🏏 Cricket

Cricket is the world's second-most-followed sport — a billion-strong game whose heartlands are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Australia, England and South Africa, with an audience stretching from Afghanistan to the Pacific islands. Its two flagship events are the ICC Cricket World Cup (50-over, every four years) and the ICC T20 World Cup (twenty overs a side). This page keeps the settled facts of both and a plain-English guide to how the game is actually played.

The most successful 50-over nations

Australia leads with 6 titles; India (2007, 2013, 2024) leads the T20 roll with 3.

Where to go next

🏆 Every Cricket World Cup final, 1975 to today  ·  ⚡ Every T20 World Cup champion  ·  📘 How the game is played

Nearly two billion people first fell for cricket through a radio or a television in the last fifty years — the TV series collection carries the shows the world watched alongside it, and football's World Cup record sits next door.