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    "title": "Trivia and Facts 1975",
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    "editor1": "<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The 1975 Cricket World Cup&nbsp;was the first edition of the International Cricket Council&#39;s (ICC) Cricket World Cup. It was held from 7 to 21 June 1975 in England.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Teams<\/strong> - 6 Test playing teams (Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan &amp; West Indies) and 2 associate nations (Sri Lanka &amp; East Africa). The preliminary matches were played in 2 groups of 4 each. The top two teams from each group then played the knock-out rounds of semi-finals and final.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color:#008080;\"><strong>ICC 1975 World Cup<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The first world cup was officially known as Prudential World Cup as the tournament was sponsored by Prudential Assurance Company&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Glenn Turner scored the highest individual score of 1975 world cup. he scored 171* against East Africa <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Glenn Turner scored the most runs in the world cup - 333 <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Garry Gilmour (Australia) tops the wickets tally - 11 <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">H D Bird &amp; T W Spencer were the umpires in the final of 1975 world cup <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Clive Llyod (West Indies) was awarded man of the match for his brilliant batting and captainship <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Madan Lal (India) bowled the first ball of the World Cup Denis Amiss (England) scored the first century of World cup <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">India beat East Africa by 10 wickets. It was the first 10 wickets victory of any team in world Cup. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">All the matches were of 60 overs per team <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Final of the first World Cup was played at &#39;Lords&#39;. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Garry Gilmour produced the best bowling figures of 6\/14 against England in the semi-final<\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Highest partnership for any wicket was between Rick McCosker and Alan Turner. The partnership added 182 runs for the first wicket against Sri Lanka <\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Highest team score was made by England against India. England made 334\/4 in 60 overs in the opening match of world cup.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n",
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