australia (Hosting nation)
3. Pakistan
4. South Africa
5. New Zealand (Hosting Nation)
6. West Indies
7. Sri Lanka (Runners up of 2011)
8. Bangladesh
9. Zimbabwe
10. United Arab Emirates
11. Scotland
12. England
13. Ireland
14. Afghanistan(First
    in World Cups)

• 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.
• During India vs
  Banlgadesh the umpires received widespread criticism after some controversial
  decision-making in that match. International Cricket Council President Mustafa
  Kamal said that Bangladesh would appeal against the decisions of the umpires in
  ICC’s board meeting.
• 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.

• Kumar Sungakkara
  (SL) became the second highest run
  scorer in ODIs.
• The match between Australia
  vs England ended when James Anderson was run out straight after James Taylor was
  given out lbw. As Taylor’s decision was reviewed and overturned, the ICC later
  admitted that the ball should have been declared dead (according to Article
  3.6a of Appendix 6 of the Decision Review System Playing Conditions), and so
  Anderson was incorrectly given out.
• 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 highest score by an
  associate nation player in World Cups.
• In Australia vs Sri Lanka, Glenn Maxwell scored his
  first century in an ODI, the second fastest
  in World Cups, and the fastest by an
  Australian in a World Cup (51
  balls). Tillakaratne Dilshan hit six fours off an over, bowled by Mitchell
  Johnson, the first time this has
  happened in World Cup history.
• 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 equalled 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).
• Martin Guptill became
  the first player to score two consecutive centuries for New Zealand in a World Cup.
• The highest
  successful run-chase in a World Cup knockout match came for New Zealand against South Africa in the Semi Finals.
• The first time New Zealand qualified for a World Cup
  final.

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