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Any time of any hour someone is playing cricket. It is an extremely popular game all around the world especially in countries like Australia, India and England. not only is cricket played in clubs and nationally but it has become sort of a culture in these countries, children grow up playing what is called 'backyard cricket' which is just cricket played in someone's backyard. Cricket is played VERY often.
Good Question. Cricket is the 2nd most popular sport in the world but there are only 12 major cricket- playing countries in the world and lots of smaller less-well-known countries that aren't broadcasted on Television.
The only person to have played both World Cup Football and World Cup Cricket is Viv Richards - Antigua at football and West Indies at cricket.
It is Vivian Richards from the West Indes. he played cricket and world cup qualifier for the island of Antigua.
The Australian player who played only one match in the 1996 cricket world cup was Craig McDermott. The match was held between Australia and Kenya on 23rd February in Vishakapatnam, India. Apparently, this was the last match which McDermott played in ODI cricket.
Sachin has played the following cricket world cups:-1992-1996-1999-2003-2007In all, he has played 5 world cups including 1 world cup final.
E C Joyce of Ireland
Cricket is more famous. Baseball is only played league wise whereas cricket is played between countries. England and Australia are well known countries and both have cricket as their national sport. The U.S is a huge country and there are baseball fans widespread but no big population follows it any where near Europe or Asia
The only person to have competed in a Cricket World Cup tournament as well as a football World Cup is Viv Richards - he played for West Indies in cricket and Antigua for football
There were only 13 countries that year.13 countries played in the first world cup
Sir Vivian Richards played in 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987 Cricket world cups for West Indies.He also played international football for Antigua, appearing in the qualifying matches for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
there are about 11 world cups played in the history of tournamentsstarting from the 1975,1979,1983,1987,1992,1996,1999,2003,2007,2011, and last was played in year 2015 and won by australia and they have won 5 times