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1999 Cricket World Cup

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 Scotland, Ireland, Wales 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.[1]

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

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.[2]

Venues

1999 Cricket World Cup is located in England
Lord's
The Oval
Hove
Hove
Taunton
Canterbury
Leicester
Northampton
Worcester
Bristol
Nottingham
Birmingham
Chelmsford
Southampton
Chester-le-Street
Leeds
Derby
Manchester
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Venues in England

England

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.

Squads

Group stage

Pool A

  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
  • Jimmy Kamande (Ken) made his ODI debut.
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • India were fined four overs for a slow over rate in the first innings.
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
  • Kenya won the toss and elected to field.
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
  • South Africa qualified for Super Sixes stage. Kenya eliminated.
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
  • Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sri Lanka were eliminated
  • England won the toss and elected to field.
  • India and Zimbabwe qualified for Super Sixes stage of tournament and England were eliminated.
  • Kenya won the toss and elected to field.

Pool B

  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Ricardo Powell (WI) made his ODI debut.
  • New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
  • Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.
  • Ian Stanger (Sco) made his ODI debut.
  • Scotland conceded 59 extras, the joint highest in an ODI.[3]
  • Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.
  • West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Greig Williamson (Sco) made his ODI debut.
  • Scotland were eliminated as a result of this match.
  • New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
  • Pakistan qualified for Super Six stage.
  • Australia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Australia needed to score 111 within 47.2 overs to qualify for the Super Six stage of the tournament. Australia qualified for the Super Sixes and Bangladesh were eliminated.
  • Ridley Jacobs (WI) became the first cricketer to carry his bat in a World Cup match.[4]
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
  • New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
  • New Zealand needed to score 122 within 21.2 overs to qualify for Super Sixes stage. New Zealand qualified for Super Sixes and West Indies were eliminated.

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.[5][6][7]

  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Rain interrupted play . No play was possible on reserve day for rain.
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • This was the first and only time two nations played at the world cup while officially at war.
  • Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
  • South Africa qualified for the semi-finals.
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • New Zealand qualified for the semi-finals and India were eliminated.
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Australia qualified for the semi-finals and Zimbabwe were eliminated.

Semi-finals

  • New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Pakistan qualified for the final for second time after 1992.
  • South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
  • 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.
  • Australia qualified for the final for fourth time after 1975, 1987 and 1996.

Final

  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Statistics

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,[9] experiments showed they were harder and swung more.[10]

Media

The host broadcasters for television coverage of the tournament were Sky and BBC Television.[11] In the UK, live games were divided between the broadcasters, with both screening the final live.[11] 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.[12]

References and notes

  1. ^ "Sourav Ganguly Doubtful About ICC's Plans To Host Cricket World Cup Every Three Years". Outlook. PTI. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Carlsberg ICC Trophy, Malaysia Headlines". Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Most extras in an ODI innings".
  4. ^ "Cricket World Cup 2019: Ferguson, Henry skittle Sri Lanka for 136". Cricket Country. June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  5. ^ "1999: When Pakistan and India went to war, on and off the field". 18 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  6. ^ "While Our Armies Battled In Kargil, India Faced Off Against Pakistan In A Do-Or-Die World Cup Game". 26 July 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  7. ^ "World Cup 1999: India and Pakistan put aside Kargil to battle on field". 8 February 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "The swinging Duke is not all it seams". The Independent. London. 9 May 1999. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Why white is the thing for swing". The Guardian. London. 14 May 1999.
  11. ^ a b ECB Media Release (10 March 1998). "Live coverage of the Cricket World Cup – to be staged in the UK next year". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  12. ^ "BSkyB lands England Test coverage". BBC. 15 December 2004. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

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