Cup facts
The 1992 World Cup, the fifth cricket World Cup, was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. It began with a match between the hosts in Auckland on 22 February and continued till 25 March.
A total of 39 matches were played over 33 days.
The teams taking part were Pakistan, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, West Indies, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
Unlike the previous editions, there were no groups. Instead all the nine teams played each other once in a league phase, with the top four going through to the semifinals.
This was the first time the day-night matches were played under lights. Consequently, it was the first Cup to feature players in coloured uniforms, and the first to be played with white balls. There were two white balls per innings, one for each end.
Sri Lanka played Zimbabwe in the match of the minnows. Zimbabwe recorded the highest total of the tournament, making 312 in the first innings. It was soon to be the second highest as Sri Lanka chased the total down with 4 balls to spare, scoring 313.
The highest individual innings of the Cup belonged to Rameez Raja, who scored an unbeaten 119 against New Zealand in Christchurch on March 18.
Martin Crowe was the highest run-scorer of the tournament with 456 runs (one 100, four 50s). Javed Miandad was in second place with 437 runs (five 50s).
Wasim Akram took the 18 wickets, the highest for the 1992 World Cup, and joint highest with Roger Binny (1983) and Craig McDermott (1987). Ian Botham was second on the list with 16.
South African fast-medium bowler Meyrick Pringle had figures of four wickets for eleven runs with four maidens from eight overs, the best bowling analysis of the 1992 World Cup.
Pakistan beat England in the final by 22 runs at Melbourne on 25 March. Wasim Akram was Man-of-the-Match for his 18-ball 33 and 3-49.
87,182 people watched the final in Melbourne, paying two million dollars.
