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1. The first world cup was held in 1975 in England.
2. The first three world cups were held in England.
3. The first time day/night matches was used was in 1992.
4. The first hat-trick at the World Cup was by Indian Chetan Sharma in a game against New Zealand in 1987
5. Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar batted through the entire first innings of a match at the first Cricket World Cup, scoring 36 runs in 60 overs.
6. At the first four World Cups, all players wore the traditional white uniform and red balls were used.
7. The only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket is Viv Richards - Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket.
8. Anderson Cummins is only the second player to represent two different teams in the World Cup (West Indies 1991-92 and Canada 2007). The other is Kepler Wessels who played for Australia in 1983 and for South Africa in 1991-92. A close call was Graeme Hick, who played for England in 1991-92, 1995-96 and 1999, and was in the Zimbabwe squad for the 1983 World Cup but did not get a game.
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10. Sri Lanka, who co-hosted the 1996 Cricket World Cup, is the only host to win the tournament (although the final was played in Pakistan)
11. The first tournament to use white cricket balls and colored team uniforms was 1992.
12. The first tournament to feature an African Test nation, South Africa, was in 1992.
13. The first tournament held in the Southern hemisphere was 1992, when it was co-hosted in Australia and New Zealand.
14. The first team to remain undefeated throughout the whole tournament was Australia in 2003. They repeated this feat in the 2007 tournament.
15. The first hat-trick plus one (4 wickets in 4 balls) was by Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga against South Africa (Super Eights: South Africa v Sri Lanka at Providence, Mar 28, 2007)
16. The first recorded cricket international was played between the United States and Canada in September 1844.
17.  The original Cricket World Cup was not known as a ‘World Cup’, but was instead called the Prudential Cup. Many regard the 1992 tournament as the first ‘real’ Cricket World Cup, as it was the first tournament to feature South Africa.
18. Viv Richards, the legendary West Indian batsman, played in both the Cricket and Football World Cups, representing Antigua in the Football World Cup.
19. Kepler Wessels played for Australia in the 1983 Cricket World Cup, before joining South Africa for the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
20. Herschel Gibbs became the first man in the history of One Day International cricket to hit six sixes in an over when he achieved this feat playing for South Africa against the Netherlands in 2007.
21. Australia is also the only country to win three consecutive Cricket World Cups. They won the tournament in 1999, 2003 and 2007.