World Cup (cricket): 1975

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.

Fascinating facts about World Cups

Author: MS Ramakrishnan, Bangalore, Thu, Jan 22 2015 CricBuzz 1 <>CricBuzz 2 <>CricBuzz 3 <>CricBuzz 4 <>CricBuzz 5

1975: A livid spectator pleaded with Indian batsmen The inaugural World Cup was held in 1975. The first match in that competition was one of the most controversial one-day innings of all time. Frustrated by India's slow approach in their mammoth chase of 335, a spectator rushed onto the field and pleaded with the Indian batsmen to show some aggression. Sunil Gavaskar, who scored an unbeaten 36 (off 174-balls), later claimed that he thought the target was unachievable and decided to take some match practice.

1975: Sri Lankan Tamils protest against political oppression During Sri Lanka's clash against the Aussies at the Oval in the 1975 World Cup, a group of Sri Lankan tamils invaded the field and lay down on the pitch, holding banners protesting against political oppression, before being cleared off the ground.

See also

World Cup (cricket): history <>World Cup (cricket): 1975 <>World Cup (cricket): 1979 <>World Cup (cricket): 1983 <>World Cup (cricket): 1987 <>World Cup (cricket): 1992 <>World Cup (cricket): 1996 <>World Cup (cricket): 1999 <>World Cup (cricket): 2003 <>World Cup (cricket): 2007 <>World Cup (cricket): 2011 <>World Cup (cricket): 2015