Interesting Facts About World Cup Cricket 2019

•  ICC World Cup Cricket 2019 will begin on 30 may and ends on July 14, 2019. 
•  England and Wales are the hosting countries.
•  It is the 12^th edition of cricket world cup. England and Wales to host 2019  World Cup Cricket.
• England is the only country who going to  host  World Cup for 5th times. It hosted in 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1999.
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•  Lord’s to host ICC World Cup Final for the 5^th time. It is the most hosted world cup final   venue in the history.
•  2019 World cop will be first world cup when at least one test playing nation will be missing as Ireland, Zimbabwe did not qualify in the championship.
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• This is  first time  West Indies team failed to qualify directly for a Cricket world cup event. Windies played ICC world cup qualifier to play 2019 world cup.
•  Zimbabwe will be missing ICC world cup for the first time since 1983.
•  The CWC19 trophy is 11 kilograms in weight which is approximately 24.25 pound. The height of cricket world cup trophy is 650 mm.
•  Australia became the first country to win three consecutive world cup tournament in 2007.
•  Clive Lloyd of West Indies (In 1975 and 1979) and   Ricky Ponting of Australia (In 2003 and 2007)  are the only captains to win world cup twice.
•  Indian bowler Chetan Sharma was the first person to took a hat-trick in the world cup cricket in 1987.
• 47 year old  Nolan Clarke of the Netherlands was the oldest player to play in the world cup in the 1996 (47years and 257 days).
• Only 5 countries won the world cup cricket so far:  Australia won 5 times, India 2 times, West Indies 2 times, Pakistan and Sri Lanka each one time.
• India is the only country who won  both 50 overs and 60 overs world cup (1983 and 2011).
•  Only 10 teams qualifying for this year world cup because tournament size is bigger.
•  There are no associate member nations teams will be playing in this world cup.
• Afghanistan is the only new team in this world cup.