Cricket World Cup won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's. The 1979 World Cup saw the introduction of the ICC Trophy competition to select non-Test playing teams for the World Cup, with Sri Lanka and Canada qualifying. The West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts England by 92 runs in the final. At a meeting which followed the World Cup, the International Cricket Conference agreed to make the competition a quadrennial event. The 1983 event was hosted by England for a third consecutive time. By this stage, Sri Lanka
1996 Cricket World Cup statistics 1996 Cricket World Cup statistics This is a list of statistics for the 1996 Cricket World Cup. The following table lists the ten highest team scores during this tournament. This is a list of completed innings only, low totals in matches with reduced overs are omitted except when the team was all out. Successful run chases in the second innings are not counted. The top ten highest run scorers (total runs) in the tournament are included in this table. This table contains the top ten highest scores of the tournament made by a batsman in a single innings. ! !Player