Cricket World Cup Trophy
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The Prudential Cups trophy were awarded to the winners of the World Cup from 1975-1983 when Prudential plc
Prudential plc
Prudential plc is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.Prudential's largest division is Prudential Corporation Asia, which has over 15 million customers across 13 Asian markets and is a top-three provider of life insurance in mainland China, Hong...

 was the primary sponsors. The trophies' designs changed when the sponsors changed until the 1999 World Cup. So the first three world cups had a similar trophy while 1987 (Reliance World Cup sponsored by Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered at Mumbai, India. The company operates through three business segments: petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas, other segment of the company includes textile, retail business, special economic zone development and...

), 1992 (Benson and Hedges Cup, sponsored by Benson and Hedges) and 1996 (Wills World Cup, sponsored by Wills
W.D. & H.O. Wills
W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer formed in Bristol, England. It was one of the founding companies of Imperial Tobacco.-History:...

, an ITC brand) had different trophies because of different sponsors until the International Cricket Council
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

 decided to award its own trophy.

The current trophy was created for the 1999 championships and is the first permanent prize in the tournament's history. The trophy was designed and produced in London
London
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 by a team of craftsmen from Garrard & Co
Garrard & Co
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 (the Crown Jewellers
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
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). The whole process was completed over a period of two months time.

ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy

The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy is presented to the winning team of the ICC Cricket World Cup.
The current trophy is 60 cm high, is made from silver
Silver
Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...

 and gold
Gilding
The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is described as "gilt"...

, and features a golden globe held up by three silver columns. The columns, shaped as stumps and bails, represents the three fundamental aspects of cricket: batting
Batting (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

, bowling
Bowling (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder...

 and fielding
Fielding (cricket)
Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position...

, while the globe characterises a cricket ball
Cricket ball
A cricket ball is a hard, solid leather ball used to play cricket. Constructed of cork and leather, a cricket ball is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level...

. It is designed with platonic dimensions
Platonic solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron that is regular, in the sense of a regular polygon. Specifically, the faces of a Platonic solid are congruent regular polygons, with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex; thus, all its edges are congruent, as are its vertices and...

, so that it can be easily recognised from any angle. The trophy weighs approximately 11 kilograms and has the names of the previous winners inscribed on its base. There is still room for another ten teams to have their name inscribed.

Status

The actual trophy is kept by the International Cricket Council
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

in it's offices in Dubai but a replica, which is identical in all aspects apart from the inscription of the previous champions, is awarded to the winning team and remains in their possession. The original trophy had the ICC logo on it, while the replica awarded to the team has the event logo. The 1999 trophy had the logo of the 1999 event, but the 2003 and 2007 trophies did not have the event logos, instead they had the logo of the ICC as present on the original trophy, so those 2 trophies were identical and could not be differentiated. However from the 2011 edition onwards, the idea of having the event logo on the inside of the columns of the World Cup Trophy was reinstated, this also gave rise to controversies after the 2011 event was completed as to whether the trophy given to the Indian Cricket Team was real or fake. However it was later on clarified that the correct trophy was handed over to the Indian Cricket Team.

Trophy Winners

Series number Year Team Trophy
Prudential Cup Trophy
1 1975
2 1979
3 1983
Reliance World Cup Trophy
4 1987
Benson and Hedges Cup Trophy
5 1992
Wills World Cup Trophy
6 1996
ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy
7 1999
8 2003
9 2007
10 2011
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