While we are enjoying the 13th edition of ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup happening in India. Here are some interesting facts about this event.
- The Final of 2023 world cup will be the 500th match of the main events of all the ICC Men’s Cricket world cups put together.
- 20 teams have played this tournament at least once where in Australia has played the maximum number of matches followed by New Zealand
- There are only 9 teams who have reached Semi Finals of any ICC Men’s cricket world cup. This includes West Indies, India, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya but only 7 teams have reached the Finals and 6 teams have won the tournament.
- Australia and NewZealand both have entered Semi Finals 8 times, where Australia has won 7 out of 8 and New Zealand has won only 2 making it to Finals.
- India has reached Semi Finals 7 times, making it to Finals 3 times and winning the title twice
- England has played 4 Finals till date where they have lost 3 of them
- South Africa has made it to Semi Finals 4 times but has lost all 4 matches
- The count is as follows:
| Team | Semi Finalist | Finalist | Winner | Runner Up |
| West Indies | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| India | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Australia | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| England | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| New Zealand | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| South Africa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kenya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |