Cricket World Cup Winners by Year: 1975 to 2023

Australia has won six of the 13 men’s ODI Cricket World Cups, including the most recent in 2023. India and West Indies have won twice each. Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England complete the list with one title apiece.

Cricket World Cup winners and runners-up by year

The table covers the men’s 50-over World Cup. The first three editions used 60 overs per side; the tournament switched to 50 in 1987.

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Final result	Host / final venue	Winning captain
1975	West Indies	Australia	Won by 17 runs	England / Lord’s	Clive Lloyd
1979	West Indies	England	Won by 92 runs	England / Lord’s	Clive Lloyd
1983	India	West Indies	Won by 43 runs	England / Lord’s	Kapil Dev
1987	Australia	England	Won by 7 runs	India and Pakistan / Kolkata	Allan Border
1992	Pakistan	England	Won by 22 runs	Australia and New Zealand / Melbourne	Imran Khan
1996	Sri Lanka	Australia	Won by 7 wickets	Pakistan / Lahore	Arjuna Ranatunga
1999	Australia	Pakistan	Won by 8 wickets	England / Lord’s	Steve Waugh
2003	Australia	India	Won by 125 runs	South Africa / Johannesburg	Ricky Ponting
2007	Australia	Sri Lanka	Won by 53 runs (D/L)	West Indies / Bridgetown	Ricky Ponting
2011	India	Sri Lanka	Won by 6 wickets	India / Mumbai	MS Dhoni
2015	Australia	New Zealand	Won by 7 wickets	Australia / Melbourne	Michael Clarke
2019	England	New Zealand	Match and Super Over tied; boundary count	England / Lord’s	Eoin Morgan
2023	Australia	India	Won by 6 wickets	India / Ahmedabad	Pat Cummins

England’s 2019 entry needs the full wording. The final was not won by runs or wickets; both the 50-over match and Super Over were tied before the tournament’s boundary-count tiebreaker separated the teams.

World Cup titles by country

Six countries have won the men’s ODI World Cup. Australia owns almost half of all titles and is the only team to win three consecutive editions.

Team	Titles	Winning years	Finals
Australia	6	1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, 2023	8
India	2	1983, 2011	4
West Indies	2	1975, 1979	3
Pakistan	1	1992	2
Sri Lanka	1	1996	3
England	1	2019	4
New Zealand	0	—	2

South Africa has reached several semi-finals but no final. New Zealand is the only team to lose consecutive finals, in 2015 and 2019, without ever lifting the trophy.

1975 and 1979: West Indies sets the standard

West Indies won the first World Cup at Lord’s in 1975. Captain Clive Lloyd changed the final with 102 from 85 balls, lifting his side to 291 for 8. Australia was dismissed for 274 despite a late chase shaped by five run-outs.

Four years later, Viv Richards made an unbeaten 138 against England. West Indies scored 286 for 9, then Joel Garner took five wickets as England collapsed from 183 for 2 to 194 all out. The 92-run win completed the tournament’s first successful title defence.

1983: India overturns West Indies

India entered the 1983 final against a West Indies side chasing a third straight crown. It was dismissed for only 183 at Lord’s, a total that looked inadequate even on a difficult pitch.

India’s bowlers and fielders made it defendable. Kapil Dev’s running catch removed Viv Richards, and West Indies fell for 140. The 43-run upset transformed cricket’s commercial and cultural position in India.

1987 to 1996: three first-time champions

The 1987 tournament moved beyond England for the first time and reduced innings from 60 overs to 50. Australia beat England by seven runs in Kolkata, the narrowest run-margin in a men’s World Cup final.

Pakistan won in 1992 after recovering from a poor start to the tournament. Imran Khan’s 72 and Wasim Akram’s decisive spell carried it past England by 22 runs at the MCG.

Sri Lanka completed another first in 1996. Aravinda de Silva took three wickets and made an unbeaten 107 as Sri Lanka chased Australia’s 241 with seven wickets left. It remains Sri Lanka’s only men’s ODI World Cup title.

1999 to 2007: Australia’s three-title streak

Australia dominated three consecutive tournaments. Its 1999 final against Pakistan lasted only 59.1 overs in total: Shane Warne took 4 for 33, Pakistan was dismissed for 132, and Australia chased the target for two wickets.

Ricky Ponting then captained the 2003 and 2007 champions. His unbeaten 140 powered Australia to 359 for 2 against India in Johannesburg, setting up a 125-run win. Four years later Adam Gilchrist’s 149 drove a rain-shortened final victory over Sri Lanka.

Across those two Ponting-led campaigns, Australia did not lose a match. The streak from 1999 also made it the only country to win three World Cups in a row.

2011: India wins at home

India became the first team to win a World Cup final on home soil in 2011. Sri Lanka set 275 after Mahela Jayawardene’s unbeaten century, then removed Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar early.

Gautam Gambhir made 97 and MS Dhoni promoted himself to score an unbeaten 91. Dhoni finished the chase with a six, sealing a six-wicket win at Wankhede Stadium. India thereby added a second title 28 years after 1983.

2015: Australia beats New Zealand

The 2015 co-hosts met at the MCG. New Zealand’s unbeaten run ended abruptly when Mitchell Starc bowled Brendon McCullum in the first over, and the side was dismissed for 183.

Australia chased the target with seven wickets remaining. Michael Clarke made 74 in his final ODI, while Mitchell Starc finished the tournament as Player of the Series.

2019: a tie decided by boundary count

New Zealand made 241 for 8 at Lord’s. England also reached 241, helped by a late overthrow deflection off Ben Stokes’s bat, so the final went to a Super Over.

Both teams scored 15 in the extra over. The playing conditions then awarded the match to the team with more boundaries across the main match and Super Over: England had 26 to New Zealand’s 17. The ICC later replaced that rule with repeated Super Overs for future knockout ties.

The result remains officially a tied match with England declared champion under the tiebreaker. Calling it simply a one-run or one-boundary victory is inaccurate.

2023: Australia wins a sixth title

India entered the Ahmedabad final unbeaten and made 240 after being sent in. Australia slipped to 47 for 3 in reply, but Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne added 192.

Head made 137, becoming the seventh man to score a century in a men’s World Cup final. Australia reached 241 for 4 in the 43rd over to win by six wickets. Pat Cummins thereby captained the country to its sixth ODI crown.

How the World Cup has changed

The event began with eight teams, red balls, white clothing and 60-over daytime matches. It shifted to 50 overs in 1987, introduced coloured kits, white balls and floodlights in 1992, and has repeatedly changed its group format.

What has not changed is its status as the main global championship for ODI cricket. An ODI means One Day International, and the ODI full-form and rules guide explains its overs, powerplays and rain minimums.

The shorter eight-team ODI event has a separate history in our Champions Trophy winners list. For 20-over champions, use the T20 World Cup winners list, while domestic franchise winners are tracked in the IPL winners list and more tables live on the cricket records hub.